Overlay
Posted by Carlos Arnaiz on September 26, 2025
Our first job is to stack one thing on top of another without seeking alignment. This doesn’t block or cancel the previous layer—it multiplies the original through a deliberately crooked repetition. We force the limits of the archetype past its breaking point. We are drawn to this method of excessive duplication in the hope that we can let go of our beginnings.
We seek systems in disequilibrium and geometries that are not entirely complete. We are looking for a way out of the labyrinth of staid solutions through the idea of overlay as the controlled proliferation of our work: the more we make the better we can see.
Iterations
The systems surrounding our practice have a brutal wilderness: regulations, economies, and political arrangements in persistent flux. Our ambition is to out run this volatility through the production of relentless architectural iteration.
Operations
The agent of change is our modern-day shaman. In a profession dedicated to stability, the idea of architecture as a set of operations enables us to dream of a practice that can change our world. We want to always stare at a frog and see a prince.
Machine
Drawing is our device to resolve the seemingly unsolvable. It is our deus ex machina. The vectors we project through the endless cloud of points indicate the possibility of making architecture that is biased yet contingent.