GOMA Taller de Arquitectura, a Mexico-based architecture firm, has Taller de Arquitectura with members of different ages, all of whom have an irreplaceable role in the team. The firm has a wealth of practical experience in the design and execution of architectural projects, and is still exploring new development paths and creative ideas.

Yinjispace：You name your studio as GOMA TALLER DE ARQUITECTTURA, what does this mean to you? The team composition of your studio?

GOMA：Goma is an office of 3 generations and every person is a big player in the team. 

Yinjispace：How would you describe your design philosophy?

GOMA：We try to have a sensitive approach towards the context, and the feelings the house will produce to this family

Yinjispace：Your design has a strong geometric style. How do you form that with the sense of poetry? There is a geometry？

GOMA：In every project that “feels right” this geometry is arranged in a unique way for every house were space is defined and lets light inside, and at the same time, achieves the programming and functionality. It is like a math equation that solves everything, including the feelings.

Yinjispace：From the early stage of you studio, how do you make your progress for such an achievements? What is the biggest turning point for you?

GOMA：We learned kind of the hard way (still learning), by getting opportunities to build since the beginning, building is the best teacher, and also the toughest. Our turning point seems to be related to getting closer to a mental freedom, by knowing more and fearing less, we can express more freely 

Yinjispace：How do you think Mexican architecture’s international influence nowadays?

GOMA：From our perspective, México as a developing country where there is much to be done, the richness in culture, nature and its weather; this ingredients make a rich environment for the architecture that is being produced.