Marta Granda Nistal and Gonzalo Coello de Portugal founded Binom in 2010 after having led on architectural projects whilst working for practices in the UK, Spain and USA. Since then, their projects at Binom have included ephemeral installations and exhibitions, private houses, residential blocks, office fit-outs, as well as cultural spaces.  The practice has also worked on shop interiors and completed its first restaurant. Many of Binom’s project involve listed buildings integrating period features in the designs.

Binom’s clients range from public authorities to entrepreneurs to private individuals and families. The architects are interested in how the buildings can ground a client’s vision in physical form and how the team can make the most of each site. Other important considerations, such as climate, topography, sense of place, well-being and sustainability inform the practice’s approach.

At Binom, digital processes are combined with high standards of craftsmanship.  Attention to detail from concept to completion is essential to the practice’s design ethos.  This is supported by the team’s practical ability in understanding how buildings are made together with Binom’s methodological approach to running projects. 

This combination of technical and organisational expertise with a poetic disposition to architecture is at the heart of how Binom think about the design process.  Research too is important to the studio’s way of working, be it focussed on a building’s environmental or social context or a specific technical resolution.