Projects
Collaborations
On-site and territorial experience — Necoclí and the Amazon. Not Madebloque-branded projects; prior team work with credit to the respective designers.
How we work Contact usNecoclí · 2019 · Innovation center
Chocolab Integration Center
Design: MEC Arquitectura — Manuela Eblé Cárdenas · View on ArchDaily
Site and operations coordination — Diego Sáenz, collaborator
Chocolab is a cacao development and innovation center: it fosters culture and knowledge exchange for social and sustainable transformation. The building itself shows what is achievable with local materials and an efficient climate response.
On site we coordinated assembly, logistics and field operations with the design team — integrating workshop, local suppliers and commissioning of the educational-production space.
For Madebloque, this case shows the ability to deliver timber architecture with method in a rural-coastal context — a foundation for larger-scale projects.
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Necoclí · 2018 · Experimental housing
Cocohabs
Design: MEC Arquitectura
Site and operations coordination — Diego Sáenz, collaborator
- Structural timber
- Bioclimatic
- Composting toilets
Housing prototype inspired by the cacao-flower decagon: 360° landscape views and modular floor plan. Nearly 90% of the material is melina timber from the farm — lower footprint from local origin and low carbon stored.
Design criteria: cross and stack ventilation, reservoir water with treatment and gravity distribution, natural light without overheating thanks to forest shade.
Direct lesson for Madebloque: timber housing viable in warm-humid climate, with measurable operation and comfort — a bridge toward industrialization and urban scale (mass timber).
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Solano · Caquetá · Community infrastructure
CO+ Amazon Rainforest
Design: Albor Studio
Site and operations coordination — Diego Sáenz, collaborator
Integrated project in the Colombian Amazon: sustainable communities with culturally and environmentally respectful housing and infrastructure. More than architecture, it is participatory design with responsible materials and efficient systems.
In remote territory we coordinated construction, logistics and commissioning of water, sanitation and solar energy systems — with community presence and adaptation to the Caquetá River context.
For Madebloque, CO+ demonstrates social-scale operation: integrating technique, community and material traceability — capacity needed before larger timber development in Colombia.
Reference images © Albor Studio; to be supplemented with construction and community process photography.
