HET Energy Accumulator

Malmö Stadion, built for the 1958 World Cup, is to be demolished. Its concrete and cladding are taken down, sorted and rebuilt as the skin and stair of a new energy tower: 540 façade cassettes and 28 flights of reused steps, holding around 500 tonnes of CO₂ that would otherwise be emitted making them again. Seen across the reeds, the façade carries the stadium's own grid.

Authors: Javi Barriuso Domingo, Carlos Ramos
Collaborators: Holst Engineering
Images: Zumo Digital

Echoes of the City

For twenty-five years Mogens Falk-Sørensen (1907–1975) photographed Copenhagen for the City Archives. The exhibition is built from the same city, one layer further down: paving stones lifted from inner-city pavements, pink granite kerbs, marble mosaic from Amalienborg and crushed asphalt, all from the municipal material yard on Selinegade. Nothing is cut or fixed. When the exhibition closes, the stone goes back to the yard to be used again.

Authors: Javi Barriuso Domingo, Martin Ransby, Anders Gerning
Images: Kim Holtermand

Astruptunet Visitor Centre

Visitors reach Astruptunet by bus, boat, car, bicycle and on foot, arriving from opposite ends of the site. The visitor centre gives them one beginning. A light timber structure with a sloping roof rests on a solid base, turned 45 degrees to the site. From land it reads as a low pavilion half taken in by the trees; from the lake it shows its full height. The footprint is small and the timber is reclaimed. The rest of the site stays as it was.

Authors: Javi Barriuso Domingo, Carlos Ramos
Images: Afterreal, Andre Sashko

Örebro Stadspark

Georg Arn's 1933 plan made the park a sequence of rooms. The proposal becomes the garden's edge, drawn between the path along the Svartån and the stillness inside. A rammed-earth wall of unfired local soil holds the low western sun and extends the season by weeks. Beside it runs a pergola of reclaimed timber, brick and stone from the municipal depot, every column joined by the same steel collar. The timber frame stores 12 kg CO₂ per m², where a conventional build would emit around 100.

Authors: Javi Barriuso Domingo
Images: Brøn Studio

Det Maritime Skolehjem

Øresund Hospital has stood in Helsingør since 1938. One precise roof extension frees the whole plan, improves structure, proportion and durability at once, and keeps 206 tonnes of embodied CO₂ in the building. Facing the city, the new community house is single-storey and fully biobased: timber frame, reclaimed brick, wood-fibre insulation and no concrete foundations. Keep what already carries. Build the rest light, from things that have grown.

Authors: Javi Barriuso Domingo
Collaborators: Overbyen Arkitekter, Toast, Detblå
Images: Zumo Digital, Andre Sashko

Lindevej 21

The extension starts from the existing house: yellow brick in Koch bond, a steep 45° roof and white-painted timber windows, so the new part settles into the street. AI visualisations let us test materials and proportions quickly against both street and garden. The precise images made the dialogue with the municipality concrete and helped secure the permit despite stricter conservation requirements.

Authors: Javi Barriuso Domingo
Images: Brøn Studio

Hemmesta Water Tower

In suburban areas public institutions are scarce, and it is easy to lose a sense of belonging. The proposal gives Värmdö a civic symbol, a sun or moon rising between the trees. The tower is among the first to build in prefabrication and circularity from the start, using low-carbon concrete elements that can be taken apart and reused.

Authors: Javi Barriuso Domingo, Carlos Ramos
Images: Yannis Amasri Sierra

Urnes World Heritage Centre

Urnes Stave Church is reached on foot, up a slope, through an orchard tended for centuries. The building reworks the existing path into a hairpin that joins two levels at a gentle, accessible gradient. Set partly into the hillside, it reads as a fold in the ground. Below lies the heritage centre; above, the roof becomes Urneshagen, an extension of the orchard to sit and look out before the last stretch to the church.

Authors: Javi Barriuso Domingo, Victor Lacima, Gonzalo Rivas Zinno
Images: Gonzalo Rivas Zinno and Brøn Studio

DUNE, Chart Art Fair Pavilion

An abstract greenhouse in the courtyard of Kunsthal Charlottenborg: a frame of untreated timber, a skin of plastic film, and inside a dune of white sand to sit on. A fair lasts four days, so the question was what the pavilion becomes afterwards. The plastic came as surplus from Spanish greenhouses and left as handbags sewn by Studio Soriano in Nørrebro. The soap-treated timber went on to another of our projects.

Authors: Barila: Brøn Studio (Javi Barriuso, Anders Fønss), VLA (Victor Lacima), GRZA (Gonzalo Rivas)
Collaborators: Studio Soriano
Images: Joakim Züger / Barks Projects

Sjællandsgade

Two apartments joined into one home for a young family. The staircase is the most significant element of a long process with fire and structural documentation: 15 risers of 199.3 mm in Danish Douglas fir, finished with linseed oil and fixed with stainless steel. Ordinary materials, carefully treated and assembled.

Authors: Javi Barriuso Domingo

Festival Cruïlla

The Occident stage becomes an instrument. Flexible aluminium tubes of different diameters hang in the depth of the scaffold like organ pipes, or like the fly curtains of a house by the sea, catching the crowd's movement and the colours of the light show. Beer kegs act as counterweights. The whole system comes apart, and every component returns to the building trade afterwards.

Authors: Javi Barriuso Domingo
Images: Brøn Studio

Autopoul

A former workshop in Nordvest turned into a lively corner for the neighbourhood, despite a tight budget, fire safety demands and restrictive planning. A standard portable structure activated the front yard without altering the building's approved conditions from 1961, and an exemption allowed the yard to become a terrace. The industrial interiors hosted performances and events.

Authors: Javi Barriuso Domingo, Anders Fønss
Images: Niels Ulrik

Can Ferraters

A 19th-century kitchen in a listed house, made usable without being changed. Instead of building modern equipment into the room, we hid it in three new free-standing objects placed among the existing ones, readable as furniture or as ornament. The palette comes from the site: reclaimed white Spanish marble, dark green lacquered metal and dark green linoleum.

Authors: Javi Barriuso Domingo

Gladsaxe for Generations

Høje Gladsaxe sits at the edge of the city: culture, work and social life happen elsewhere, distances are sized for cars, and the flats are locked into load-bearing concrete panels. The proposal adds flexible rooms that neighbours can book for guests, work or gatherings, alongside homes that cannot adapt on their own. Underused garages are swapped for the public programmes that used to sit at the estate's edges and become small plazas, and the large parking areas are re-naturalised into a green public strip broken down into human-scale clusters.

Authors: Javi Barriuso Domingo, Carlos Ramos, Anders Fønss
Images: Brøn Studio

P-hus 3.02

Nordhavn is changing fast, and its industrial and maritime past risks disappearing with it. The parking house is designed in the spirit of the port's warehouses, ferry terminals and ships. One simple motif carries it: the awning, made by bending the metal skin of the façade. It recalls sails, the lightness of maritime structures and the cantilevers of harbour buildings, and through repetition it turns the façade into a silhouette rather than a finish.

Authors: Javi Barriuso Domingo
Images:Brøn Studio