Gabriel Olivera

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The term 'minimalism' was created for an art form that did not want to be painting nor sculpture but ended up being a bit of everything. The british critic  Richard Wollheim employed first in 1965 as a reference to the radical rationalism promoted by the new tendencies in art. Since then, this term has grown and evolved til being applied everywhere, architecture to start with.
Minimalism can be considered as the contemporary artistic current utilizing the elemental geometry of forms. For it is form that establishes a close relationship with the sorrounding space. This way, the artist focuses only in the object, avoiding all other possible connotations.

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CARACTERISTICS

  • - Abstraction
  • - Economy of language and means
  • - Production and industrial standardization
  • - Literal use of material
  • .- Ornamental austerity
  • - Functional and structural purism
  • - Order
  • - Rectilinear elemental geometry
  • - Precision of execution
  • - Synthetical reduction
  • .- Simplicity
  •  Concentration
  • - Front leading role
  • - Desmaterialization

OUR KNOW HOW



We assemble within our team all competences - artistic, technical and managerial - necessary to carry out the project.
This approach assures a better control of the projects and better communication.
Our activity is exerted with service companies and particulars, in new buildings as well as in renovations

  • TO LISTEN
    What are yours needs ? Wat is your budget ? What are the urban and technical constraints of your project ? Its principal characteristics are approached in a first graphic draft.
  • TO DESIGN
    The design phase incudes all the studies and approaches preliminary to the realization of the project, and in particular: establishment of plans and technical specifications, and requests for autorizations.
  • TO DIRECT
    When work is carried out by several contrators, it is essential to organize, plan and coordinate their interventions on the building site in order to assure an optimal passing off.
  • TO CONTROL 
Control consists in checking that work is carried out in accordance with the technical plans and specifications, and the work planification. It also includes to check the requests for payement of the contractors.

TO PROJECT WHAT...

To project what will be built, it is before any being with the listening of the whole of the components of the environment called to receive the construction which will owe, in its turn, magnifier this environment, while getting tallies of life to its occupants.

Just as sculpture, construction occupies space and it will have, moreover, the privilege of practical application.

It is up to the architect to orchestrate volumes, lights and matters so that, as part of the response to the needs that guided the project, it results in an emotional  use of interior space.

TOTAL QUALITY

  •  TOTAL QUALITY
    To construct buildings which correspond to your dreams, with your wishes. The project requires complete control of the processes of design and execution, from the development of the plans until the maintenance of the installations. Our approach is total and not exclusively constructive. It takes into account all of the aspects of the project. Our step is proactive. Construction is an adventure which is not managed step by step.
  • PARTNERSHIP
    We maintain close cooperation between the various actors of the project. A close collaboration makes possible to mobilize the energies necessary to the realization of your projects. This collaboration is developed in a spirit of mutual recognition, participation and responsibility.
  • HORIZONTAL ORGANIZATION
    According to their competences and of their sensitivity, we entrust your project to collaborators who will follow it throughout its course to completion.