A Campo Traviesa is a young architecture firm based in Brazil. Founded in 2024, it encompasses an independent practice by Agu Sienra Chaves.
Despite its very small size, it is emerging by receiving 4 awards at recent international competitions, modestly gaining recognition.
It expertise is consolidating at all scales: urban, architecture, carpentry and product design.
The name A Campo Traviesa, which would be approximately equivalent to 'off-road' / 'road-less' / 'cross country', condensates its essence:
It means a strong conviction with co-discovering new paths within the disciplines that shape our physical spaces. Treating every project with respect to other's milestones that precede us, but with curiosity and without the limits imposed by convention, the firm's name, in Spanish, reflects not only the 'road-less ' English connotations:
The expression has almost a countryside smell: this mental image drives us in the sense of connecting both previous natural essences with the future of sustainability, as a concept is not yet fully defined, with boundaries that we aim to slowly challenge through responsible creativity.
Mexico Pavilion, Busan Wold Expo 2030
Busan, South Korea
Lab
Part of our experience encompasses material tests, micro services, carpetry and cabinet making services, building maintainance supervision and consulting. Also, several publications complete a broad approach to architecture, nurturing it from these various sides. This experimental attitude is denominated here as the Lab.
In the past years, e.g., we adopted the approach known as design-build studio, for some of our small timber completed works.
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 nexts months. Right now, more than 50 architects, urbanists, lawyers and engineers are part of the group of the HUB, all participants of the TXM program.
With this sort of inherent flexibility of the abovementioned procedure, to understand and rethink future projects and clients' needs, to unleash youth's ideas in our approaches: a journey has just started. Thank you to walk with us A campo traviesa for what will be next.
A Campo Traviesa - Cooperārī (ACT-Co) is going to be the non-for-profit arm of the for-profit firm, as contemporary challenges also demand action from social organizations.