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About

Miguel Amado Arquitectos, in its architectural creation exercise, reveals spaces where the site, man and culture, arise in a harmony that is supported in the reinterpretation of the program and in the requirement, that sustainability puts to the conception of interventions in planning, urbanism and architecture.

The Miguel Amado Arquitectos, develops a practice of Architecture with a great component of research. The development of knowledge and methodologies for the sustainability of the built environment as reflects on is plans and architectural projects.

The approach is based on the integration of sustainability principles with the cultural issues and environmental parameters as well as economic aspects. The interdisciplinary approach facilitates novel and dynamic collaboration between architects; engineers and the theory and historic criticism in a common interface platform of design and technology.

The custom of a regenerative research process allows to connect housing problems with public and private programs; rehabilitation and regeneration of informal areas in special in developing countries without forget the importance of the access to utilities in rural areas.

Practice

Miguel Amado Arquitectos has is intervention in Architecture, Planning, Urban design and Design.

Since 1988 the studio has added a team of architects, engineers and sustainability consultants, with relevance on sustainable construction, bioclimatic architecture, energy efficiency, renewable energies and post-occupation evaluation.

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Architecture

"Creating the geometries that define and sculpt forms and volumes is the fundamental role of architecture"

Miguel Amado

Miguel Amado Arquitectos develops is architectural practice on the development of cultural answers for human activities of the nature. The design is based on the historic theory as an approach with sustainability to assume a coherent response to sociocultural and economic aspects of the architecture. This interdisciplinary approach facilitates novel and dynamic collaboration between architects and engineers at the interface of design and technology to answer in a efficient way to the program of clients. Also, the work in the definition of housing programs; rehabilitation and regeneration of informal areas is one of the main domains of study and applied research. The creation of places to live and work is core in the work of MAA.

Urban Design and Planning

"Understanding the importance of giving shape to society thyough urban design and planning might appear so fundamental as to not require clarification"

Miguel Amado

Miguel Amado Arquitectos conducts is practice on the development of knowledge and methodologies for the sustainability of the built environment through the Urban Planning and Urbanism. The approach is based on the integration of sustainability principles and environmental parameters as well as sociocultural and economic aspects in spatial planning, urban design and urbanism. This interdisciplinary approach facilitates novel and dynamic collaboration between architects and engineers at the interface of design and technology to answer in an efficient way to the program of clients. Also, the work in the definition of housing programs; rehabilitation and regeneration of informal areas in development countries is at present one of the main focuses of study and applied research.