Atelier Obra designs homes, cultural buildings and workplaces, from the first site visit to the last snag. Eighteen architects and interior designers in one studio.
A disused salt store turned into four top-lit galleries and a public courtyard. The original brick walls stay, a new sawtooth roof brings north light into every room.
Read the project“Start with the site. Keep what is already there if it still works. Spend the budget where people touch the building every day.”
We walk the site at different times of day before drawing anything, and the plan follows the light and the slope.
More than half our projects keep an existing structure. It is usually cheaper and always lower in embodied carbon.
Handles, stairs, window seats. The parts you use every day get the most drawing time.
Appoint us for one stage or the whole project. Fees are quoted per stage, so you can pause after planning.
Site visit, brief and what the budget can realistically buy.
Two or three directions, drawn and modelled, narrowed to one.
Detailed design and the planning application, with consultants.
Construction drawings, specification and builder tender.
Site visits through construction, then snagging and a one-year review.
Founded by Marta Ibáñez and Kwame Asante in 2011. Every project is led by a director and run by the same architect from first sketch to handover.
An address and a rough idea is enough. We reply within three working days and the first site visit is free within 40 miles of the studio.