Located in Manila in the Philippines, the Delgado Mausoleum offers sanctuary and serene remembrance amidst a larger housing complex with a series of memorial gardens and pathways. Bidirectional brick parabolic cones are tilted at different angles to create a monolithic structure that resists tensile stress—an ambitious endeavor to develop a sense of awe, foster an emotional response, and embody a past once lived.
The Metabolism of Settlement Coexistences is a book by Peter G. Rowe, Claire Doussard and Carlos Arnaiz about a method for describing and assessing the metabolic contributions of various kinds of settlement co-existences, or basic manners in which humankind assembles itself into urban and quasi-urban constructed circumstances. This is an ORO publication.
Carlos Arnaiz delivered a lecture at Nikken’s office in Tokyo. He addressed the Members in support of AIA Japan’s Continuing Education Services (CES) Program on June 14, 2024. Titled “Living In An Era Of Disruption”, his talk examined the ecological and technological disruptions that are affecting how we think about and alter our built environment today. Suggesting ways to navigate through these disruptions, Carlos presented some of the firm’s latest projects ranging from the design of ecological masterplans to civic and community centers in the Philippines.
CAZA’s Santuario de La Salle won the 2024 Popular Choice of the Architizer A+Award in the Religious Buildings & Memorials category.
The design is a new, inclusive religious space nestled within a larger campus masterplan we created for De La Salle University in Biñan City. In a bustling university campus, Santuario de La Salle allows people to connect with their faith, their religious community, and nature. It weaves together culture and ecology, offering congregants a different idea of spiritual inclusiveness.
We’re pleased to share that CAZA’s Founding Principal Carlos Arnaiz is on the jury panel for the 2024 edition of the BIG SEE Architecture and Interior Design Awards – Grand Prix Winners.
We’re delighted to support BIG SEE’s efforts in promoting designs from Southeast Europe, and sharing the region’s innovations with the rest of the world. The awardees will be announced at the BIG Architecture Ljubljana Festival on May 15-16, 2024.
We are excited to announce that CAZA’s project Santuario de La Salle has been selected as an Architizer A+Award Finalist in the Religious Buildings & Memorials category.
The design is a new, inclusive religious space nestled within a larger campus masterplan we created for De La Salle University in Biñan City. In a bustling university campus, Sanctuario de La Salle allows people to connect with their personal faith, their religious community, and with nature itself. It weaves together culture and ecology, offering congregants a different idea of spiritual inclusiveness.
To vote for Santuario de La Salle among the five shortlisted entries worldwide, click here.
Based on his experience in modular design and mass timber structures, CAZA’s Principal Carlos is currently teaching a 3-year advanced design & research studio at Pratt Institute’s Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design addressing innovations in modular building systems through digital prototyping, robotic manufacturing, and biomaterials. The students’ work is being documented as a book to be published next year.
CAZA’s proposal for Victorias New Government Center (VNGC) in Philippines is a 6000 sqm building set within a five-phase masterplan design comprising retail, housing, innovation, and arts programming. Following a metabolic design process, the structure is arranged around four distinctive towers, two of which harvest rainwater and two that exchange and ventilate air. Erected upon a concrete frame with integrated flood retention cisterns, the five-storey building is covered with a solar paneled roof and wrapped in a facade made of green metal pipes that filter water into terraced planters.
CAZA’s FR House built in the Philippines’ scenic Punta Fuego peninsula was published in Monocle (Issue 168). This cast-in-place concrete house is perched on a bluff overlooking the South China Sea and takes the form of a cluster of volumes organized around a ground-floor garden. Each volume defines a different room in the house and has a single window that frames a particular view of the ocean, landscape, or sky.
CAZA’s award-winning church and community building at De La Salle University campus in the Philippines’ Biñan City was recently covered by several outlets including Architizer, BauNetz, Elle Decor, e-architect, and ÅVONTUURA. Santuario de La Salle is an inclusive religious space designed by CAZA, nestled within a larger campus masterplan the studio also created for De La Salle University in Biñan City. It is composed of a series of circular-shaped volumes wrapped by an outer skin made up of vertical slats that breaks up the massive volume of the building, endowing the elevational treatment with lightness and permeability.
CAZA’s project Santuario de La Salle was featured in Wallpaper* magazine. In the article written by Nana Ama Owusu-Ansah, the church and community hub is described as an “exemplary of CAZA’s practice and sensitivity for exploring how architecture can shape meaningful experiences, enhance its context, and connect people to place and heritage”.
