Our first office space, built at a time when we were known as Covachita, was conceived as a lightweight and temporary structure. The 50 m² building was assembled from low-cost, hardware store materials that allowed for quick construction, disassembly, and adaptation over time: prefabricated steel, glass, wood, and stone.

Rather than a permanent building, the project operated as a flexible infrastructure that could evolve along with the studio’s needs. Inspired by the incremental logic of informal settlements of the neighborhood of Tampiquito were it was built, the workshop proposed a temporary occupation that questioned rigid urban planning frameworks and dominant models of land ownership. Positioned within the landscape as a shaded working space, the structure blurred the boundaries between permanence and provisionality while opening a broader discussion on alternative ways of inhabiting the city.