A Campo Traviesa is a young firm based in Brazil. Founded in 2024, it encompasses an independent practice by Agu Sienra Chaves.
Despite its very modest current size, the studio's experience spans urbanism, architecture, carpentry and product design, having received international awards in all these scales.
The name —approximately equivalent to "trailblazer" and "road-less mode"— synthetizes its essence:
Discovering new paths to achieve different results in how we build, maintain and relate with natural and human preexistences.
Furthermore, in Spanish, a campo traviesa expression draws key connotations: a pradera's raw smell can almost be felt.
Treating every project with curiosity and respect, reading and listening the context and users, this mental image drives us.
From the elemental wilderness of our Continent we depart, we aim to reconnect previous natural essences with the future of habitats on Earth, where varied disciplines take part.
Mexico Pavilion, Busan World Expo 2030
Busan, South Korea
Lab
We stand for a comprehensive interwinding of the disciplines that shape our physical spaces, at all scales.
This demands a flexible approach, as the way to address problems with profound care about its multiple layers that in fact express on Earth without split categories.
Thus, part of our experience unites material tests, microservices, cabinetmaking, supervision and maintenance consulting. Also, several written works complete a broad approach, eventually nurturing projects from these various sides.
This experimental attitude is denominated here as the Lab.
. ACT is co-participating in the TXM CauLab program, 2026 edition. The 2025 initiative of a hub with muiltple professionals based in Brazil is the subject of the Gov+ TXM program.
2025 news! We are 1 of the 55 selected firms that completed the TXM methods 'CAULab', a government program for projects acceleration.
As one of the outputs, ACT is co-founding the 'HUB de Arquitetura' within next months.
A Campo Traviesa - Cooperārī (ACT-Co) is intended to be the non-for-profit arm of the for-profit firm, as contemporary challenges frequently demand action from social organizations.