Víctor Bouman is part of a generation of architects who have turned simplicity into a form of precision and made the landscape their main ally. An architect trained at the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB, 2016), his work today unfolds between Girona and the Costa Brava, where he designs quiet, compact homes that are deeply attentive to the climate and to the real lives of those who inhabit them.
After finishing his studies in Barcelona, Bouman moved to London to work at PTEarchitects, getting involved in large-scale housing projects that allowed him to understand the city through repetition, density and the social responsibility of residential design. When he returned in 2016, he joined several practices in Terrassa, especially RGA arquitectes, where he delved into timber construction systems and into a way of designing in which construction detail and material efficiency go hand in hand. This journey, between the large London scale and small-scale work in Catalonia, gradually shaped a precise way of looking at how everyday comfort is constructed.
In 2020 he founded Bouman Arquitectura, a studio based in Girona and Llançà (Costa Brava) that is defined above all by a calm, straightforward and honest way of working. From these two bases, urban yet very close to the territory, the studio works with private clients and developers on new-build projects, refurbishments, interior design, retail and landscape, guided by a clear thread: creating spaces that are easy to live in, quiet and sustainable, where architecture does not impose itself on life but supports it discreetly.
His work could be described as an ongoing conversation with place. Each project begins with a careful reading of topography, orientation, climate and built memory, based on the idea that it is the surroundings—urban or natural—that should influence architecture, and not the other way around. Hence his preference for contained volumes, compact floor plans, pitched roofs that speak to the rural landscape and the use of natural, sustainable, locally sourced materials that reduce environmental impact and age with dignity.
At Bouman Arquitectura every decision is guided by a double gaze: that of the planet and that of the people who will inhabit the space. This explains the emphasis on energy efficiency, reduced emissions and natural materials, but also on the right temperature, carefully worked light, silence and that hard‑to‑name sense of comfort you feel when you walk through the door and everything seems to be in its place. His projects do not seek to dazzle on a first visit, but to sustain over time a relationship of trust with their inhabitants, like those houses that, over the years, become part of the landscape until they seem as though they have always been there.
At a time when architecture often swings between spectacle and hyper‑technification, Víctor Bouman’s trajectory points to another path: a calm, close‑to‑home architecture that looks to the future through the humility of resources and the intensity of place. A practice rooted in Girona and the Costa Brava, yet in dialogue with a global concern: how to live better, consuming less and caring for what sustains us.