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Emmerick Braun Enciso
Started to collaborate in the studio since 2013, became a partner in the year 2017. Graduated from the Asunción National University (FADA – UNA) in the year 2021. International Special Mention in the Recycling and Rehabilitation category at the Panamerican Architecture Biennial of Quito – Casa Ilona (BAQ XIX). Professor at the Asunción National University (FADA – UNA).
Miky González Merlo
Founded the studio in the year 2011. Graduated from the Asunción National University (FADA – UNA) in the year 2013. First prize in the Recycling and Rehabilitation category at the Panamerican Architecture Biennial of Quito – Vivienda WF (BAQ XVIII). International Special Mention in the Recycling and Rehabilitation category at the Panamerican Architecture Biennial of Quito – Casa Ilona (BAQ XIX). Professor at the Itapúa Catholic University (FACYT – UCI) and the American University (FCACT – UA).
Practice Ideology
Grupo Culata Jovái is an architecture studio that has been working since 2011 in collaborative ways. We look for solutions incorporating our projects criteria of economic and environmental sustainability. We believe that our buildings show a way to work with what’s conventional to our reality, the common materials and the common technologies. To make things new with what has always been available to us. Identifying resources for construction is the usual task, an intrinsic part of the process. Everything previously built has the potential to become a quarry, to be transformed into something new. Sincerity is always required, at the cost of a certain rawness, to let these processes be explained by themselves. More than a product, what we offer is a service. A service nurtured in the time necessary to build a culture, a way of thought, adequate to our everyday lives.
