Estudio Boira was founded in Madrid in 2019 from the friendship and intellectual affinity between Berta Otero Pérez and Rocío Anós Población, architects trained at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM). Coming from different professional paths, both shared a common understanding of architecture as a balance between space, use and restrained emotion.

Before establishing the studio, Berta Otero developed her professional career in Madrid, working in studios specialised in retail projects, while Rocío Anós worked in London within a practice focused on cultural architecture. Two different contexts that, rather than setting them apart, helped to consolidate a shared language rooted in attention to detail, compositional clarity and an idea of beauty linked to harmony.

Boira is thus shaped as a studio focused on residential projects—comprehensive refurbishments and new-build homes—mainly in Madrid and Cantabria. Their work is based on a precise architectural approach, where each project is conceived as the construction of a serene and balanced spatial framework, capable of accommodating the life that unfolds within. “Building the void and then dressing it” is not a formal statement, but a way of understanding space as a structure that precedes inhabitation.

Symmetry, balance and warmth articulate an architecture that rethinks domestic space from a contemporary perspective, rooted in tradition yet attentive to new ways of living. Each project is developed from a deep understanding of those who inhabit it, to the extent that the works take their names: The writer’s house, The diplomat’s house, The pianist’s house. People are always the starting point and the final destination of the project.

Boira’s work offers an integrated vision of architecture, interior design and decoration, understood as inseparable parts of the same process. The container—serene and harmonious—is placed at the service of the content, avoiding unnecessary protagonism and prioritising overall coherence.

Berta Otero Pérez and Rocío Anós Población

Within the studio, Berta Otero and Rocío Anós share the conceptual development of each project and the reflection on new ways of living, although an unwritten internal dynamic places Rocío at the origin of the creative concept and Berta in charge of overseeing and managing the construction process. This complementarity reinforces an architectural practice that is equally attentive to the idea and to its material execution.

Both architects understand the project as a continuous process, in which design and construction form part of the same line of thought. Their architecture is built through listening, dialogue and careful attention to the real conditions of place, client and time.

Projects by Estudio Boira have been featured in publications such as Arquitectura y Diseño, El Mueble, Telva and La Vanguardia, consolidating a trajectory defined by coherence, restraint and an architecture conceived to be lived in.