A Campo Traviesa is a young architecture and urbanism firm based in Brazil. Founded in 2024, its origins started around 2018, encompassing an independent practice by Agu Sienra Chaves.
The name A Campo Traviesa, which would be approximately equivalent to 'off-road' / 'road-less' / 'cross country', condensates its essence:
It means a strong conviction with discovering new paths within the disciplines that shape our physical spaces. Treating every project with respect to other's milestones that precede us, but with curiosity and without the limits imposed by convention, the firm' name, in Spanish, reflects not only the 'road-less' English connotations.
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In Spanish, the expression has almost a countryside smell, which get even more life when considering the vastness of Rio de la Plata's grasslands, and why not, the vastness of some other natural regions of South America.
So, by 'road-less mode', a campo traviesa also means a strong commitment to do things differently to achieve different results, in a context of environmental challenges we all face nowadays, aiming to be helpful in a broad list of categories, not just focusing on design and architecture for themselves.
ACT is inspired by leading international practices, by Eladio Dieste's humanist-economic thinking and by the Uruguayan constructivism, having only small clues about what these giants do really weight. Thanks to that distance between what we know about those examples that inspires us and what they really are, we find a range of movement and own voice.
Renovation 01 apartment.
Project, lab.
Montevideo, Uruguay
El Plan. Un espacio de grado
cero.
Published Article by Usina
Groundscape for Landscape
Murmansk, Russia
Cactus
Private island RIBA competition.
Las Bahamas
Studio's cabinets and partition
wall
Lab micro service
Questions from the new generation. UIA2021RIO
Published Article by ACSA
Consulting
A Campo Traviesa provides Consulting services related to maintenance and building surveys for residential buildings.
The main goal is to tackle one of the less attractive but key collective tasks in South America: helping to achieve and concatenate correct and durable maintenance of the existent buildings, that compose big parts of our cities.
With this sort of inherent flexibility of the abovementioned procedure, to understand and rethink future projects and clients' needs, to unleash youth's ideas in our approaches: a journey has just started. Thank you to walk with us A campo traviesa for what will be next.
A Campo Traviesa - Cooperārī (ACT-Co) is going to be the non-for-profit arm of the for-profit firm, as contemporary challenges also demand action from social organizations.