Architecture studio & lab · Madrid · since 2021
Most spaces are designed for no one in particular: for a photograph, a regulation or a statistical average. Arkunay starts earlier, with another question: who is the person who will live here?
The approach · Ontognostic Architecture
Onto, from the Greek ón: being, what is. Gnosis: knowledge gained through experience. A house is not an object to be looked at; it is an instrument to be lived in. Arkunay joins ark, architecture, and munay, Quechua for love and will: architecture worthy of being loved.
Routine, habit, material order and support: movement, heights, paths and what holds you.
The emotional resonance of a place: light, texture, sound and temperature.
Memory, symbol, ritual and orientation: what makes a place mean something to someone.
Soul and Spirit are operational design labels, not metaphysical entities. Our method, SATO, reads the inhabitant on the three levels and turns that reading into traceable design decisions. It is ongoing, non-clinical research, and it is included in every project.
Services & fees
We are a new studio in Madrid and we show it in our fees, not in our standards. Fees are calculated per built square metre and agreed in writing before we start. The first conversation is always free.
The whole house, conceived: concept, layout and atmosphere, ready to decide and to request building quotes.
Minimum €1,200 · VAT not included · 3–5 weeks
Minimum US$900 · local taxes apply · 3–5 weeks
From concept to construction documents, with a licensed architect who signs and a single point of contact for you.
Minimum €4,500 · VAT not included · 3–5 months
Minimum US$2,800 · local taxes apply · 3–5 months
Signature, permits and site supervision are provided by a licensed local architect, quoted separately.
Photorealistic renders and video walkthroughs with AI and author post-production, for owners, developers and studios.
So that what was designed reaches the site intact: visits, decisions on finishes and follow-up, in person or remotely.
Work · 2022 — 2026
A building is not finished when it is handed over. It begins to exist when someone lives in it.
A 50 m² country house for a real inhabitant, Christian: the first project documented with SATO from start to finish. Explore it in 3D →
Author house typologies and a park designed for Inmobiliaria Huertas, presented as conceptual renders. See projects →
Two theses on agricultural architecture in Andean territory, from Huarochirí to the Sacred Valley, with parametric design tools.
All project images are conceptual renders; no project is presented as a built work.
The studio
Architectural designer and visualiser, founder and design director of Arkunay. Trained in Architecture at UPC (Lima) and with a master's degree in tools and technologies for intelligent architectural spaces from UNIR (Spain). He has worked on high-end hospitality and residential projects in Lima, collaborated remotely with a Swiss studio, and has been based in Madrid since 2026.
He understands architecture as an artistic tool that lets people relate — materially, emotionally and symbolically — to the space they inhabit and to themselves. “I don't design objects: I design ways of living.”