Every project arrives with a different question. Pick the one closest to yours and we will tell you what it involves, how long it takes and what it costs, before you sign anything.
We check what the planning rules allow on your plot, what can be built and what it costs, before drawing anything. Then we develop the full project through to the drawings and the permit application with the curaduría (the licensed private office that issues building permits in Cali and other large Colombian municipalities; in smaller ones, the municipal planning office).
Owners with a plot in Cali, the Valle del Cauca or anywhere in Colombia.
We start from what is actually there: what can come down, whether another floor is viable (with a civil engineer’s structural opinion), and what costs more than it looks. Design, works planning and finishes, with no surprises halfway through.
People already living in the building who need more space, or a different one.
We start from how you want to live or work, not from a drawing. We set the brief, the budget and the timeline in order, and that turns into something you can look at and correct (massing, plans, images) before committing to anything.
People who are clear about the intention and not yet about the commission.
A technical inspection to establish what is happening and why, before spending on repairs that do not address the cause. You get the diagnosis in writing, with the remedies and the order to do them in.
Owners, building managers and residents’ committees.
Technical supervision independent of the contractor: quality control, programme, quantities and regulatory compliance, with reports that are put in writing and hold up if you have to make a claim.
Anyone who hired a third party to build and does not want to rely on their word.
Schools, cultural centres, administrative offices and public space. It is where most of our work is, and where the studio’s four competition awards come from, three of them national public competitions.
Public bodies, family compensation funds, developers and foundations.
An architect looks at what you already have (a drawing, a quote, someone else’s report) and tells you what is sound, what is missing and what they would ask before signing. The first conversation costs nothing. If the case calls for more, you get a written technical opinion.
Anyone about to make an expensive decision who wants an independent reading.
Already know what you need? Planning, costing, design or support on site: start from the specialism.
From the first sketch of your house or building to the drawing the permit is applied for with, from our studio in Cali.
What you contract when the project is already moving and has to be held together: finding out whether the numbers work before anything is drawn, carrying the permit application, buying with prices compared, and checking that what gets built is what was contracted.
Working on what is already built, and handing it over running.
Bespoke architectural components: drawn, engineered, made and installed.
What comes after handover, which is when a building starts to cost money.
It moves in steps, and at each one you decide whether to carry on. The first costs nothing and lasts 15 minutes.
Fifteen minutes with an architect. We tell you whether we can help, what your case involves and what the next step is.
An hour with an architect on one specific point: a crack, what the planning rules allow on your plot, whether a budget makes sense.
We go to the plot or the building. You come away with a written report: what you have, what constrains it, what needs doing and in what order.
What the planning rules allow on your plot, what can be built, a rough budget per square metre, and a programme.
Site layout, plans, massing and images. The project stops being an idea and becomes something you can look at and correct.
Construction drawings, coordination with the other engineering disciplines, a priced bill of quantities, and filing with the curaduría.
Technical support during construction, with reports and control of quantities.
Free
15 minutes with an architect. We tell you whether we can help and what the next step is.