Rodrigo Carazo

Rodrigo Carazo, born in Costa Rica in 1978, founded Carazo Arquitectura in 2005 where he is the principal of design. He has lived in a very direct connection to natural environments; this has molded his perception of space, guiding him as an architect with a practice evolving from single-family residences to medium and large scale residential, commercial and mixed-use biophilic projects. Since his beginnings in the profession, his work has been closely related to sustainable design as well as the exploration and reinterpretation of spatial programmatic relationships; in a natural process his work has focused towards Biophilic Design which is the main driving force in his studio today, where projects are developed through a personal design methodology focusing on-site responsiveness as well as the integration of Layered Biophilic Design which focuses on having a positive effect on perception and wellbeing by integrating layers of natural elements in different situations of proximity; immediate/interior, secondary/façade and roof, tertiary/site, and so on. He is currently president of the Sustainable Construction Committee of the Costarican Construction Chamber as well as a local board member of the Costarican Chapter of the Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, where he has also become a Global Leader actively participating in the promotion of innovative building and urban design topics focused on biophilia, vertical urbanism and symbiotic relationships between nature and cities.