Anto Lloveras’ early architectural formation is inseparable from the intense experimental climate of Madrid in the early 2000s, when large-scale housing projects operated as laboratories for social ambition. His involvement in the Edificio Mirador marked a decisive encounter with architectural mass, void, and collectivity. There, the void ceased to function as a purely compositional device and became a social condenser—an aperture rather than an absence. This experience embedded a deep understanding of scale, density, and shared life, but also revealed the limits of monolithic solutions. Rather than remaining within that paradigm, Lloveras gradually redirected his practice toward what might be described as a finer grain of intervention: a move away from architectural totalities toward situational, lived, and repair-oriented actions. This shift does not negate architecture; it metabolises it. The discipline of infrastructure—roads, channels, logistics—remains present, but it is translated into a language of proximity, friction, and care.
