A modern building with a gray concrete base featuring yellow circular windows and door, and three large green shipping containers on the roof.
The ground-up building is 3,000 square feet. Photography by Del Rio Bani.

June 18, 2026

Words: Natalia Torija

This Spanish Seed Company’s Office Reflects Its Ethos

site: el peral, spain
firm: impepinable studio

About 150 miles south of Madrid, the Spanish family company Agrosemillas operates entirely on-site in El Peral: farming, harvesting, processing, packaging, and storing legume and cereal seeds. In 2019, upon finishing CEO Julio Alberto Laorden’s residence, architect Gabriela Barrera of Impepinable Studio was asked to develop new industrial and office facilities to keep up with his and his sister Marian’s growing business, which they founded in 2010.

Before launching Impepinable in 2020, Barrera worked on international competitions and residential projects at Kengo Kuma & Associates and MVRDV and taught at the Technische Universität in Berlin. Agrosemillas was only her second project in the agricultural trade—one in which she was not given much direction. “In this sector, people never talk about design,” Barrera says. “But Julio discussed how difficult it is to hire people, how he needs to bring talent, but the facilities are in the middle of nowhere.”

  • A modern building with a concrete base featuring yellow-framed round windows and door, topped with green shipping containers with yellow-lit interiors.
    For the office of Spanish agricultural company Agrosemillas, four repurposed shipping containers atop a concrete plinth play on the sawtooth industrial roof, they and the steel door and windows finished in the corporate colors. Photography by Del Rio Bani.
  • Modern office space with green ceiling, large windows, round yellow-framed windows, a table, and yellow storage unit topped with potted plants.
    Form Us With Love’s Unfold pendant fixtures hang from the 18-foot ceiling in the open office area. Photography by Del Rio Bani.
  • A modern, rectangular building with a gray concrete facade, yellow door and window frames, and green shipping containers stacked on the roof.
    The ground-up building is 3,000 square feet. Photography by Del Rio Bani.
  • Minimalist office with a round window, two red chairs, a glass table, and a large framed photograph on the wall. Ceiling features exposed cylindrical ducts.
    Acoustic cylinders hover over the director’s office, where a Fritz Haller desk pairs with Eames molded plastic chairs. Photography by Del Rio Bani.
  • Modern interior with green ceiling, wood-paneled walls, large pendant light, glass doors, and an open workspace visible in the background.
    Steel-framed glass doors and cellular polycarbonate panels divide the workplace without compromising natural light. Photography by Del Rio Bani.
  • Yellow-rimmed oval window set in a concrete wall, partially covered by a yellow perforated metal panel.
    The custom windows were built into the concrete formwork by a local steelworker. Photography by Del Rio Bani.

For the office structure, Barrera proposed a 3,000-square-foot, single-story plan on a grid  determined by logistics and variable workflow. On a rather modest budget, she conceived a concrete plinth topped by four readily available shipping containers, modified to frame picture windows  18 feet above to capture north-facing light. Compared to the adjacent buildings, the footprint is small, so there was opportunity to “play with the section, elevation, and volumes,” Barrera notes. The project was greenlit from the first meeting,  despite such idiosyncratic details as circular windows and exterior paint colors in the bright green and yellow of Agrosemillas’s branding.

  • Modern kitchen interior with a stainless steel sink, wood panel walls, yellow-trimmed glass door, and exposed green ceiling beams. A minimal white room with stools is visible through the door.
    For the lab, a workbench and additional furniture in stainless steel are custom. Photography by Del Rio Bani.
  • Modern office interior with yellow desks, potted plants, wooden partitions, concrete floor, and exposed green metal ceiling with industrial lighting.
    Volumes clad in oak veneer and flooring of poured, polished concrete compose the material palette for the grid-system plan. Photography by Del Rio Bani.
  • A round, yellow-framed window with a mesh screen, revealing industrial equipment outside; three stacked white stools sit below the window.
    Windows are fitted with a hand-operated, perforated-steel screen. Photography by Del Rio Bani.
  • Industrial facility with exposed metal ducts, a corrugated roof, and a modern building featuring green containers and circular yellow windows and door. Overcast sky in the background.
    Adjacent to the office building, industrial facilities for seed storage and processing were also designed by Impepinable Studio. Photography by Del Rio Bani.

The open, airy interiors are equally pared-down,  enlivened by the same vivid color duo. Poured, polished concrete flooring and oak millwork compose the restrained material palette. Furnishings are clean-lined modern classics: Eames chairs, Fritz Haller desks and storage, industrial-esque pendant fixtures by Form Us With Love. The understated luxury conforms with the overall context of the 7-acre industrial site, where Impepinable also completed two industrial facilities. The company is thriving, Barrera says,  “because it now has a strong sense of identity.”

FROM FRONT
NOTSON ACÚSTICA: ACOUSTIC CYLINDERS (OFFICE). THROUGHOUT MUUTO: PENDANT FIXTURES. USM: DESKS, STORAGE. VITRA: CHAIRS. IKEA: WHITE STOOLS. LEBREL FURNITURE: CUSTOM FURNITURE WORKSHOP. OSCAR REMOLINO: METALWORK. GV408: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. NORTAP: MEP. CRESVER80: GENERAL CONTRACTOR.

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