En cumulolimbo studio hacemos arquitectura, interiorismo y diseño personalizados, investigación y experimentos materiales con espacios o artefactos desde la escala humana, el reciclaje y la sinergia ciudadana. Diseñamos y construimos espacios domésticos y urbanos que aporten felicidad y jueguen con las emociones y sentidos. Exteriores, interiores, pequeños objetos, escenografías, instalaciones, dinámicas, proyectos urbanos y cualquier otro experimento que nos permita abarcar el mundo desde muchas y diversas miradas.

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Last July Natalia was invited to participate in the conferences of the Summit on Upcoming Urbanism, directed by Willy Müller and Ariadna Cantís and organized by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia IAAC. The theme of the round table is a favorite for us: Public Space as a flexible platform, but other topics were also discussed with many other architects and designers of public space and specialists, including Salvador Rueda! It was an honor to share this summit with them and all the other participants.

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Conference selected for the International Congress on European Research in Architecture and Urbanism. The role of embodiment in the age of virtualization. Milan 19-22 June 2024. To the researchers who do not know this congress, just do not miss it next year, you can not miss it. Hundreds of amazing researchers with even better topics will come together in a city that changes every year.

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CumuloLimbo studio selected and published in this book by Álvaro Romero Sancho, Off- Architecture, which tries to analyse the figure of the architects and the limits he can reach nowadays.
Don’t miss it !

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We participated in the exhibition «The Architecture of Architects», organised by the Official College of Architects of Madrid (COAM). This exhibition aims to disseminate the architecture of Madrid and the work of architects, showing them as something close and useful to society.

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Natalia has had the pleasure of participating in the ETSAM doctoral meetings to talk about her research work carried out in New York, ‘’ Stands, domes and little houses. Architects activating common space in the Cultural Plaza, New York’.

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Natalia has been invited to the lecture series of the Seville School of Architecture for the Master of Projects, ‘Essays for a new urban habitat’ where we talked about the research on Affecting Spaces, networks, codes and architectural artefacts in the configuration of the ‘free city’ 1968-1975.

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Incredible workshop on the construction and assembly of travelling exhibition installations!
The school of Alcalá de Henares becomes the epicentre of creativity and innovation with the workshop of construction and assembly of exhibition installations during the week of Architecture. For several days, the students of the school have been creating this series of displays intended as a meeting between the schools of Alcalá and Granada.

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Fantastic news! Nuance magazine dedicates us a space in the section of visionary architectural firms that are revolutionising the landscape and working to promote sustainability and regeneration of spaces. We greatly appreciate this opportunity and recognition.

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Our cartography on the San Francisco communes published in the book published by Guerrilla cartography : ‘San francisco urban communes & the free city 1968-1972’.
You can have a look at it on the web !

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We have great news for you:  #EDA and #ROC have landed in another continent! This is really crossing borders, making a masterly leap to end up in Asia, even! Can you believe it?

These two projects have been featured in gooood magazine, based in Beijing (China), with two fantastic and vibrant publications on their website.

Many thanks to the whole gooood team for giving us the opportunity to go so far and for trusting in our work.

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Thank you so much to Elisabetta Donati de Conti, interviewer of the Salone del Mobile Milano, for granting us this interview! It is for us a huge honor to count on our poit of view, our way to undertand architecture, design, and to collaborate in the dissemination projects that put faith on a more sustainable and accessible architecture for everyone.

We encorage you to read the full interview, you will not regret it!

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#UPHouse keeps on going and does not stop crossing borders! Now you can find this project  published in France. This time it has sneaked not orther than in A vivre, as a paper publication in this fantastic magazine. We would like to thank the whole magazine staff for trusting us and promoting our work in susch a gently way.

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#UpHouse never stops giving us joy! We are happy that a media like ARQA has decided to choose our first work to continue to make itself known! Thank you very much for continuing to bet on us!

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Penny Craswell publishes our #Huellas project in her book «Reclaimed» about architectures that reuse and recycle. In this book she has worked with international teams with whom we share pages. We encourage you to take a look at this publication where the reused is put in value.

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We are very proud that our beloved #Hulu has been published in AD. We couldn’t be happier with this article that reflects so well the implications of making this small penthouse in the centre of Madrid. It was a project full of challenges that in the end resulted in a harmonious and unique space.

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#UPHouse continues to travel around the world and this time it has been featured in Elle Decoration in the Czech Republic. We love to see that our projects reach different audiences and that they are liked for their authenticity. Thank you very much for this great reception

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We couldn’t be more proud of this paper publication! Thanks to all the Abitare team for making #Hulu part of such a prestigious magazine and internationally known. After a lot of hard work, there’s nothing like seeing projects grow.

