5 Solidos is an architecture and interior design studio located in Colombia in northwestern South America. It is a creative studio composed of a multidisciplinary team dedicated to the overall approach of interior design, architecture, branding, furniture and project direction. Their iconic aesthetics and style are the product of the perfect fusion of their 5 areas of focus. Their talent and fresh perspective not only enable them to create internationally recognized projects, but also showcase the incredible talents of Latin American designers.
Yinjispace：Your work has a special kind of luxury. How do you achieve that?
Luxury can have many faces but none more important to us than meaning. Meaning to those who inhabit the space and to what the space represents to its context. When design is respectful, thoughtful and present, it will always find a way to serve a purpose, and will manage to do so through quality and understated elegance.
Yinjispace：How to make the architecture integrate into the landscape?
Understanding architecture is a reflection of is surroundings will always guide the space on how to adapt itself rather than fighting against it. We have found that when design is most disruptive is when it is able be transformed to work with what the landscape is naturally creating.
Yinjispace：Could you talk about the architecture background in Colombia briefly?
Colombia's architectural heritage comes from both Spanish colonial architecture as well as indigenous precarious living infrastructures. Both have been characterized with very different approaches to design. One, more traditional and known throughout the world, and the second, less studied, but with a much more respectful and complete understanding of the countries landscape and biodiversity. Both concepts have evolved into cities with a complex historical background, and have transformed its aesthetic throughout the years with influence from different parts of the world.
Yinjispace：In the five areas that you concentrate on, is there one direction that overwhelms all the others? What is the relationship among them?
On the contrary, we try to reiterate how they are all important, and balancing their contributions to the final design is what creates a holistic approach to our creative process. We try to focus on how to grow each part of our process individually and then connect them as a whole. This is the beauty of interdisciplinary teams, theres always room for adaptation and evolution.
Yinjispace：Do you have any preferences in materials? What ambiance do you want to create by these materials?
We try to use materials that are available to us because we believe they not only behave better with their environments but because we also believe part of a sustainable design process comes from utilizing local sources and exponentiate them through our designs.
Yinjispace：How to balance the proportion between light and materials?
Both are sensorial components that should be considered for different things. Design should have a human approach, how the space will be inhabited and experienced will rely on a combination of its senses. Materials will give the space comfort, utility, usability. While light will expose materials and give them depth, warmth and texture. They should both complement each other without feeling overwhelming over one another.
Yinjispace：What is your architecture philosophy? Have you ever been influenced by other architects or any other professions?
We are definitely very inclined to follow Australian and Brazilian architecture, but it would be a disservice to all of the firms we look up to all around the world to say that these are the only one we are influenced by. We would like however, to incorporate our own heritage and culture more into our design ethos.
