From Murcia, where she founded her studio in 2011, Laura Ortín has spent two decades shaping her own way of understanding architecture. She graduated from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Valencia in 2006, after specialising in Building at the École d’Architecture ISAI in Brussels, and between 2012 and 2014 she completed her doctoral studies at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. She spent her early years of practice at the Ad-Hoc Murcia studio, where she took part in competitions and in public and private commissions across every phase of the project.

A succession of commissions gradually shaped a personal line of research that she now gathers under the claim “architecture for happiness”: designing from the way people perceive spaces, in order to bring them wellbeing and identity. She is interested in the relationship between people and their living environment, which she calls the etho-ecological dimension, and from it emerge spaces that are healthy, beautiful and emotionally evocative. The studio works on new builds, rehabilitation, renovation and furniture design with the same values at any scale: respect, memory, welcome, honesty and economy. Ortín also champions the social capacity of architectural design, and for more than a decade she ran LOdiseñaLO in parallel, a project conceived as a creative miscellany where she shared obsessions, intentions and projects.

Her way of organising the profession is equally distinctive. Instead of the classic studio model, she has woven a stable network of collaborations, designed so that professional practice can remain compatible with life.

Teaching holds a central place in her career. She teaches on the Master’s Degree in Neuroarchitecture at the University of Alicante, the Master’s in Interior Design at Instituto 42 in Murcia and the Interior Design Experience programme in Madrid. She has sat on final-degree project juries and has lectured at universities and schools in Zaragoza, Alicante, Madrid and Cartagena. She has authored research articles in Innovación e Investigación en Arquitectura y Territorio, published by the University of Alicante, and in Documentos Académicos de Arquitectura, from the Politécnica de Bolivia, and the studio’s work has appeared in international magazines such as I-Plus Magazine, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui and FIO.