Colihue Nest is a mid-tech material system that attempts to showcase and use Colihue’s constructive, structural, and aesthetic potential for the creation of spaces with identitarian, accessible, and long-term value.
The “quincha” is a traditional Latin American construction method that fundamentally uses wood and natural fibers to form an earthquake-resistant framework that is later manually covered with mud and clay.
The BASE is a research studio for architectural systems design. They create architecture that is geared toward non-traditional geometrical, material and spatial formulations that can fit the challenges and opportunities of modern life.
