Architecture | AtelierM

Awards

2026 Bienal Internacional de Arquitectura de Buenos Aires, Obra seleccionada, CM
2026 Best Sustainable Architecture Studio 2026 (Arg), LuxLife Magazine
2025 25 Best Architecture and Desig Firms in Argentina (7. AtelierM), Architizer
2025 Leading Architecture Studio for High-End and Sustainable Design, 2025 Global Elite Awards
2025 Most Innovative Architecture Firm 2025 (Arg), LuxLife Magazine
2024 Bienal Internacional de Arquitectura de Buenos Aires, Obra seleccionada, LuMa
2024 Built Work Award CAPBA. 2nd Place, LuMa (Arg)
2024 Exhibition "Arquitectura Intermedia", MARQ (Arg)
2023 Best Luxury Architect Studio in Argentina (NY)
2022 Golden Trezzini Awards (Rus), Honourable Mention, ZigZag
2022 Golden Trezzini Awards (Rus), Honourable Mention, MeCa
2022 Bienal Internacional de Arquitectura de Buenos Aires (Arg), Obra seleccionada, MeCa
2021 Golden Trezzini Awards (Rus), Special Mention, Shire
2021 Golden Trezzini Awards (Rus), Special Mention, MaTo
2019 Ranking Excelencia Profesional Clarín (Arg), Voces emergentes y generación intermedia. Sext place.
2017 Concurso Vivienda sustentable Puertos (Arg), First place.
2017 Bienal Internacional de Arquitectura de Buenos Aires (Arg), Finalist, MeMo.
2017 Bienal de Diseño Fadu, UBA (Arg), Finalist, MeMo.
2017 Archdaily, Building of the year (US), Finalist, MeMo.
2016 Ecoparque Interactivo (Arg), Honourable mention
2013 Concurso Impatec (Arg), First place
2011 Oficinas RRHH, GR (Arg), First place
2010 Pabellón Bicentenario, SCA (Arg), Honourable Mention

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Lectures

Teaching is an active part of our practice. For many years, members of AtelierM have taught Architectural Design at FADU, University of Buenos Aires, establishing a continuous exchange between practice, research and academia.

This exchange extends beyond institutional settings through lectures, workshops and ongoing dialogue with architects and colleagues from different disciplines.

Collaborative

AtelierM is conceived as a workshop: a collaborative space where people, disciplines, stories and different ways of thinking come together.

We approach design as an editorial process. Rather than starting from a single predetermined solution, we open up multiple possibilities, testing different ideas, relationships and directions. Through a multidisciplinary and collective process, these possibilities are discussed, challenged, combined and gradually refined until the project finds its most meaningful form.

For us, collaboration is not simply about working together; it is a way of designing.

Sustainable

Sustainability is at the root of our work. We understand it as a way of designing rather than a goal in itself.

Our approach considers durability, resources, energy, landscape and the long-term impact of what we build. Inspired by the principles of circular economy, we seek to create architecture that consumes less, lasts longer and encourages more conscious ways of inhabiting.

Experimental

We understand architecture as a continuous process of exploration and evolution.

We know the rules and understand the parameters, yet we allow each project to develop without knowing exactly where the process will lead. Through experimentation with geometry, materials, technology and traditional crafts, we search for new possibilities while remaining grounded in the realities of construction.

Every project becomes part of that ongoing evolution.

Music meets Architecture

Both architecture and music influence our state on mind. They’re capable of producing unique emotions. That is no project without rhythm and structure, as there is no emotion without harmony or melody.

In the quest for emotion generators, there is a constant dance between music and architecture. Sometimes the answer comes one, and some from the other. We just have to explore and keep our senses wide open.

Music shows rhythm, silence, harmony, melody and fluidity. These notions are extremely valuable to architecture as tools for the design process.

Basically, by discussing these concepts we can see clearly how architecture and music both speak the very same language.

To listen to the composition process from musical optic: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4HMooDkAgGkywQJWViFBVs

We create exciting designs based on the circular economy, through a creative workshop of constant search and experimentation, made up of a collaborative team.

Matias Mosquera

Founder, Director
Camila Gianicolo

Architect, partner
Milagros Vita

Administration, partner
Francisco Gómez Paratcha

Architect, partner
Cristian Grasso

Architect, partner
Carolina Tobar

Architect, partner
Marcelo Vita

Civil Engineer
Jeff Arias

Architect
Letizia Peli

Intern

Matias Mosquera

Matias Mosquera, Architect, musician, born in 1985 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, attended University of Buenos Aires.

From years 2011 to 2012, he was part of 3XN Design team in Denmark. After that, and through the year of 2020 he started BAM! Architecture along an associate partner, in which they achieved great acknowledgements on their work, including Architecture Biennials and other international organizations.

In the year of 2020, alongside a great team, he started AtelierM, where he furthered his work and exploration about architecture in different scales and regions, thus creating an avant-gard office.

Academically, he is currently teaching Architectural Design in the University of Buenos Aires, and has been doing so since 2018.

