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VIRUTA LAB

We can say that at Viruta Lab we create intimate, signature architecture: each project is born from a unique concept and built with a palette of colors, materials, and details designed to tell personal stories.

Chance brought us together in a studio where immediacy and standardization set the rules of that type of architecture. In the end, we wanted to create unique works, with soul and their own breath. That’s how this journey was born, a strange but beautiful balance: two people working as one, four hands building atmospheres that tell stories. Pure tuning fork effect.

Yes, we remember it like it was yesterday: 3,500 handmade paper pinwheels suspended from the ceiling to transform the Las Naves library in Valencia. A competition presenting a project meant to be ephemeral, with few resources, but with the conviction that ingenuity and the strength of the concept could support it. That experience taught us that what matters is not the budget, but the faith placed in the idea. And the poetic part is that what was meant to last only six months has been standing for six years.

Casa Gesso reinterprets Ángela García Codoñer’s visual codes: geometry, repetition, and chromatic subtlety in architectural decisions that range from details to the overall atmosphere. Ultimately, the house does not illustrate her work; it interprets and extends it, becoming an extension of her critical and aesthetic thinking.

We decided to place the patio at the center of the home because we understood it should be its heart, both physical and emotional. It also naturally responds to listening to the space and responding to its geometry, as well as to its inhabitants and their desire for an intimate outdoor space. The patio typology, in the line of Mies van der Rohe, is for us one of the most beautiful and poetic ways to live.

If there were no limits, at Viruta Lab we would love to design a cemetery. It’s a place where architecture transcends function and becomes memory, silence, atmosphere. Just think of works like the Woodland Cemetery in Stockholm by Erik Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz, or the Sayama Lakeside Cemetery in Japan by Hiroshima Nakamura & Nap — spaces that move you because they are designed from the senses. There, light, materials, and especially the concept, can transform mourning into a constructed poetic experience.

What we value about The Masie is its ability to create furniture with its own identity but that also invites interpretation within each project. Their designs convey freshness, honesty, and a certain boldness. They are pieces that don’t aim to be neutral or invisible, but neither do they fall into stridency. That formal and chromatic sincerity connects deeply with our vision of Architecture and Interior Design.

Your designs inspire us to think that furniture can also be future memory: moments of life that, thanks to a table, a chair, a lamp, become unforgettable.

More than predicting what will disappear, we like to imagine what we’d like to fade away: the trend of fake materials, those that simulate what they’re not. We believe in returning to authenticity: stone that is stone, wood that is wood, and plaster that breathes like plaster. And with that, recovering the figure of the craftsman who knows their craft and turns it into art.

For us, the Rinu armchair has always won us over; it’s a timeless piece that reinterprets the classic with a contemporary gaze, reflecting the essence of Viruta Lab.

It’s impossible for us to stick with just one color. Every “viruta” born in our studio carries a different tone, as if each project breathes its own shade.

What matters to us is authenticity and intimate architecture. If we had to define it, we’d say it’s a timeless style, one that never goes out of fashion, with a sober and sensitive language at the same time. A style capable of moving you without artifice.