2024 – Master's Thesis in Architectural and Urban Design, National University of Córdoba.
2015 – Degree in Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, National University of Córdoba. 2014 – Exchange student at Universidade Federal do Paraná (Brazil).
Professional Experience
2024 – Present – Independent development of architectural projects and services.
2019 – Present – Founding Partner of RARE Estudio Experimental, leading and coordinating projects in architecture, art, and design.
2017 – 2019 – Project Manager and Project Leader at Estudio Montevideo.
2017 – Architectural work at Randja Studio, Paris. 2016 – Architectural work at Derivatallerdearquitectura, Córdoba.
Teaching Experience
2022 – 2024 – Teaching Assistant in "Architecture IIA".
Lead Architect: Adolfo Mondejar, Córdoba.
2015 – 2018 – Teaching Assistant and Researcher in "Architecture IV". Lead Architect: Ian Dutari.
Awards and Publications
2022 – Honourable Mention in the "Building Art" Sculpture Contest, celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Construction Chamber, in collaboration with the Córdoba Culture Agency.
2021 – Curator and exhibitor of the group exhibition "Praise of Texture", held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Río Cuarto.
2019 – "On the Body and Space", art exhibition at the House of Culture, in collaboration with architect and artist Agustín Willnecker (Fourth Quarter).
2018 – Painting Acquisition and Exhibition Award in the Provincial Painting Hall Art Contest, House of Culture, Río Cuarto.
2017 – Exhibition of nal graduation work at the Latin American ICOMOS Committees Meeting on 20th-Century Industrial Heritage, Buenos Aires.
2015 – Presentation of the nal graduation project "Ex Fábrica Tampieri" at Università degli Studi di Ferrara and Università di Narni, Italy.
2015 – Honourable Mention and Painting Exhibition in the Provincial Painting Hall Art Contest, House of Culture, Río Cuarto.
2014 – Publication of nal project "School of Art and Craft", included in the 4th UNC Architecture Chair Book.
2014 – Publication of nal project "Eco-Sustainable Neighbourhood", included in the Urbanism 1A UNC Chair Book.
2014 – Honourable Mention in the "Equipment A" Chair for the outstanding nal project "Casa de Provincia", UNC.
2014 – Pre-selected in the Ibero-American TIL Award Competition, with project exhibited at the University of Morón.
Postgraduate Courses
2024 – Master's Thesis in Architectural and Urban Design, National University of Córdoba.
2018 – FAUD Pedagogical Training Course, UNC.
2016 – Course accredited by the University of Zurich (ETH), "Livable Future Cities", EDX Virtual Platform.
Workshops & Seminars
2022 – Design Coordinator for Sound Devices at the "Suena la Ciudad" Music Biennial, Córdoba.
2022 – Participant in the UCC Lab Workshop with Macías Peredo Studio, Catholic University of Córdoba.
2017 – Coordinator and Speaker at the "Gravity as Materiality" Workshop, National University of Córdoba.
2017 – Working Group Guide at the "Cultural Artefacts" Workshop, National University of Córdoba.
2016 – Participant in the "Public Platforms" Workshop – Ideas for Plaza España, Córdoba.
2014 – Participant in the International Student Conference on Urban Sustainability, Curitiba.
2014 – Participant in the Urban Mix Workshop – Manzana Tampieri, San Francisco.
2012 – Participant in the International Seminar on the Tica San River with architect Gustavo Restrepo, Río Ceballos.
Congresses & Conferences
2024 - Speaker at the lecture series in the subjetc “Teoría y Crítica” organised by University of Belgrano of Buenos Aires.
2024 – Speaker at the lecture series "Uniendo Trayectorias", organised by FADU, National University of Córdoba.
2023 – Speaker at the lecture series organised by the R1 College of Architects, Córdoba.
2022 – Speaker at Architecture and Interior Design Week: Conceptual Design – Master Plan, Córdoba.
2022 – Speaker at Universidad del Valle, Bolivia.
2015 – Attendee at the International Argentine Architecture Biennial, Córdoba.
2014 – Attendee at the Principles 2014 symposium, International Architecture Biennial of Argentina, Córdoba.
2013 – Participant in the 18th Congress – Living in the City: Time and Space, Archisur, Córdoba.
2013 – Attendee at the "Americano del Sud" Conversation, Córdoba.
2013 – Assistant at the Honoris Causa award ceremony for architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Córdoba.
Computer Skills
AutoCAD, SketchUp, Adobe Photoshop, CorelDRAW, Lumion, O ce
Languages
Spanish – Native English – Upper-Intermediate Portuguese – Upper-Intermediate French – Basic
A PROSTHESIS.
Ca é del Popolo is one of those experimental projects that emerge in spaces often considered unusable or obsolete within the city. The intervention took place in a triangular void between two residential blocks in the Nueva Córdoba neighbourhood. The sense of compression imposed by its surroundings served as the starting point for the design, which was conceived from the outset as an architectural device that would seamlessly integrate into the site—an "urban prosthesis".
The project explores how to engage with a dense urban environment, acting both within and towards the city. The relationship with the street was a fundamental premise, as the intention was to introduce a pause within the ow of urban movement—a space for contemplation.
Year: 2021
intention was to introduce a pause within the ow of urban movement—a space for contemplation.
Project: RARE Studio
Agustín Willnecker, Mateo Unamuno, Ivan Ferrero, Collaboration: María Belén Marinelli.
Photo: Ana Salazar
ZAC DE L’ECOQUARTIER
The housing project for the Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine district, in northern Paris, consists of two building blocks uni ed by a commercial base. Incorporating both social housing and private residences, the proposal reinterprets the area’s industrial identity.