His work has been published in over 100 countries, and in several platforms, including Archdaily, Designboom, Dezeen, Clarin Arquitectura, Revista Trama, Living, Homify, Landscape Design, Casas Internacional, Arqa, 1:1, 30-60, Archilover, Architizer, Archello, Barzon, Detail, Design Milk, Catalogo Arquitectura.

Thanks

Agustina Raskin
Lucia Ayerbe Rant
Pilar Navarro
Pacho Riva
Sebastian Karagozlu
Nico Krausse
Irina Demchuk
Dante Marinari
Paulina Szabo
Letizia Peli
Alizée Martin

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San Isidro - PC: 1642 - Buenos Aires - Argentina

MeCa

Location
San Isidro, BsAs, Argentina
Year
2020
Team
Matias Mosquera, Camila Gianicolo, Marcelo Vita
Plantation design
Ayerza & Samaría
Photographs
AtelierM
Structure
Pedro Gea

Meca is an habitational experiment that revolves around Sustenance. This is what represents its clients’ lifestyle and their true self the best. The food cycle is fundamental to the genesis of this project, and this is how we represented it spatially: Located in its center, lies the heart of the house, a big kitchen materialized as a large countertop, where all vital activities flow from. It is a meeting point, where the cooking, nurturing and sharing takes place.
In spite of being in the middle of the house, the kitchen is surrounded by light, vegetation and food. To its south we can find a pond, refreshing during the summer, but it also links the heart with blossoming aromatic flora. To the east, lies the ample orchard, purposely located close at hand from the cooking area. To the north is where the Garden - Living room - kitchen axis is consolidated.

Its remarkable how the heart of the house, while being in the geographic center, still gives the impression of being on the outside. The interior / exterior limits are blurred by the architectural elements, such as the floor to ceiling windows that disappear behind the concrete walls. These support the upper floor volume, where the private dimension takes place, floating amongst the ash’s tree tops and once again, dematerializing the boundary that separates the outside from the inside.

The exteriors are flooded with carefully curated houseplants, thus creating a special ambiance. This is also replicated on top of the house, as a culmination of the concept. One of the main notions for the garden was to preserve the previously existing Ash trees. According to mythology and popular beliefs, these trees have the power of allowing the energy to flow back and forth from the earth. Moreover, they are long lasting, which makes them into a perfect paragon of the struggle for life.

On the ground floor, visuals are prolonged by the scenery, and connection to the outside is constant, despite of being sited in a residential area. The planes which the user looks into and connects to, are well thought through. Furthermore, where visual protection is needed, filters and thicker patches are added, still allowing air and light to come through them in every case.

The result is a simultaneously opened and closed space. Conceived to be environmentally efficient, all of its spaces are naturally ventilated and illuminated, with eaves that act as a barrier during the summer, and which allow the sun to come through during the winter. The house is shut towards the south, but it opens up towards the north. The ventilation and lighting fluxes are essential to MeCa, and there is where materiality takes a leading role.

The project is composed by a noble material palette: Concrete on the ground floor and a charred wood volume on the upper floor (using the Japanese ancient technique Shou Sugi Ban). Their selection and composition isn’t by chance, but well thought out. For instance, the concrete structure on the ground level allows for spatial amplitude, essential for the visual expansion from the heart of the house. Furthermore, burnt wood is not only insect repellent, water and fireproof, but it provides the perfect natural frame to enclose the visuals, with a monolithic frame. In the evening, the charcoaled wood ceiling dark tone is heightened as it merges outwards with the night sky

Said elements provide, along with exterior natural sunlight, a powerful but serene lighting on the ground floor. Its’ juxtaposition between the darkness of the ceiling, encourages a calm, diaphanous illumination which translates onto the user experience, freeing tensions, and thus contributing to a general wellness feeling.

On the private Upper Floor area, amid the ash tree tops, you can feel the scent of the kiri-wood covered walls: They also contribute to the warmth and lighting that reigns between the bedrooms and resting areas.

Finally, if you climb all the way to the top of the house, you’ll find a true Urban Oasis, bursting with diverse vegetation. The rooftop is visually entangled with the ash’s tree tops, creating a unique sensation.

MeCa is an interactive house, not because its plagued with top notch technology, but because of what takes place on its outside: a rich, biodiverse world where there’s always something going on. Caterpillars turning into butterflies, which fly amongst the flowers and swirl around insects, bees feeding between the shrubbery. The orchard, with its seasonal crops, the water cycle that moves and reflows: from rain to an irrigation system, from pool to natural bio filter and vice versa, they’re all an infinite loop of natural sequences.

We can see the modern influence of architects such as Le Corbusier, Kahn, amongst other greats, in the clean cuts and functionality of the design. However, the house also reveals the potential & contemporaneity that comes from constructive experimentation, the reinterpretation of the ways to inhabiting based on nutrition, and the consciousness of this whole process. In this game of tradition, reconstruction and metamorphosis, which embodies the circle of life itself, is where MeCa’s true richness lies.