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“The universal is the local without the walls”
Miguel Torga ( 1907-1995)
At DDRA, we don’t just design projects, we bring your vision to life with precision, insight, and dedication. Specializing in architecture, consulting, and project management, we support our clients across key sectors such as research, technology, education, and industry.
We provide a personalized support unit for each project, ensuring smooth progress and the ability to anticipate both present and future needs. Our deep understanding of complex project environments, both operational and strategic, allows us to guide each initiative with clarity and adaptability.
Our strength lies in our ability to respond efficiently to critical challenges, enabling well-informed decisions and seamless execution. At DDRA, we don’t pursue our own vision, we commit to delivering yours, with careful attention to every detail to ensure a smooth landing and successful operational rollout.
Our most effective solutions emerge from close collaboration with our partners, combining strategic insight with innovative thinking. We turn initial data into long-term value, ensuring that every project delivers sustainable benefits for both the short and long term.
The act of building always calls upon the forces of nature.
We do not build without consequences for our environment.
The moment we act upon the land, we create new tensions within the existing landscape, shifting pressures to other spaces beyond the boundaries of the project.
In this demiurgic act, we set new movements into motion: fissuring, tearing open the earth, carving new pathways where water flows and soil is displaced. At times, we affect trees and living beings, reshaping the horizon itself.
The art of construction, entrusted to Humanity with a capital H, must in some way be an act of both constraint and repair, so that it may welcome this new impulse of life.
It is within this broad vision that we learn to grasp the environment in all its dimensions.
Building must be rooted in an approach of restoration.
How can we integrate our creations harmoniously and sustainably?
This question lies at the heart of our way of acting, guiding the following choices:
The architectural vision of the building,
The functionalities dictated by the program and its needs,
The materials selected and the interplay of atmospheres.
Thus, through the combined effort of the forces at play in the act of building, we will raise together a project that not only stands but also restores and rewards our environment.