Ana Sara Hidalgo Peregrín, Jesús Barranco Sanfrancisco. JAO Arquitectura

JAO Arquitectura is an architecture studio founded and directed by Ana Sara Hidalgo Peregrín and Jesús Barranco Sanfrancisco since 2013-2014, based in Almería.

Ana Sara Hidalgo Peregrín holds a degree in Architecture from the Alfonso X El Sabio University. She specialized in Interior Design with the International Master's Degree "Master in Interior Design and Architecture" from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM).

Jesús Barranco Sanfrancisco holds a degree in Architecture from the Alfonso X El Sabio University, with a Diploma for the best academic record of his class (2008). He specialized in Collective Housing with the International Master's Degree "Master in Collective Housing" from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM).

As a young studio, its concerns focus on a phase of continuous learning in order to find the necessary certainties demanded by Architecture, the world of knowledge and ideas.

The studio seeks to highlight the work, the craft of architecture, and the knowledge slowly acquired in its practice and developed over time.
They believe in good architecture, even when/where it is not in demand, that which generates dialogue, connection, emotion, exchange, interest..., that which moves away from mere appearance.

Practice, Dissemination, and Research are the studio's three areas of focus.
Processes: ideas, practice, and design development methods, prior to the final result.
Tireless research in the pursuit of this knowledge, in the study of the Masters and their legacy.
Design as the ability to provide optimal responses to identified problems.
The line of thought that is formed, a critique that is always subject to revision, that evaluates us.
There is a great confrontation between "Practice" and "Theory," which we work to reconcile.

They understand Architecture as a "technical-artistic" discipline that responds to specific conditions and demands through the design of spaces and their integration into a specific physical, social, and political context (landscape) at a specific time.

They work on a wide variety of projects, regardless of scale or use, because behind all of them lies an opportunity to create Architecture.

Their intention is to create a strong commitment to the users and the project, seeking the best solution, the one that adapts to the needs presented, in time, economy, and form. Always seeking responses of high-level technical and graphic quality, providing added value beyond the immediate.