Our team brings together professionals with diverse, complementary backgrounds, united by a shared vision: creating architecture in harmony with its site, landscape, and cultural context.

Based on the Costa Brava, we develop new buildings, landscapes, and restoration projects—balancing detailed design with a broader territorial perspective, and combining historical knowledge with contemporary innovation.

This range of experience allows us to approach each project with technical rigor, sensitivity, and sustainability, always mindful of the surrounding physical and human environment.

Kiel, 1973

- Dipl.-Ing. Architect (FH) Oldenburg

- Registered with the Barcelona Architects’ Association, COAC nº. 49274-4

- International Master in Landscape Design, Barcelona (IFLA accredited)

- Trained carpenter, journeyman

Björn Hinners has several years of professional experience in architecture and landscape architecture, having worked in various offices in Germany and Barcelona. He has contributed to projects in sports architecture and public buildings and has been directly involved in the construction of ecologically oriented and energy-efficient single-family homes.

He has also gained international experience in landscape architecture offices, participating in competitions and projects in park and garden design, ecological restoration, and landscape rehabilitation. In a construction supervision role, he has overseen landscape projects on slopes and embankments.

Since 2007, Björn has been working as a registered architect in Spain, developing his own projects, and since 2010 he has been collaborating with his partner Bàrbara Garcia Belmonte under the practice name es-pai, based in the province of Girona.

Barcelona, 1975

- Architect, ETSAB Barcelona

- Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) on: “Architecture and Memory: Representation of a Place”, Department of Architectural Projects, UPC/Barcelona

Bàrbara Garcia Belmonte has extensive experience in diverse architectural projects, including social housing, schools, and public administration buildings (GISA and municipalities), as well as in restoration and rehabilitation works. She has also participated in various architectural and landscape architecture competitions.

She has held project management and site supervision roles in historical heritage projects, overseeing archaeological gardens, the design of historic town centers, and typological studies of Catalan country houses (masías).

From 2001 to 2005, she taught and contributed to research projects at ETSAB, Department of Architectural Projects, Barcelona, and was part of a multidisciplinary team including archaeologists, biologists, and anthropologists. Since 2010, she has been working closely with Björn Hinners as a partner in a wide range of architectural and landscape architecture projects.