Our work philosophy is based on listening, researching, understanding, and adapting.
These principles guide our design process as we consider each project´s unique variables.
Collaboration elevates design.
We embrace a client-oriented approach by bringing together talents to ensure every phase is guided by clear communication and a shared vision. Our design process turns ideas and values into tangible, measurable plans and models. These plans serve as the foundation for creating spaces that are functional and meaningful.
Professional Collaborators at various projects: Diego Chacón – surveying and modeling, WarnerVega – architect, Jorge Espinoza – architect, Ricardo Marmolejo – architect /Viz artist, Spiral Viz, Víctor Castillo – drafting & permits, Sinergia electrical and mechanical engineering, LDM Structural, Guidi Structural, PCL for interior design budgets, CCC for construction budgets. Ecoterra for landscape estimates.
Design Director
Adriana Cruz Lara, architect
She has been in constant practice ever since she graduated from ITESM – in Monterrey, Mexico, 1998.
In Architecture, she has participated in projects of relevance in the Academic, Religious, Corporate, Residential, Hospitality & Mixed-use fields. During the design and building phases of these projects, she has taken on highly responsible jobs as part of the team of prestigious design firms in Costa Rica and internationally. She is a registered architect in Costa Rica by CFIA.
She has done Interior Design for Residential & Hospitality projects in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico, Jamaica and Barbados.
Adriana completed her Landscape studies in 2005 at UCR – where she obtained a Masters Degree with honors.
Her landscape work includes projects in various scales and life zones.
She returned to her alma mater (2009-2010) to be a professor at the ITESM School of Architecture. Parallel to teaching, she worked at Vidal Arquitectos, mainly in vertical housing and mixed-use projects.
During 2010-2014 she worked at Gensler – on Workplace, Hospitality & Government projects in Costa Rica, Panama, Mexico, Peru, Chile and Colombia.
She has been invited as a juror for design contests at UCreativa and UCR (Universidad de Costa Rica).
Adriana Cruz Lara – experience @ other architecture firms:
@ eStudio (2015-2016) – Houston, USA – San José, Costa Rica Architect – Coordinating architecture plans for prototype clinics & residential projects.
@ MTA (2014-2015) – San José, Costa Rica.
Architect – Coordinating architecture CDs & renders for Mixed Use Project Escazu Village – Phase I Commercial, Corporate & Residentia
@ Gensler CR (2010-2014) – San José, Costa Rica
Architect / Designer – Conceptual, SD, DD & CD design phases
Hospitality: * Sheraton, Costa Rica -1st floor common areas & guestrooms design and specifications.
* Honorable Mention 2013 by IIDA for Latin America & the Caribbean Workplace: JPMorgan – in Mexico DF, Bogota & Santiago; HSBC in Panama; VTR & Cencosud in Santiago & Possible in CR.
Government: **National Convention Center CR – local designer working as a team with the Los Angeles office.
Specifying local construction methods, materials and finishes.
**Honorable Mention at the Architectural Bienal 2014, CFIA
@ Vidal Arquitectos (2009-2010) – Monterrey. México
Architect / Designer – Layouts, Facades, Landscape & Viz coordination
Hospitality: BWS Apartotel
Corporate: Oficinas DOCSA
Mixed Use: Torre Tanarah
Vertical Housing: La Diana II, Arcángeles III in Mty & Cenit in Chihuahua
Academic Experience:
@ ITESM, Monterrey, México (2009-2010) University Professor.
Courses: Projects I, Architecture Design VI & Landscape Architecture
@ UCreativa (2020-2022). University Professor. Course: Architecture Design IV-VI
