Born in Empuriabrava, on the coastline of the Alt Empord\u00e0, Paola Bagna trained as an architect at two schools that define her understanding of the discipline: the Escola T\u00e8cnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona and the Technische Universit\u00e4t Berlin. A dual education that foreshadows what would become a career shaped by movement, cultural exchange and the ability to adapt to very different built environments.<\/p>\n
With more than fifteen years of professional practice, Bagna has developed private residential projects and commercial spaces in London, Barcelona, Paris, Berlin and Abidjan. A scattered geography that gives shape to her working model, which she herself describes as “everyday nomadism”: rather than a fixed office, a network of collaborators and shared workspaces in Catalonia and Berlin from which she directs each project with the same attention and commitment as if she were in a single place. It is within this framework that Paola Bagna Architect operates \u2014 her international studio, a light and efficient structure designed to respond nimbly to commissions across different countries and contexts.<\/p>\n
The studio’s work always begins with one essential premise: listening. Before any formal effort, Bagna takes time to understand what the client wants and to carefully measure the space she is about to work with. From that precise knowledge of the place, she develops initial sketches, works in three dimensions and maintains a continuous dialogue with the client until every detail has been refined. This methodology proves especially meaningful in small-scale projects, where, as she points out, “proposals depend greatly on the centimetres more or less available”.<\/p>\n
The typology that fascinates her most is housing, and within it, the transformation of what already exists. Her architecture is rooted in respect for and reinterpretation of the built fabric, adapting it to new uses and new ways of living. In this process, materials play a central role: for Bagna, they must converse with one another naturally and with a certain nobility, and above all, they must age well \u2014 gaining presence over time and acquiring a beautiful patina through use. This sensitivity towards matter has led her to explore reuse as a practice, salvaging pieces and elements from one project to incorporate into another, as happened with the early twentieth-century parquet rescued from a project in Paris that eventually became the furniture designed for Galatea Wine, a wine bar in Berlin.<\/p>\n
A singular chapter of her career unfolded between 2015 and 2017, when Bagna moved to Abidjan to lead the rehabilitation of a two-thousand-square-metre house built in the nineteen-sixties \u2014 designed by architect Henri Chomette \u2014 with the aim of transforming it into an eighteen-room boutique hotel. That experience in C\u00f4te d’Ivoire, intense and entirely without routine, broadened her ability to work within complex construction environments and consolidated an outlook open to experimentation and cultural exchange \u2014 a dimension she also explored through Electropique, a project she organised there combining music and architecture as a form of community encounter. Today, based between Empuriabrava and Berlin, and fluent in five languages, Paola Bagna continues to pursue the same goal in every project: spaces that improve the lives of those who inhabit them, built with simplicity, functionality and an attention to detail that is never taken for granted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":62600,"template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","footnotes":""},"categorias-profesionales":[1322],"class_list":["post-62602","profesionales","type-profesionales","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorias-profesionales-architects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profesionales\/62602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profesionales"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profesionales"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profesionales\/62602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62603,"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profesionales\/62602\/revisions\/62603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categorias-profesionales","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categorias-profesionales?post=62602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}