e-cloud9

Name: e-cloud9
Address: Roc Boronat 117-125, baixos, Barcelona, 08018, ES
Telephone: +34 932 15 05 53

Enric Ruiz-Geli founded Cloud 9 in 1997.

Enric Ruiz-Geli and his interdisciplinary architectural team Cloud 9 in Barcelona work at the interface between architecture and art, digital processes and technological material development. The architects’ multifaceted projects include stage sets and buildings, installations and industrial products, and are realized together with various collaborative partners. Cloud 9 is committed to the use of new technological developments and the performative character of architecture, which creates intelligent structures in emulation of nature. The Spanish architect and artist has been awarded the Research and Development Award of the Southern California Institute of Architecture (2008) and the Catalonian Premis MediAmbient for sustainable architecture (2009), among others. The most important projects of Cloud 9 include the “Villa Nurbs” in Empuriabrava, an organically formed, ecological and futuristic house. For the recently completed Media-TIC Building in Barcelona, the architects also made use of a high-tech membrane equipped with a digital, controllable mechanism that facilitates the absorption of sunlight.

23/10/2026

Fa poc més d’un mes va concloure l’exposició Seny i Rauxa. Notícia de l’arquitectura catalana al Disseny Hub Barcelona.

En aquest recorregut pels últims 150 anys d’arquitectura del país, el seny i la rauxa són la tesi que connecta l’Escola d’Arquitectura de 1875 amb el present.

A Cloud 9 ens van col·locar, com no, a la “zona rauxa”. Ens ha fet una il·lusió especial que el nostre dibuix de la Villa Nurbs estigués al costat d’un plànol original de l’arxiu de Jujol.

L’Enric diu: “No es tracta de seny i/o rauxa, sinó d’una arquitectura molt, molt mar i muntanya”.

Beth Galí: “Els Enrics són RAUXA sens dubte”.

Àngela Molina Climent: “A l’exposició hi ha un bolet”, la maqueta del Media-TIC.

Joan Roig: “Hi ha tesi…”

Un agraïment a joanroigduran🌿 Victoria Garriga .navarrete.pardo
Olga Subirós Gabor Norman Christopher Macken

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Hace poco más de un mes concluyó la exposición Seny i Rauxa. Notícia de l’arquitectura catalana en Disseny Hub Barcelona.

En este recorrido por los últimos 150 años de arquitectura del país catalán, el seny i la rauxa, o “la sensatez y el arrebato”, es la tesis que conecta la Escola d’Arquitectura de 1875 con el presente.

A Cloud 9 nos colocaron, como no, en la “zona rauxa”. Nos ha hecho especial ilusión que nuestro dibujo de Villa Nurbs estuviese al lado de un plano original del archivo de Jujol.

Enric dice: “No se trata de seny y/o rauxa, pero de una arquitectura muy muy mar y montaña”.

Beth Galí: “Los Enrics son RAUXA sin duda”.

Àngela Molina Climent: “En la exposición hay una seta”, la maqueta del Media-TIC

Joan Roig: “Hay tesis…”

Un agradecimiento a joanroigduran🌿 Victoria Garriga .navarrete.pardo
Olga Subirós Gabor Norman Christopher Macken

07/10/2026

Indigenous Futures: “No Blue, No Green”

On Sunday September 20th, coinciding with the start of the Climate Week NYC 2026, I was lucky enough to be invited to the lecture “The Matthiessen Talks: Hope Spots & Hidden Worlds – Humanity’s Place in the Ocean”, and dive into it through the words of “Her Deepness” Dr. Sylvia Earle, in conversation with my dear friend, Dr. Carl Safina.
“Life on Earth has been 4.5 billion years in the making. The oldest animals, whales (30 million years) and sharks (400 million years), deserve our respect and to be treated with dignity”. She is also the author of one of the most important quotes for me: “No blue, no green”.
Dr. Earle spoke about our “superpowers”, the things that make us unique and can be used to help our planet, and about how each individual of any species is equally differentiable and unique. The question we should be asking about other ecosystems and species’ roles is not “how important are you?”, but rather “who are we to answer that?”.
Mission Blue has built a network of 160+ Hope Spots. She presented, alongside Dr. Ellen Pikitch and the Indigenous Advisory Council, the Shinnecock Bay Hope Spot, recognizing the bay’s cultural, ecological and spiritual importance. This initiative aligns with “A walk” with Ann de Forest and our NY Aquarium long-time friend and collaborator, Margie Ruddick of One Landscape. This is a route through the Napeague territory of the Montaukett people, an ephemeral landscape periodically overflowed by the sea, which spanned the eastern tip of Long Island from the current Shinnecock Nation lands in Southampton to Montauk Point, and was gradually eroded by settlers, railroad companies and developers. It aims to highlight the role of Indigenous people on Long Island in educating people on current ways to live more connected to the natural world.
Thanks to the curiosity of ceramist Ellen Braaten, and to the network and intelligence of Robert Reuter and Catherine.
Since my days at AA, where I started the No Blue, No Green studio, into my teaching at Virginia Tech, and with projects such as elBulli1846, we’ve been saying this: “No Blue, No Green”. We hope to be Hope Spot architects as well.

