The Journey

We are Julieta and Fidel, both architects and the team behind anfibio, a creative studio based in Argentina.

We work on our own explorations and collaborate with other architecture studios, creating visual narratives that explore ideas, atmospheres and ways of experiencing architecture. Our practice moves between architecture and visual experimentation.

Our design began by understanding the site and the experience we wanted to create within it. The concept of a constellation emerged as a way of organising the project as a journey: a sequence of elements, each establishing a different relationship with light, water, and the mountain.

Rather than creating a single, continuous experience, we wanted each moment of the journey to feel distinct — sometimes intimate, sometimes open, sometimes immersed in nature. The architecture becomes a way of moving through these changing conditions, creating a diverse sequence of sensations and connections to the place.

The timeframe felt appropriate for the kind of exploration we wanted to undertake. It gave us enough time to develop a clear concept and translate it into a first architectural scheme, while keeping the process focused and open to exploration.

Gendo became a space for exploration within our workflow — an opportunity to step away from our usual commissions and focus more freely on ideas and atmosphere.

We have used Gendo before, mainly for specific image enhancements and improvements. But through this competition, we discovered another way of using it. We started to see it less as a tool for the final image and more as a space for experimentation throughout the design process. Using it not only to improve what is already designed, but to help us discover and develop the project itself.

Being finalists meant a lot to us, especially because the project was an opportunity to explore an idea that was very personal to us.

We would have liked to develop the proposal in greater depth. More time would have allowed us to explore the spatial relationships, the sequence of experiences and the connection between each element in more detail.

We find these competitions particularly interesting because when time is limited, ideas organise themselves differently. The pressure of the clock makes us trust our instincts, and sometimes this leads to unexpected answers.