How we work

WE EXPLORE

We tackle design through research, using cutting edge technology for both rural, and urban large scale site analysis. Our transdisciplinary approach involves ecological, geographical, and sociological inputs, that inform the design at its initial phase.

Abordamos el diseño a través de la investigación, utilizando tecnología de punta para el análisis de sitios rurales y urbanos de gran escala. Nuestro enfoque transdisciplinario involucra inputs ecológicos, geográficos y sociológicos, que informan el diseño en su fase inicial.

WE ENVISION

We propose mitigation and resilience strategies that respond to initial research, using green infrastructure as an ecological and sustainable response to the challenges of climate change. We understand resilient landscapes as artifacts capable of triggering beneficial environmental processes in the different phases of implementation.

Proponemos estrategias de mitigación y resiliencia que respondan a la investigación inicial, utilizando la infraestructura verde como una respuesta ecológica y sostenible a los desafíos del cambio climático. Entendemos los paisajes resilientes como artefactos capaces de detonar procesos ambientales beneficiosos en las distintas fases de implementación.

WE TEST

At this stage, we deliver a pilot project to put these strategies to a test in order to achieve maximum ecological performance. We refine our concept according to our findings in the prototype.

En esta etapa, entregamos un proyecto piloto para poner a prueba estas estrategias con el fin de lograr el máximo rendimiento ecológico. Luego, refinamos nuestra visión inicial según los hallazgos y aprendizajes del prototipo.

WE DESIGN

We are landscape architects so our innovative solutions are carefully crafted ecological devices. Our goal is to contribute to the built environment with less concrete and more plants. We achieve this goal by providing detailed construction drawing sets to turn our clients vision into reality.

Somos arquitectos del paisaje, por lo que nuestras soluciones innovadoras son dispositivos ecológicos cuidadosamente diseñados. Nuestra meta es contribuir al entorno construido con menos hormigón y más plantas. Logramos este objetivo al proporcionar conjuntos de planos de construcción detallados para convertir la visión de nuestros clientes en realidad.

2019 - ongoing

THE CASE OF PACHACAMAC PARK IN LIMA, PERU

Understanding plants as living machines that are not only capable of articulating the connection between air and soil, but also allow to rebuild an ecosystem worn out by development, this project shows that landscape design can trigger processes at an ecosystemic level, avoiding the opposition between nature and technology.

The desert of the Peruvian central coast hosts a series of fragile ecosystems, endangered due to the exponential economic development that Peru experimented since the beginning of this century, indiscriminate logging and climate change. The lack of visibility and education about these natural systems of arid climate has contributed to the progressive deforestation of valleys, hills, and dunes, with the consequent loss of endemic species and the ecosystem services they provide. Our goal is to transform Pachacamac into an example of how to reverse this process.

Our strategy is to make ecology protect archeology. Taking as precedent the preexistence of tillandsias in the ruins, we propose the ecological restoration of the hills ecosystem on the site, which encourages the consolidation and creation of new dunes. The mantle is a Tillandsia blanket that completely covers the site, a living sand accumulation machine to protect the soil and archaeological remains from wind erosion, which also provides ecosystem services to the surrounding neighborhoods. Together with the Tillandsia, a tamarugal and a series of educational orchards cover the extensive dunes, using the water that is recycled in the plinth to irrigate the park through a new system of walkways and fog poles. These artifacts will be responsible for distributing and ‘fogging’ the water, generating a landscape of artificial fog several meters under the lower elevation of the clouds that permanently cover Lima.