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#Hulu crosses borders and reaches France! We couldn’t be more thrilled that a magazine like A Vivre has chosen our little penthouse in the centre of Madrid. To be on the cover is a dream come true, thank you very much to the whole team!

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Our beloved #UpHouse never ceases to surprise us! Now you can also find it on Dezeen, and what an honor that it continues to make itself known in more media and at the same level as Dezeen! Thank you very much

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We are delighted that refurbishment and reuse projects are made known in print media such as Interiores. #UpHouse and #Huellas have reached all the newsstands thanks to Interiores to promote more sustainable and environmentally friendly projects using recycled materials and small building works.

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One of our latest projects, #Hulu, a small penthouse in the centre of Madrid, is being featured in the media as Afasia. We couldn’t be happier with the reception it’s getting, thanks to the Afasia team for making it possible!

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One of our first projects, #UPHouse, has taken a leap of screen to be broadcasted in the program TocToc TeleMadrid. We had a lot of fun in the recording! Thanks for this opportunity to all the TeleMadrid team, we were able to show details of the #UPHouse.

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So thrilled to announce that, one more year, one of our projects, this time the great #Hulu House, has been nominated for the 2021 ArchDaily’s Building of the Year Awards, thank you so much for always betting on us!

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After many years I am returning to my home university and Architecture school to talk about my professional and academic experience and trajectory. I will tell the new generations how exciting, a road of ups and downs but worthy, is to work as an independent architect. Thank you very much to the conference team of the School of Architecture of the University of Alcalá de Henares for having me in this great cycle of talks. It is an honor to return to where everything started!

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New Generations is a platform where you can get to know the vanguardist architecture of the 21st century. After a lot of effort #Huellas is released on its platform to talk about the challenges and possibilities of 19th century housing! Thank you very much for the opportunity!

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This November the UrbanBat Festival, The City Inside the House, will take place! We have had the opportunity to contribute our grain of sand thanks to the research of the community gardens of Loisaida, in New York and their identity as resilient spaces in the face of the urban impositions/opportunities derived from the COVID19. We are very grateful to participate in these open debates that deal with open urban debates.

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If there is a blog worth following to keep up to date with urban issues of participation and awareness, it is the Paisaje Transversal blog. So we can hardly believe that we have been able to contribute to it with the article «Resiliencia milenial en los jardines de Loisaida». It’s a great opportunity to claim the role of community gardens and their collective tools of self-production through platforms like this one!

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One of our latest projects, #Huellas, a small bourgeois interior house transformed to be lived under today´s living standards, is becoming well known in some media like Archello. Thanks to the whole team for making possible the diffusion of our work!

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We have started a collaboration with IMNA (Instituto Mutante de Narrativas Ambientales) in Matadero Madrid! We are happy to be able to participate in a project like this. Thank you very much for believing in us!

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Last June I was invited to prepare the workshop Ciudad Laboratorio that the team of Ciudad Contexto was organizing in collaboration with the UPV university of Valencia! It was an incredible experience where we explored new ways of living in collaboration and equity with students from all disciplines. Many thanks for having thought of us to explore the matter of housing equity !!

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We are very pleased to have published the catalogue of the #WeirdSpace workshop that we launched in collaboration with InjuveSpain. It was a cycle of workshops that explored the city through the production of dinners in rare spaces in Madrid.

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After a lot of work, I have been able to capture part of the research behind Loisaida in an article for the Arquia Foundation’s blog. Thanks to Arquia for giving me the opportunity to investigate more about the Loisaida neighborhood in New York.

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After much effort the #UPHouse project becomes known on numerous platforms, including the great magazine MiCasa! Thank you very much for the opportunity!

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Divisare has published the #UPHouse project!! We are so grateful for the good reception the project has had among the great architectural platforms.

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The #UPHouse Project has been published in Metalocus! Feeling so greatfull with this amazing architectural platform!

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So happy to announce that the incredible design journal Arquine has chosen to feature the #UPHouse Project !!

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The #UpHouse project has been nominated by ArchDaily platform for the Building of the Year Awards 2020!  So proud of our work 🙂

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It is a great honor to announce that the amazing design journal Dwell has featured the #UPProject !!

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I did not imagine that I was so excited that our #UpHouse work appeared in the magazine of the College of Architects of Madrid Coam. Historical, eternal, and unique I can say that I have shared publication with the greatest of architecture, which one day they also published in it and this is exciting .. Thanks to the proposal of the management team of the Federico Soriano Magazine, Pedro Urzaiz and Jacobo García-Germánde for persevering in the idea of an open and varied number, which groups diverse and contemporary initiatives of the Architecture of Madrid.

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This Wednesday, October 23, 2019, I was invited as a jury to the DS3 (BAS) midreview with the amazing architects and also professors Lina Toro, Elena Perez and Adam Bresnick, to the course of projects that professors Matan Mayer and Sandra Herrera take in the Segovia School of Architecture. As always, I had a great time as a fish in the water and I hope to have helped all the students who showed their projects. See you in the final jury!

