_Projects
Topography, erosion, light, materiality, and memory define the starting point of each project. Before form, there is a condition; before formal intention, a careful reading of the territory.
Each intervention explores the relationship between the built and the natural, understanding the project as an exchange rather than an imposition. The landscape is not a backdrop, but an active agent that moves through space, transforms it, and defines it. Architecture, in turn, inscribes itself within it with precision, seeking a balance between presence and discretion.
Overlaps, shifts, and tensions generate spatial layers that organize movement. Boundaries become porous; interior and exterior enter into resonance. Spaces are not revealed immediately, but discovered progressively through thresholds, variations of light, and changes of scale that construct a sensory experience.
Materiality embraces the passage of time as part of the project. Matter is understood as something living, capable of aging, adapting, and dialoguing with its surroundings. Architecture does not aspire to remain untouched, but to integrate, to transform, to coexist.
Each work is unique because it responds to an unrepeatable condition of time, place, and context. Form is not the origin; it is the consequence of interpreting the visible and invisible forces that inhabit the site.
This project explores an immersive dwelling within the unique landscape of Yakushima. Interpreting the island’s topography and tectonic character, the design establishes a reciprocal relationship between house and forest, allowing each to inhabit the other. Layered forms and shifting volumes create “habitable accidents” that guide movement in resonance with the exterior. A central atrium mediates light and circulation, while materiality embraces erosion and vegetation, fostering a sensory, symbiotic connection with nature.
This urban project acts as a catalyst, breathing new life into an old market and shaping Montevideo’s largest covered public space. It unfolds the neighborhood at multiple scales and rhythms, weaving the urban fabric, generating encounters, and inviting movement, while reinterpreting the city’s memory and everyday life.
Immersed in a pine forest, the project engages delicately with existing trees, creating a dialogue between architecture and nature. Spaces unfold at two scales: an intimate domestic realm framed by a vertical filter, and a broader forest-linked environment beyond. Timber clads the exterior like a living canvas, absorbing light, time, and weather, leaving subtle traces that reveal the passage of seasons. The project seeks a quiet balance, allowing the forest to inhabit the space as much as the architecture inhabits the forest.
This urban project acts as a catalyst, breathing new life into an old market and shaping Montevideo’s largest covered public space. It unfolds the neighborhood at multiple scales and rhythms, weaving the urban fabric, generating encounters, and inviting movement, while reinterpreting the city’s memory and everyday life.
_Experience
2022-2026_ Jean Nouvel_ Architect Designer_Paris
Worked as an Architect and Designer, responsible for the design and coordination of a residential project with a team of 7 architects, overseeing design development, project management, and collaborative problem-solving throughout all project phases.
Worked as an Architect and Designer, responsible for the design and coordination of a residential project with a team of 7 architects, overseeing design development, project management, and collaborative problem-solving throughout all project phases.
2018-2022_ Dubuisson Architecture_ Architecte Designer_Paris
Worked as an architect and designer, actively participating in a variety of public projects across France and Europe, as well as private projects including offices, cultural buildings, metro stations, and sports facilities. Involved in multiple project phases, from design development to coordination and implementation.
2017_ Studio ARLO Collaboration.
Collaborated with Studio ARLO on the design of various office renovation projects across France, contributing to concept development, space planning, interior design, and the implementation of innovative design solutions.
2017_ Lecture University - UdelaR _Uruguay
Delivered a lecture at the Faculty of Architecture titled Context-Sity, sharing my professional experience in Europe and presenting my personal vision of architecture. The talk explored the relationship between city and context, highlighting design strategies, urban thinking, and the importance of responding to cultural and environmental conditions in architectural projects.
2017_ Post degree course_ Sobreexposicion
Completed a postgraduate course on architectural exhibitions, focused on analyzing and critiquing exhibition design and curatorial strategies. My final project, Tutela Compartida, examined the exhibition Scénarios Futurs, exploring its conceptual approach, spatial organization, and narrative strategies. This work was subsequently published in the specialized architecture magazine MAPEO
.2017_ University Teacher_UdelaR_Uruguay
Worked as a teaching assistant in the Betolaza Studio at the Faculty of Architecture in Montevideo, Uruguay, for two years, supporting both 5th- and 3rd-year courses. In the 3rd-year course, delivered a lecture titled In Between, emphasizing the importance of transitional spaces in architectural design and exploring how these spaces shape user experience, circulation, and spatial perception within architectural projects.
2017_ Architecture Degree_Faculty of Architecture, UdelaR, Montevideo, Uruguay
Graduated with honors, completing a final project titled Bida. The project received high praise from the jury and was published in specialized architecture platforms, highlighting its design innovation and conceptual approach.
2017_ Rendering Competition Award
Awarded first prize in the student rendering competition at the International CG.UY event. The winning image was based on my final architecture project, Bida.
Awarded first prize in the student rendering competition at the International CG.UY event. The winning image was based on my final architecture project, Bida.
2012-2014_ Gomez Platero_Uruguay
Worked as an assistant architect and renderer in the executive project department, supporting design control and development during advanced stages of projects. Involved in refining architectural details, producing high-quality renderings, and collaborating with the team to ensure design intent was accurately implemented throughout all phases.
2012-2013_2016-2017_ Studio RE
Worked as an assistant designer and assistant construction manager on residential, lodging, and hotel projects, as well as a masterplan. Contributed to design development, drawings, and project coordination, and later oversaw renovations of a house and a hostel, ensuring design compliance, quality control, and on-site coordination throughout the projects.
_Academic
Postgraduate engagement in architectural exhibitions and research.
Participated in the postgraduate course Sobreexposición at UDEAR, Uruguay, examining architectural exhibitions from both conceptual and spatial perspectives. The course combined theoretical study with critical discussion, fostering a deep understanding of how exhibitions communicate architectural ideas. Culminated in a detailed analysis of a Pavillon de l’Arsenal exhibition in Paris, investigating how to inhabit a single square meter of Parisian windows during COVID-19. The project explored intimacy, spatial perception, and the evolving relationship between individual experience and the urban environment.
My critical work Tutela Compartida, a review of the exhibition Scénarios Futurs held from October 5 to November 7, 2021, was published in MAPEO, an academic architecture journal in Uruguay. The article offers a detailed analysis of the exhibition’s conceptual and spatial strategies, reflecting on how architectural ideas envision possible futures. It contributes to the ongoing discourse in the architectural field, bridging academic critique and professional reflection, and highlighting the role of exhibitions as platforms for exploring, questioning, and imagining architecture in relation to society and context.
Delivered the lecture Context-Sity at the Faculty of Architecture, UdelaR, Uruguay, sharing my professional experience in Europe and presenting my architectural vision. The talk explored the significance of transitional spaces in cities and buildings, emphasizing how context and urban environment shape design strategies and the experience of architectural spaces.
In 2017, my graduation project BIDA (Base for Environmental Diversity Research) was published on Beta Arquitectura, a specialized architecture platform. The project, located on the Uruguayan coast, proposed a responsible intervention within a sensitive landscape. Conceived in timber and prefabricated in parts to minimize impact, it was elevated above the ground to preserve existing vegetation, unfolding as a continuous lookout dedicated to observation and environmental research.
https://www.beta-architecture.com/bida-agustin-galeano-cristina-bonifacino/
As part of my role as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Architecture, I delivered a lecture titled IN-Between, focusing on transitional spaces in architecture. The talk explored thresholds, intermediate conditions, and moments of spatial ambiguity as fundamental elements in shaping experience. It reflected on how in-between spaces mediate relationships—between interior and exterior, public and private—revealing architecture as a continuous sequence rather than a collection of isolated rooms.