We work in the gap between two walls.

Adarve is an architecture studio based in Seville, founded in 2014. We work on what already stands: cortijos in the sierra, courtyard houses in historic centres, plots with awkward orientations. The conversation with what is already built is the start of every project, not the obstacle.

Our language is contemporary and pared-down, but anchored in the Andalusian building tradition. We work with lime, rammed earth, solid brick, Macael marble, chestnut, reclaimed hydraulic tile. What we add doesn't imitate the old and doesn't hide from it: the new declares when it was made.

We are obsessed with light. How it enters, how it filters, how it works with the heat of the south. How a courtyard tunes the day. How a well-resolved orientation makes half of the devices that now populate houses unnecessary.

We take on a handful of projects a year. Few, slowly, with care. One residential refurbishment, an occasional new build, sometimes a facility or interior. The choice is deliberate: the studio's pace is the pace of work done well.