Santiago Constantino, Maximiliano Animas, Mateo Torres, Roberto Marroquín. COLAR

COLAR is an architecture collective founded in Mexico in 2021 by Santiago Constantino, Maximiliano Animas, Mateo Torres and Roberto Marroquín, the collective incorporates the vision that a shared, collaborative and horizontal practice, together with a multidisciplinary approach and an attentive listening to the circumstances and agents involved in the process, necessarily produce a different way of approaching the development of proposals or projects, resulting more satisfactory for all actors.

The emergence of this joint search offers greater richness and complexity, opening the doors to the sum of knowledge and know-how, both inside and outside the design process, thus guaranteeing a better understanding and approach to each case, and, therefore, the most convenient possible result.

COLAR Architecture Collective is based on the premise that there are different ways of approaching architectural practice. This search finds its path through the growing opportunities of distance connectivity, allowing that, from different territories and with the breadth and richness that this entails, a (non-physical) place emerges in which to develop such practice.

The collective sees in contemporary practice and its socio-environmental limitations an opportunity to propose conscious, practical and aesthetic solutions, adequate to the spatial and emotional needs of the users. Each project is understood as a set of particularities of the place (physical, social and cultural context) and of the users (needs, time and budget).

Space should not be understood only as a physical form, but as the result of the dynamic interaction between human needs, constructive traditions and nature. Contemplating all possible variables opens the way to the encounter between ideas and matter, seeking an honest expression of architecture, rooted in culture and landscape, responding to each of the requests in a particular way.