Both architects graduated from the ETSA in Donostia, after approximately a decade working in large architectural studios in the Basque Country, where they collaborated with architects such as Carlos Ferrater or coop himmelb(l)au, Beñat Saratxaga and Gentzane Goikuria created the behark platform in 2009, to develop silent architecture, based on analysis and observation, aimed at meeting the objectives set for each project in the most efficient and relevant way possible, proposing only what is truly necessary to achieve them.

This is not to mention numerous new construction projects for both public and private developers, including some award-winning works, such as the farmhouse for a family of livestock farmers and veterinarians in Gorbeialdea (winner of the Egurtek award in 2014), the transformation of a warehouse into the Aiaraldea Ekintzen Faktoria socio-cultural centre (winner of the COAVN award in 2022) and the Last Chance for a Slow Dance covered public space in Larrabetzu (winners of the COAVN award in 2022, Egurtek award in 2022, AITIM award in 2022, finalist at the CSCAE ARCHITECTURE awards in 2021, of the XII Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, and Finalist at the AHI European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention, among other awards) the behark studio’s work is characterised by its dedication to transforming the built environment, refurbishment and urban regeneration, especially in degraded neighbourhoods or those not equipped with buildings or infrastructures adequate to current standards, favouring citizen participation in the design (and enjoyment) of public space. Thus, it is worth highlighting the experience acquired in drafting various technical studies to formulate Preferential Refurbishment Areas carried out for the Bilbao Urban Refurbishment Society in different neighbourhoods of the city, which included the technical study of around 350 residential buildings. Thanks to the experience accumulated in the preparation of these studies, behark has recently carried out several unique interventions of transformation and efficient refurbishment of residential buildings, including the one carried out in the building located in Cuesta de Olabeaga 14, and the transformation of the building Dique 2A Berria de Olabeaga, a finalist at the COAVN architecture awards in 2019.

To facilitate strategies to transform the built environment, behark has devised several unique systems, such as Parkez, a modular system for extending pavements and urban regeneration, and HABIT[ar], a system for transforming residential buildings that allows them to resist the standard.

Their work has been widely published and exhibited, and they have been lecturers in the Master’s in Public Housing at the UPV-EHU and at the UEU.