Ricardo Sanz Soriano, an architect from E.T.S.A.M, combined his academic education with professional practice from the very start, thanks to his then design professor Antón García-Abril, founder of Ensamble Studio, where he collaborated for 12 years. There he learned the conceptual development of ideas from model-making to construction.

In his early years at Ensamble Studio, he worked in the initial stages through models on projects such as the Hemeroscopium House and on the façade design of the S.G.A.E. headquarters in Santiago de Compostela.

In the Trufa project, a cabin on the Costa da Morte, he carried out tasks from model-based design to self-construction, managing the contracting and execution of the work.

In the Mesoamerican Museum in Salamanca, an intervention in a historic building developed with a single material—aluminum mesh—he focused on the most technical aspects of architecture, drafting the execution project, searching for companies capable of developing unique solutions with the proposed material, and managing and supervising construction.

In the next stage at Ensamble Studio, he worked on research projects both in Spain and at M.I.T. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, exploring lightweight and prefabricated structures made of expanded polystyrene and galvanized steel profiles, which culminated in the Cyclopean House, a prefabricated house in Spain later reassembled in the United States.

His last stage at Ensamble Studio focused on the Structures of Landscape project for the Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana, where he spent a year on-site, experimenting with formwork and concreting techniques to achieve full-scale execution of the textures and geometries previously developed in the models built in Spain, continuing the explorations initiated during the early years in the Trufa project in Spain.