Estudio Hábito completed the 4,500-square-metre Scalpers headquarters in Seville in 2026, near the former Expo ’92 grounds. Architects Alejandro Díaz Pérez and Diego Ibáñez Lahoz organised the building around courtyards and outdoor spaces. Those openings bring daylight and air into the plan, giving work areas a relationship with the outside even away from the street edge.

The ceramic screen does a different job. It shades the building while allowing light through, producing a changing pattern of shadow as the sun moves. The architects drew on Triana’s pottery tradition, bringing a familiar local material into a facade that responds to Seville’s climate.

Inside, the palette shifts to concrete, wood, limewash and stainless steel. The courtyard and the screen work at different scales: one breaks up the depth of the office plan, while the other moderates the light that reaches its edges. Read together, they explain why the building looks the way it does.

Photography, including the cover: Fernando Alda, via the project gallery. Project documentation.