08/09/2026

With this beautiful Nagami piece, we brought the curtain down on our project from last summer’s Biennale Architettura, unEarthed / Second Nature / polliNATION, in collaboration with USM Modular Furniture

In it we addressed the loss of bee populations in Venice’s lagoon. We wanted to highlight the role of pollinators in ecosystem sustainability and in all forms of life evolution.

We are still exploring the evolution of life, and this summer we have been shortlisted for the Bioscope competition with Zoo de Barcelona, a new space for investigation and knowledge, dedicated to the origins of life on Earth.

More to come!

07/07/2026

At Cloud 9 studio, we’ve been building resilience towards climate change since coming across Jeremy Rifkin’s Third Industrial Revolution framework back in 2003. Now we are seeing this change happening in real time.

A building’s first line of defense and climate adaptation is its envelope. A Trombe wall is a passive solar design strategy that uses a thick, dark-colored masonry or concrete wall to absorb solar heat. In Villa Nurbs, we used two layers, one made out of ceramic and one EPDM layer, performing this phenomenon.

The Ceramic Skin (Villa Nurbs, Empuriabrava, 2000-2010) patent features 406 large-format ceramic pieces that utilize high thermal inertia, baking under the intense Mediterranean sun during the day, absorbing the thermal energy so it doesn’t pe*****te into the house, and then slowly releasing it when the temperature drops at night. These pieces were designed digitally (in collaboration with artist Frederic Amat, ceramicist Toni Cumella), and feature a computer-calculated, organic geometry that allows them to function as scales, shading the building when the sun is at its highest point.

It’s suspended on a system of tensioned cables that supports each ceramic piece, allowing for independent movement of each layer of the facade. This suspension of the ceramic skin creates an open air chamber between the scales and the inner wall.

Meteored weather map 7/2/26: https://www.tiempo.com/mapas-meteorologicos/

Toni Cumella Casa Gallego

12/06/2026

Media-ICT model. 2008.

The photoluminescent mineral paint applied to its metallic structure absorbs sunlight during the day and releases it at night, making the building’s skeleton glow in a self-sufficient way.

It’s like a jellyfish!

27/03/2026

Villa Nurbs was born on the ping-pong table in my garage (the biggest table we had to work on).

We were using Autodesk 3ds Max, a software typically used for movie visual effects and 3D animation, not architecture.

When choosing the geometry type, we selected ‘NURBS’: a type of curve that is non-uniform nor rational. It’s the closest we can get to nature.

20/03/2026

Divendres passat vam obrir les portes de la nova oficina Cloud 9

Mil gràcies al Sr. Emili Donato i a tots els que us heu acostat ☁️

C. Cardenal Sentmenat, 37, pb, Sarrià

Sabeu on trobar-nos ;)

05/03/2026

Media-ICT. 22@, Barcelona, Catalonia.
Best Building of the World by WAF 2011.

03/03/2026

elBulli1846. Cala Montjoi, Cap de Creus, Catalonia.

26/02/2026

The Millenium Project. Valladolid, Spain.

Dirección

Roc Boronat 117-125, Baixos
Barcelona
08018

Teléfono

+34 932 15 05 53

Página web

http://www.ruiz-geli.com/, http://www.themakingofcloud9projects.com/, http://www.wavecloudtreezoo.org/, http://www.villa

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