(“Text as submitted by Architect”)
Horacio Cherniavsky
- Born in Santiago, Chile on September 8th 1989
- Architect of Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción (2015)
- Founded Equipo de Arquitectura in 2017
- Teaches 4th semester at Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción and 8th semester at Universidad Nacional de Asunción.
- Member of Colectivo Aqua Alta
Viviana Pozzoli
- Born in Asunción, Paraguay on February 23rd 1990
- Architect of Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción (2016)
- Founded Equipo de Arquitectura in 2017
- Teaches 6th semester at Universidad Nacional de Asunción.
- Member of Colectivo Aqua Alta
Roque Fanego
- Born in Asunción, Paraguay on July 11th 1984
- Architect of Universidad Nacional de la Asunción
Practice Ideology
Our vision of architecture is very primitive and essential: primitive for its conceptual relationship to the origin of architecture and essential to evade relations with the unnecessary. We work with matter, transform it and arrange it in different ways to create spaces. We treat light as the element that intensifies and shapes space and the materials that create it. We understand order as the generator, starting with the organization of the projects as the beginning of a process. This way, plans and sections maintain a legible logic.
We constantly seek to integrate the existing natural environment with the building. We transform that environment, enhancing the pre-existing that characterizes it, respecting the natural setting we inhabit. Immersed in the paradox of our being-in-the-world, summarized as “destruct to construct”, we understand that the matter we build with comes from previous destructions. This is why we reconsider the use and re-use of certain materials and choose to work with those that gather relevant information for each specific situation. We don’t aim to find a certain language that defines our identity. To the contrary, we are constantly searching for new results as the products of different questions.
We’re attracted to the ethics behind material sincerity, without falling into radicalisms. We try to find that same honesty in the structure of our projects, in a way that the reading of the architectural elements is as clear and straightforward.
We work in the many sides of our profession, seeking to connect and complement every exercise as the construction of our own learning process. Our academic practice is a productive exchange between investigation and production.
Interdisciplinarity is what keeps us motivated and constantly searching. We believe that everything complements in the end. The bigger the input, the richer the output.
