"FAR"

FAR. Architecture studio founded by Francisco Arévalo and María del Rocío Acedo Ramiro.

Francisco Arévalo is an architect who graduated in 1994 from the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid. Before finishing his degree, he received First Prize in the international student competition of the prestigious British institution RIBA. He appears in numerous national and international competitions, managing to be a finalist in most of them with mentions and second prizes. He began his professional career in the fourth year of his degree, working as a collaborator in Alberto Campo Baeza's studio between 1989 and 1994, participating intensely in competitions, basic projects, and execution projects (schools, libraries, homes, etc.). He highlights the First Prize in the national ideas contest of the Central Office of the General Savings Bank of Granada.

In his early years as an architect, he collaborated with prestigious Spanish architects such as Javier Carvajal Ferrer and Jesús Aparicio Guisado, also working at the British studio Broadway Malyan in Madrid and at the developer Fadesa in La Coruña. Since the year 2000, he has collaborated as an architect with Rafael de La-Hoz arquitectos and has worked as a design director and project team. As an architect at Rafael de La-Hoz, he has given various conferences and round tables, in addition to collaborating with the European University of Madrid.

He has participated in numerous national and international competitions, projects, and works, from the initial concept to the follow-up of the work. Highlights:
 

María del Rocío Acedo Ramiro is an Architect who graduated in 1992 from the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid. As a student, she works in José Manuel Sanz's studio developing the competition for the new San Fernando de Henares Town Hall. In sixth grade, she started working at Fernando Calderón's Acoustics Studio. After finishing her degree, she carried out university postgraduate studies: University Master's Degree in Project Management and Concessions at the Antonio Camuñas Foundation in Madrid; Master's degree in Installations, Efficiency, Qualification, and Energy Audit at the European University of Madrid; Master in BIM Manager.

In her own studio, he develops projects and works for single-family homes and the Milenio nightclub in Ciudad Real, a 2,000-m² work with a 22-meter-span mobile roof. Subsequently, she works as the head of a studio making residential buildings in the Pasillo Verde in Madrid, and as a technical director at NETAI, she develops projects and works for BBVA Real Estate. She works in renovations for the López-Brea real estate agency in Madrid. She highlights the rehabilitation of the Edificio de la Unión and the Fénix in Virgen de los Peligros in Madrid. Postgraduate studies make it possible to work in large multinationals such as Jacobs Engineering, Lend Lease, Sener, and Occidental Hoteles. With these companies, she manages to lead projects and works such as:

 

Since 2017, he has worked at the state-owned company SIEPSE as head of the Building and Facilities Department, managing projects for Penitentiary Centers of up to 100,000 m² (Ceuta, Málaga, Valencia, Murcia, Soria, San Sebastián) and State Security buildings, highlighting :