Since I can remember I always enjoyed playing with design, either Legos or with small constructions. Fortress with furniture and blankets was always fun.
Residential architecture is where the relationship with our client develops deeper but any designs that challenge the status quo or reflects on our society are the most stimulating ones.
Markus Kayser, Solar Sinter Project
It's a solar powered CNC that melts the sand in a desert with a giant lens. It's design sustainability of the project lays on the materials and the production capability.
Depends on the project, each project have it's own favorite material. If I have to define one thru all of our work I would say light and although technology is the platform of our times it's not indispensable.
I don't have a style nor interested in having one. I believe every project is uncertain of form or expression till the project reveal its constraints and possibilities.
Peru is strongly charged with heritage, its one of the millennial cultures of the world, nonetheless it is hard to evolve those subjects into something meaningful, without falling into the cliché.
As much as possible as collaborations, when that is not possible we aim for their feedback.
With our consultants we try to work in the most transdisciplinary way as possible.
Our process is very reactive, sometimes from the client, sometimes from the site or the program. We don't start with preconceive ideas. We invest the most of our process in the creative and detail phases.
Breakfast with family, teaching design studio or working in the morning in the pragmatics of the office, lunch with family and in the afternoon work on ideas and designs, the night is always more uncertain and varied.
Production phase can be managed, creativity time it's highly unexpected, you never know when inspiration will hit you, sometimes is an immediate and impulsive response to the problem, others it's digging through the research and starting all design possibilities.