Architects & Builders

Designing Architect for the Complete STEKO® Homes

In 2006, o2 Architecture was founded in Palm Springs, California. The firm’s unwavering goal to discover the essence of place drives a process that engages the senses and intellect with a poetic connection to site, culture and ecologically crafted modernism. To this end, sustainable design has always been pursued as a continuous thread woven throughout the design and construction process. Each project is taken as an opportunity to embrace the culture of place, the particular site’s natural beauty and often demanding natural forces–sun, wind, light, water, earth. We appreciate diversity and see natural forces as dynamic daily and seasonal patterns that allow built form to resiliently harmonize with people and place. Embedded in this thread are immersive explorations into modern social science, technology, systems, products and construction methods. Our firm has extensive experience with the utilization of unique building systems, having pioneered with Blue Sky Building Systems in 2008, an all steel building system that was featured in numerous publications with the most widely distributed article published in the March 2010 Prefab issue of Dwell magazine. With this experience we enter an exciting new venture with Steko Building Systems, South America. Our o2/Steko prototype designs utilize timeless and emerging sustainable practice in an evolved modernist language.

Executing Architects in Uruguay

Arquitecto Juan Gutierrez

Since 2005 he has been developing his studies in the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of the Republic.
In these 10 years of career, he developed, designed and built projects of diverse scales having active participation in multidisciplinary teams, as project manager, advisor or project manager.
He possess experience in non-traditional construction systems and works quality management focused on the best possible price-quality ratio for each project. See Juan Gutierrez work

Arquitecta Maria Raffo Bevilacqua

María Raffo Bevilacqua studied architecture and urbanism at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of the Republic and was certified as an architect and urban planner in 2007. She is a member of the Society of Architects of Uruguay.
For more than 10 years, María has been participating and developing numerous projects in Punta del Este, with vast experience in eastern Uruguay and knowledge in the “single-family housing” category. Also, since then, she has been actively involved in the project management of several foreign architect projects.
In 2009, she carried out the Project and Construction Management of the residential building “Summerville” located in Punta del Este.
In the exercise of her profession, mainly, she dedicates herself to the design of the architectural project and then, to execute the work direction based on the formulated proposal, through a fluid and constant communication with the client and preserving the quality standards that are required. See her work.

STEKO® Certified Building Companies

 

The construction firm ENKEL SMART BUILDING will ensure the quality of the construction. They process and understand the concept of the STEKO® construction. It is a reputable company, with offices in Montevideo and Punta del Este and have a successful track record in high-end and alternative construction for many years.