The Office

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k. delgado cameña arkitekto is a singular practice founded on the principle that architecture need not be expensive and never kitsch. Its focus is providing sustainable solutions to the problems of context, scale, economy, use and technology in every project. Each undertaking is by no means about dogma but rather the exercise of shifting paradigm.

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Keith D. Cameña holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture and a graduate diploma in urban and regional planning.

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He is also a plumber.
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Stilt Apartments

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Stilt Apartments was an official entry to the Design Against the Elements international competition organized by MyShelter Foundation and the United Architects of the Philippines and launched in March 2010. The brief of the competition was to develop a housing prototype that will embody the principles of sustainable design and shall be buildable in the Philippines or elsewhere in the globe. The suggested typology was a mid-rise housing that shall be disaster-resilient, technologically sound, socially sustainable and cost effective.
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Hero shot and context map

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