In 2019, architect Sergio Baragaño launched a project aiming to combine technology and habitat into a “living-lab” hotel room, named Room2030, and designed by him based on his architectural proposal for the expansion of the Hotel Palacio Ferrera in Avilés. This project is the extension of “bhome”, the modular construction prototype developed in collaboration with ArcelorMittal R&D Asturias-based centres back in 2016.
At the end of 2019, the Room2030 Innovation Consortium is founded with the participation of a series of highly innovative & market-leading companies. Its goal was to bring the laboratory to life and to develop and demonstrate technologies for the purpose of generating The Room of the Future which, industrially manufactured, will be: smart, sustainable, flexible and healthy.
In 2020, Sergio Baragaño launched the start-up of the same name, ROOM2030 to Design, Manufacture and Commercialize solutions based on this prototype, adding the “soul” needed to generate healthy and sustainable habitats where technology is humanized.
In 2022, the following shareholder companies will join the founder: Ecus, Finsa and Normagrup
Sergio Baragaño and ArcelorMittal R&D, the Consortium integrates the following companies (in alphabetical order): Ecus, Finsa, Geopannel, Normagrup, Roca, Saint Gobain and Schneider.
In early 2020 the Consortium presented at the Niemeyer Art Center in Avilés the first pilot model of The Room of the Future, a living lab that integrates elements, systems, and innovations from all of them and in which, from that moment on, they would develop and test technologies either individually or jointly with the rest of the Consortium members.
The Living-Lob ROOM2030, in addition to being the laboratory where our concepts and technologies are tested individually or jointly with partners, is our first prototype and allows us to technically and commercially validate the housing solutions that we develop in the startup and that are based in it.
It has the configuration of a hotel Suite and its dimensions are 40 m2 divided into bedroom, bathroom, living room and porch.
Includes innovations from us and from all the Consortium partners:
→Smart, active and sustainable materials
→Health technologies
→Environmental and energy efficiency
→Internet of Things (IOT network)
→Modular construction and 3D solutions
2020 Technology-Based Company Seal by the Principality of Asturias
2021 REBUILD Advance Architecture Awards Finalist
2021 Finalist of the laCaixa Entrepreneur Awards XXI
2021 Innovative company of Avilés by Avilés City Council
2021 Finalist for “best industrialized construction project” in REBUILD
2022 Finalist of the LA CAIXA BANK Enterprising XXI Awards
2022 Selected for “Acelerating Rural Business” by La Factoria de Empresas
2022 Selected for Quick Global International Acceleration program
2023 COAA Best Building Award after 10 years
2024 AsturiasInnova El Comercio + Vodafone Award
Sergio Baragaño, director of studio [baragaño], and CEO and Founder of ROOM2030, has more than 10 years of unique experience in the industrialized construction sector. He is one of the references at national level in terms of modular buildings executed.
He developed and registered “Bhome”, a modular steel construction system for housing and offices, flexible and compact, which was the seed of the innovation project and start-up: Room2030.
Some of his projects have received the following awards:
→ Warehouses in Avilés Port,
selected in the spanish Architecture Biennial. 2010 Accesit
→ Docks Avilés Port, ATEG award, 2010
→ Cruise Terminal Bilbao, Winner International Competition, 2010
→ ArcelorMittal R&D Slab, Building of the Year Awards Archdaily, 2011
→ ArcelorMittal R&D Slab, Winner KNX Awards Energy Efficiency, 2011
→ ArcelorMittal R&D Buildings, COAA Awards, 2012
→ bh box, selected in the spanish Architecture Biennial, 2016
→ bhome, Architecture Achievement Award Technal, 2016
→ casaMontaña, selected in the spanish Architecture Biennial, 2018
→ casaMontaña, Haüser Award Best Housing Germany 2019
2010 Sheds in the Port of Avilés, selected at the Spanish Architecture Biennial. Accesit Ateg Awards. Sheds in the Port of Avilés
2010 First Prize Bilbao International Cruise Terminal Competition Selected Building of the Year Archdaily Awards
2011 First Prize in KNX Awards Energy Efficiency
2012 COAA Awards. ArcelorMittal R&D. Asturias
2014 bh box, selected at the Spanish Architecture Biennial.
2016 bhome Technal Architecture Prize Winner.
2017 Jury Prize Winner of Technal Architecture. Lisbon
2018 casaMontaña, selected at the Spanish Architecture Biennial.
2018 casaMontaña Haüser Award Best Housing Germany
2019 Lunawood International Competition Jury. Finland
2020 Selected Venice Biennale
Warehouses Avilés Port
Cruise Terminal Bilbao Port
Maritime Station Gijón Port
ArcelorMittal R&D Grid
ArcelorMittal R&D Slab
bhome
casaMontaña
Vinos el Gaucho
Our name is inspired by the 2030 Agenda, as we aim to contribute to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and help the construction industry transition towards a digital and sustainable paradigm.
Digitalization, sustainability & health are 3 of our fundamental pillars that guide the roadmap to develop our technological solution for modular construction.
