Interview with Luis Fernando Garcia Ojeda
I'm a Mexican Architect, born and raised in a megalopolis, moved to the Caribbean, about 8 years ago, which change my perspective for architecture.
Design Legend Interview
2 May 2018
Architecture undergrad in Mexico City, and Merida Yucatan, Lighting and furniture Design in Buenos Aires Argentina, Sustainable Built Environment in Sydney, Australia.
The ability to create and built different environments, to affect in a possitive way to humans and the environment.
Choose to become a designer.
Residential and small multifamiliar developments. I wish we can design functional sustainable communities.
Follow their dreams and work hard to achieve them.
The ability to affect in a positive way.
Scale, materiality, and human feeling inside the built environment.
Good design can affect in a positive way to our daily life and activities.
Anyone who wants to built their dream house.
Sustainable community.
Listen carefully to clients necessities, and surprise them with a good design in their budgets.
Mies Van Der Rohe, Toyo Ito, Tadao Ando. Kengo Kuma
The Barcelona Pavilion, The simplicity and purity of the materials in complete harmony with the inner space, and tranquillity feeling inside the space.
Casa PM, The constant contact with nature in each space.
Trust your feelings and express yourself.
Comercial Pilot.
The ability to create and express our inner thought reflected in artistic creations
My Family
Travelling, and the ability to see details in each object, or space.
Clients trusting you to built their houses.
Clear and creative.
Residential House, to maintain or improve our approach to reach sustainable projects.
Affect positively to our clients.
To keep improving and giving good project to all the clients.
Architectural design can change the way we behave and how we react to different spaces. Helping to live and achieve a healthier and sustainable life.
Ecologic Hotel
Every project that is well accepted from the beginning.
To achieve sustainability in every aspect.
Sustainability
Design process 3 to 4 months.
site visit, and clients briefing.
Nature design.
Design sets trends.
To represent our vision into a familiar image to the clients.
Autocad, Sketchup.
The most important element to provoque ambient and feelings inside every project will be reflected by the used of specific materials and colors in the walls, flooring, and ceiling.
Can you design something similar?
I wish I can co-design something with those people.
Yeah, of course, it is always a great idea to co-design with a great minded designer.
People from different backgrounds, nationalities, or style.
The architecture of Hapiness
Studing, experimenting, and thinking out of the box.
Mies Van Der Rohe
I'm glad people appreciate our work
Black, Tokyo, Beach, Sushi, Summer, art supplies, Moleskine
Put out a fire on site, was one of the most extreme experiences in the field.
Solving new problems, and challenges. Studing or researching something new for a specific project.
No at all.
I hope cities and architecture become sustainable in every aspect.
I'm always open to co-design with great minded designers, in every field.
Designer Interview
25 October 2018
Since I remember, my ideal dream was to became and Architect or Airplane pilot. I had always enjoy the feeling and perception of the spaces in terms of atmosphere, psychology and how people behave depending on the space. I took the decision to become an Architect. I started the first half of the Architecture undergrad in Mexico City, finishing the second half in Mérida Yucatán, Mexico.
Mexican firm of collective design, based in the city of Mérida Yucatann, conformed by a group of young professionals, dedicated to providing architectural solutions, applying fundamentals in sustainability, Interior design, furniture design and landscaping.
Design in terms of architecture, should be the creation of functional spaces creating sensorial experiences
Sustainable residential Houses. or small, multifamiliar.
Each design represents a different challenge and approach, but Casa PM, can be one of my favorits, because the clients let us involve in every aspect of the design. Architectural, Interior, Furniture and even landscape design.
The interior design for a corporative office.
Concrete, Wood, Steel and Glass.
The insomnia days
The client necessities.
Freedom, creative, happiness, fullfilness
Reflection, admiration, Calmness, Satisfaction.
The client satisfactions and happiness.
The use of natural resources to provide the project better results, in terms of lighting, views, ventilation.
To design for the well-being of humans and the surrounding environment.
Into a sustainable design.
2016- University Mayab, Merida, Mexico.
From every aspect that I see, feel, touch, smell or touch. Travelling and being open for new experiences. Being outdoors, walking in new places, travelling around.
Difficult to describe our design style. But we can say that we look for the well-being of the users, how space can affect possessively to mind and body.
Merida, Mexico. Yeah it does, at the end it is what I've seen and experience. The economycal and educational situation to achieve sustainability.
Collaborating.
They should understand with each other in personal and professional terms.
First we visit the site, to see the natural conditions of it, to maintain as much as we can. We take a briefing with the clients to see they necessities and budget. We provide our first drafts of functionality and distributions of the spaces in the site. (Floor plan), and a volumetric draft. After that everything is getting into details.
Entrance, Gardens, terraces, kitchens, bathrooms.
Morning meditation, Site visiting, go to office to check work in progress, meetings, night exercise (kitsurf break if the wind give us the opportunity.
Travel, discover, be open to new perspectives, try new things, break your fears and trust in yourself.
The creation of new objects, spaces or ambient to affect in a positive way to the users. Negative - the lack of respect to the profession.
Never forget about the details. Everything is a detail.
Listen, and solving problems.
Pen and paper, photographies, architectural text books, sustainable design news, Autocad, Sketchup.
Each aspect of the design should be schedule.
1 to 4 months.
Can you give us a quick draft before the first payment? haha
Working in a small design firm.
Friends, family, and web searchers.
Residendial House. You can get more into details and personal aspects of the clients.
Finish the current Susitainable built environment design master, and go back home to apply new techniques.
Depending on the project. I like to collaborate with different firms.
Email, to program a phone or video call.