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I am pleased to announce that, after many months of work, my research project has been awarded the New York Research Grant from the Arquia Foundation and the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts !! The spring semester of 2020 I will be doing field work to outline the project on the community gardens of Loisaida! More news soon!

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For those who feel like it … Here inside, among many wonders of other doctors and researchers, my second academic article appears! The article «Stands, domes and casitas. Architects as actuators of the common space in La Plaza Cultural, New York» is published in issue # 18 ARCHITECTURES AL MARGEN of the magazine Progreso, project, architecture #PpA, directed by Amadeo Ramos Carranza.⁠ #orgullito de #friki!

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This is the catalog of the ECOVISIONARIOS exhibition, curated by Pedro Gadanho, 
Mariana Pestana and the Matadero Madrid team. Collaborating in the assembly of the 
#ecovisionarios expo has been the most !! Thanks to the great team of @ elii_architecture 
and @mataderomadrid for inviting me to contribute with my grain of sand in the experience of 
assembling the incredible work of @pinaryoldaas !! An adventure of watts, wood and mirrors ... 
in which the body feels the heat in its own skin. Thanks to Elii Arquitectura for inviting me to 
collaborate with such incredible professionals.
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The research project of the #institutomutante of environmental narratives and the #jardincyborg of
 @elii_architecture and @mataderomadrid hosted from June to October 2019 the works of resident 
artists and special guest works such as those of Rachel Amstrong whose execution I personally 
supervised. Thanks to @elii_architecture I was able to coordinate the construction of the Trace Hall 
of #RachelAmstrong and Rolph Huges together with @pierangeloscravaglieri and could not be more
 cool. The garden, that "hybrid place and evocative of relationships linked to desire and care" is 
deployed in the ship 16 of Matadero through the pieces of the artists uh513 (@imperdiblewoman 
and Alberto valverde) @otelhan, @we_are_takk, double happiness (@ jo.hwang and @feliz_nerea), 
@ robertina.sebjanic and @fito_conesa and the great team of Rachel Amstrong and Rolf Hughes.
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In February 2019, I was invited to give a lecture on my doctoral research within the framework of the Global Urban Humanities group, an interesting inter-initiative of the University of Berkeley, California. Many thanks to Susan Moffat for the invitation and to my fantastic advisor at Berkeley Greg Castillo for his invaluable help during the work.

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University of California  Berkeley, Center of Environmental Design

During the fall semester of 2018, I have been working and researching as a visiting scholar at University of California  Berkeley, Center of Environmental Design, at the Architecture Department and happily granted by Polytechnic University of Madrid. The research project #QueerSpatialities in San Francisco has highly progressed thanks to this stay. I have met amazing researchers and professors and conducted essential interviews for the work. We will be featuring more information of the research very soon .. so stay tuned !

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Deep Sectional Urbanism: An Alternative Proposal for Pier 70 in San Francisco.

I am so pleased to having contributed this fall semester 2018 to Rene Davids Design Studio at the Center of Environmental Design at University of California Berkeley. Amazing projects and amazing architecture Master students ! Looking forward for more !

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El proyecto Afectos y efectos del mayo parisino expuesto en Becoming, el pabellón español de la Bienal de Arquitectura de Venecia. Aquí un enlace a una visión 360 grados del pabellón !

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Porfín puede verse publicado el artículo Afecto y disidencia. Re-configuración y alternativas de espacio público en los jardines comunitarios de Loisaida, Nueva York en la fantástica revista académica Constelaciones.

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El proyecto The Slum Incubator sobre los jardines comunitarios de Nueva York ha obtenido una MENCIÓN DE HONOR en el concurso ARQUIA INVESTIGACIÓN 2017.

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El proyecto Weird Space ha resultado beneficiario de las Ayudas de creación Joven del Ministerio de cultura y Educación. Estamos muy contentas !

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Nos vamos a CORK !! Ya está todo listo para el workshop que vamos a coordinar junto a Stephen Folley en la Universidad de Arquitectura de Cork, Irlanda. 

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Nuestra propuesta FINALISTA del concurso Arquine Mextropoli 2016 ya está publicada en Arquine Convoca !!

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Feliz de poder coordinar el workshop UNDERCOVER  junto a este equipazo y en colaboración con la Univerisdad de Milán en la Bienal de Venecial.

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Desde el 22 al 29 de Febrero estaremos mosrando el fantástico trabajo de curso de los alumnxs de la Unidad Soriano, de la Escuela de Arquitectura de Madrid en la EXPOSICIÓN Arquitectura Dispuesta en CENTRO CENTRO en Madrid, comisariada por Marta Pelegrín y Fernando Pérez.