El Sindicato was born in 2014, when Xavier Duque, Maria Reinoso and Nicolás Viteri joined forces against the boss-employee way of working. They stop working for other people. They do their own thing. What they like the most inside and outside the profession. They affirm that it is not, and they do not want it to be, an architecture office, but a life project.
From Ecuador, their work is collaborative and experimental. They develop skills and general knowledge. They are practical and precise. The Parasite House is one of these. It focuses on solving the basic needs of habitability by ensuring all the comforts of a home in a reduced area of the terrace of a popular building in Quito. The Slope House is another. It seeks to resolve with a single architectural object the varied needs of a family, with a route that provides a solution to the steep slope of the terrain. First and foremost, they use architecture as a tool.
In the following interview with El Sindicato, they tell us in more detail about all their inspirations, motivations, work processes and upcoming projects.
