• Somatic: of the body; bodily; physical. Of, relating to, or affecting the body

Somatic Collaborative is a research based design practice, which focuses on a speculative approximation to architecture and urbanism, and engages a wide host of material geographies and design procedures. Cutting across multiple scales – from interior furnishings to open territories – Somatic uses the architectural commission, design competitions, and diverse forms of applied research as conduits that facilitate an inventive construction of space.

As an underlying framework, Somatic Collaborative develops alternative methods of imaging landscapes, territories, and processes (material and social) that may or may not fall within the traditional architecture or urban office paradigm, but rather engages the numerous scales of the built environment. We have collaborated on projects for governments, institutions, and foundations amongst others.

Somatic Collaborative es un estudio con una aproximación especulativa hacia la arquitectura y el urbanismo. Se enfoca en investigar diversas geografías materiales y en estas explora múltiples estrategias de diseño. Abarcando una variedad de escalas –desde interiores hasta territorios abiertos – Somatic utiliza diversos medios de exploración, principalmente encargos arquitectónicos, concursos de ideas, y diversas formas de investigación aplicada, como conductos que facilitan una aproximación creativa hacia el diseño.