Sarquella
Torres

Sarquella Torres is an architecture studio based in Banyoles, founded by Pau Sarquella and Carmen Torres.

The practice works across a wide range of scales and formats, from furniture and industrial design to housing, public buildings, and exhibitions. Projects often emerge from limited means and specific constraints, responding to social needs and environmental pressures through direct and carefully considered solutions. Rather than pursuing a fixed formal language, the studio is interested in how architecture is shaped by context, use, and time, allowing space for adaptation, precision, and a certain degree of lightness. The studio’s work has been widely awarded, published, and exhibited.

Alongside their professional practice, both founders are actively involved in architectural education. Pau is Associate Professor of Architectural Design at EPSARQ–UdG and ETSALS–URL, and Carmen is Associate Professor of Architectural Design at ETSAV–UPC, where her teaching and research activities have received academic recognition. Both have also taught at INDA, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.

Beyond the studio, Pau co-founded Persiana Barcelona in 2014, a research-driven design initiative focused on reimagining the traditional roller blind. The product, has since been incorporated into a wide range of architectural projects.

Pau Sarquella and Carmen Torres are co-curators of the UIA World Congress of Architects Barcelona 2026, held under the theme Becoming. Architectures for a Planet in Transition.

 

Current and past team members:

Pau Sarquella
Carmen Torres
Luís Villamil
Marta Farinha
Alicia Marco
Joana Plana
Jerome Lorente
Guillem Quer
Jorge Fernández
Pimpakarn Rattanathuawat
Vitchapol Taerattanachai
Suthida Lertpanichphan

Sarquella Torres

hola@sarquellatorres.com
@sarquella.torres

Carrer de la Canal 25
17920 Banyoles

Grid / List
Year
Project
Location
Category
2026
Ersilia Scientific Research Residency
Porqueres
Residential
2026
Sant Martirià 89
Banyoles
Residential
2026
Rodes Public Playground
Banyoles
Public Space
2025
Banys Vells
Banyoles
Public Space
2025
Casa Nostra
Banyoles
Public Building
2025
Can Biel
Mieres
Residential
2024
Manifesta 15
Barcelona
Ephemeral
2024
Llar. Festival Lluèrnia
Olot
Ephemeral
2024
Ventura 7
Banyoles
Residential
2023
A través de les pesqueres
Banyoles
Exhibition
2023
Europan 17
Lochau
Public Building
2023
Jaume I
Girona
Residential
2022
El millor disseny de l’any
Barcelona
Exhibition
2022
Barcelona Catalonia
Cannes / Munich
Ephemeral
2022
Pa Negre
Girona
Retail
2021
Cinc Cèntims
Banyoles
Exhibition
2018
Cuinats Jotri
Girona
Ephemeral
2018
Bang Nong Saeng Kindergarten
Dum Yai
Public Building
2018
INDA Parade
Bangkok
Ephemeral
2017
El guapo d’en Narcís
Girona
Ephemeral
2017
Local Social la Sauleda
Palafrugell
Public Building
2017
Carns Vila
Girona
Ephemeral
2016
Patis Cinètics
Palma de Mallorca
Ephemeral
2016
Paisatge plàstic
Girona
Exhibition
2014
Persiana Barcelona
Barcelona
Ephemeral
2013
Habitatge sota una coberta
Celrà
Residential
2013
Carnisseria Germans Soler
Celrà
Retail
2013
Mosca
Girona
Ephemeral
Banys Vells
Casa Nostra
Manifesta 15
Llar. Festival Lluèrnia
Ventura 7
A través de les pesqueres
Barcelona Catalonia
Bang Nong Saeng Kindergarten
Local Social la Sauleda
Paisatge plàstic
Carnisseria Germans Soler
Mosca

Manifesta 15

El millor disseny de l’any

Persiana Barcelona