Mexico-based panorama architects Estudio Ome ‘goal to impress’

The thought of ‘stability’ sits on the coronary heart of Estudio Ome’s work. The younger panorama structure agency from Mexico Metropolis, based in 2018 by the Franco-Mexican duo Hortense Blanchard and Susana Rojas Saviñón, has all the time questioned ‘how we work together with nature and the place to intervene to get the right stability between what’s constructed and what’s alive’, they clarify. Bringing collectively completely different parts and consolidating learnings from various elements of the inventive and bodily world has been a robust device for the pair.

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This duality seems in varied different elements of their work – they mix observe and idea, utilizing drawing as a way for exploration and studying, in addition to a way to form a spot; they usually search to unite artwork and ecology. They clarify: ‘Artwork because the seek for magnificence, for the poetic; our objective is to impress, even by a delicate element, an expertise, a supply of inspiration and interpretation. We outline ecology from an moral perspective because the utmost respect in the direction of nature; every time now we have a fee, we ask ourselves: is the place going to be higher with our intervention or is it higher to do nothing?’

On account of their delicate and on the identical time impactful designs, the awards have saved coming. Amongst them, the pair has scooped ‘Excellent Challenge’ on the 2025 Mies Crown Corridor Americas Prize (MCHAP); the highest gong on the 2024 Rethinking the Future Awards within the Personal Panorama class; and a particular point out on the 2023 Landezine Worldwide Panorama Award’s Personal Gardens class.

This has additionally afforded them a rising portfolio of worldwide work. Engaged on each side of the Atlantic, they’ve been broadening their observe in Mexico and France, increasing this 12 months to the UK too. The 2022 venture, The Ruins, a personal backyard in Mexico, has been central to the evolution of their observe.

Right here, they labored with a sequence of present ecosystems and hydrology administration methods for harvesting run-off water from the location to create a thriving composition of stone, water and planting. It’s a design that doesn’t signify a single second in time. Each 4 months, they return to it for upkeep, which provides to their deep understanding of the place and enriches its current and future.

The five-strong studio is presently engaged on an artwork basis venture with Mexican architect Frida Escobedo, for which they’ve been creating their panorama resolution in a wealthy dialogue with the buildings on website. ‘From the very starting, the method has been formed by an accumulation of notes from the shoppers and designers. We’ve got been redrawing the architectural venture, its materiality, and altering the qualities of sunshine. This system has allowed us to have daring ideas that may be quickly sketched,’ they are saying.

‘We’ve got included drawings of vegetation noticed on the Botanical Backyard of the Nationwide College. In these, our intention is to point out the foliage, the patterns, the motion of the stem, density, and the motion in time, qualities usually troublesome to specific in a venture presentation in any other case. For us, hand drawing brings motion, brings the notion of time, and isn’t that what panorama is all about?’

Despite the fact that they’re optimistic about the way forward for their area, Rojas Saviñón and Blanchard flag the necessity for extra alternatives for schooling amongst panorama professionals and their shoppers: ‘In Mexico, the place now we have been working for the previous eight years, what’s lacking is extra schooling, extra prospects to check. There’s a rising variety of individuals within the area, and there may be work. Hand-in-hand with this comes the notion of the occupation. Usually, expectations are decreased to planting palettes. Our hope is that by broader visibility of the probabilities that panorama holds, richer collaborations will come up.’