Pachydermata Studio

Pachydermata Studio is a young architecture & design studio originally founded in Mexico City in 2011 by Alfonso Bonilla BArch. Fellow Architect Rob Curley BSc joined in 2014 with the movement of operations to Dublin, Ireland Pachydermata is a systematic term once used to describe a mammal order, from the Greek words: παχύς pachys, “thick” and δερμα derma, “skin”, meaning ‘thick skin’. From an architectural perspective the idea of skin refers to the edge of any spatial envelope. The thickness of this skin comes from a conceptual density of ideas, development and informed research that goes into each project. The usage of systematics and taxonomic terminology attempts to inform relationships between concepts.