Creating Safe Spaces for Learning: Explore Solis Colomer Arquitectos' Educational Projects in Latin America

Founded in 2002, Solis Colomer Arquitectos has established a strong reputation over the past two decades, designing and constructing projects with both social and commercial impact across Latin America. With over 200 completed works, the firm specializes in institutional architecture with social impact and user-centered commercial architecture. Its mission is clear: to use architecture as a tool to dignify the human experience, especially for those in greatest need.

Conversion of a residence in the Chácara Flora neighborhood houses the new unit of Colégio São Sabas. This project consists of adapting a former residence in the Chácara Flora neighborhood to house the new middle school unit (Ensino Fundamental II) of Colégio São Sabas, located on an urban-scale plot. The proposal includes four classrooms distributed within the original volume of the house, and two additional classrooms located on the lower portion of the site, created by elevating the sports court by half a level. The intervention also includes a dining hall and a multipurpose space open to the outdoors, along with support areas such as administration and coordination rooms.

Set n Rise is a semi-open-air Asian grill restaurant designed to reflect and celebrate the unique terraced landscapes of Bali. Located in Pererenan—a calm and understated neighborhood just minutes from the bustling Canggu area—the project draws inspiration from terasering, the traditional Balinese rice terrace system.

At the Steirereck am Pogusch restaurant, architecture and gastronomy seem to speak the same language: that of the sensitive transformation of raw materials. Local ingredients, like leaves, roots, and flowers, are turned into surprising dishes, where simplicity is elevated to the extraordinary. Likewise, the building, far from being a static structure, offers a unique tactile and visual experience. One of the most intriguing elements is the use of stabilized foamed aluminum panels that, rather than evoking the coldness and rigidity often associated with metal, have been manipulated to transcend their conventional characteristics. They seem to breathe, with their porous, textured surfaces absorbing and reflecting light, creating a play of shadow and brightness that evokes the lightness and organic quality of natural materials.