Under a sustainability-driven approach, the design reuses bricks from the former warehouse
Project in collaboration with FARID AZIB Architectes
Project made as an intership with Farid Azib Architecte
The Cahors cinema complex is a agship project, the culmination of a strategy to revitalise the city centre. This multiplex is conceived as a landmark—a tower visible from all directions, discernible from the surrounding amphitheatre-shaped hills.
As a structuring element within the urban fabric, the project strengthens the connection between Bessières and Charles de Gaulle squares, enhancing spatial continuity.
This project takes advantage of a small residual space adjacent to an existing home, transforming it into an 11m² o ce. A lightweight metal structure was used, allowing for a large opening to the exterior, fostering a direct connection with nature. The use of black as the primary colour helps the volume blend harmoniously into its surroundings.
Project and execution by Studio RARE: Mateo Unamuno, Agustín Willnecker, Ivan Ferrero, María Belen Marinelli, Federico Rolón, Leonardo Cagliero.
Year: 2023
The color black tries to blend into the environment.
Project by Studio RARE: Mateo Unamuno, Agustín Willnecker, Ivan Ferrero
Collaboration: María Belen Marinelli
Year 2022
By maximising the site’s orientation and views, the project seeks to create a spatial and material atmosphere that engages with the surrounding landscape and re ects the local identity.
We consider architecture to be inherently contextual, belonging to a speci c time and place. Therefore, this project establishes a dialogue with its environment through materiality, texture, and the spatial relationship with the outdoors.
The oor plan is divided into three distinct volumes, transitioning from public to private spaces. The o ce faces the street, the social areas occupy the central sector, and the bedrooms are located at the rear. These spaces are articulated through a series of courtyards that provide privacy while maintaining a strong connection to the outdoors.
Project by Studio RARE: Mateo Unamuno, Agustín Willnecker, Ivan Ferrero
Collaboration: María Belen Marinelli
Year 2021
We consider architecture as a situated fact, which belongs to a time and a place
Gravity as materiality generates a volume that acts as a protagonist in the landscape
This single-family home is located in a neighbourhood of Córdoba. The interaction with the topography and the compact nature of the design result in a "light" structure resting upon a solid, earth-anchored base. Gravity, as an architectural element, de nes a volume that becomes a focal point within the landscape while taking full advantage of the site’s views.
Collaboration: María Belen Marinelli
Graphic: Nicolas Godoy
Project by Studio RARE: Mateo Unamuno, Agustín Willnecker, Ivan Ferrero
Year 2022
The Tregua project consists of a restaurant with a cocktail bar, designed to strike a balance between raw materials such as stone, concrete, and natural textures, and re ned, polished details. This contrast creates a carefully balanced atmosphere, o ering a welcoming experience both during the day and at night.
Project by Estudio RARE: Mateo Unamuno, Agustín Willnecker, Ivan Ferrero
Colaboration:
María Belen Marinelli
noise, the cars, the metal sheets, the lights… The street. A series of actions (from outside to inside) aimed at generating new relational dynamics between what was once a shop window and the public space. A manifesto: to use the pavement, to occupy the street, and once again, to begin erasing the boundaries between the interior and the previously non-existent exterior.
Project by Estudio RARE: Mateo Unamuno, Agustín Willnecker, Ivan Ferrero
Colaboration: María Belen Marinelli
to use the pavement, to occupy the street, and once again, to begin erasing the boundaries between the interior and the previously non-existent exterior.
This house, nestled in the hills of Córdoba, was designed for a client who seeks meaning in spirituality and its connection to the sky. The architecture serves as an expression of this worldview, establishing a dialogue with the surrounding landscape through its materiality and composition.
The architecture does nothing more than represent this way of seeing the world .
Collaboration:
Project by studio RARE with Monte
Architecture: Mateo Unamuno, Agustín Willnecker, Ivan Ferrero and Fabricio Prosperi
María Belen Marinelli Graphic: Nicolas Godoy
This project explores the interplay between light and form, creating a dynamic and exible space where both elements interact as a whole. While the structure remains static, the movement of light generates shifting gures and atmospheres within the interior, capturing the passage of time in the space. An additional challenge was posed by the site—an old paddle court upon which the new volume was built. The existing perimeter walls, which originally supported the uneven terrain, had to be preserved as part of the new structural framework.
Project by Studio RARE: Mateo Unamuno, Agustín Willnecker, Ivan Ferrero
Graphic: Nicolas Godoy
Photo: Jorge Barucco
The dynamic of the light expresses di erent gures and atmospheres in the interior.
Project by Studio RARE: Mateo Unamuno, Agustín Willnecker, Ivan Ferrero
Graphic: Nicolas Godoy
Photo: Jorge Barucco
At House to Walk, there is neither a beginning nor an end. With every step, we repeat: "There is no path; the path is made by walking." If you do not walk, you do not discover; if you do not discover, you do not nd your inner self. Walking is dynamic, and so is the house. Because it is dynamic, it can change.
Walking is primitive. House to Walk is an artistic performance. The house is the landscape, for in the landscape we have walked, we walk, and we shall walk. It is a composition of stones and bricks, gathered by a land artist—some from the mountains, some from the city—then scattered at the foot of a hill according to an organic yet rational order.
There are pauses along the way, for if you do not rest, you do not walk. If walking is a machine, then this machine is powered by the sun and the moon. It is not a single image but many images—perhaps, more accurately, a lm.
Collaboration: María Belen Marinelli Graphic: Nicolas Godoy
Year 2022
The house is landscape, because in the landscape we walked, we walked and we will walk.
Project by Studio RARE: Mateo Unamuno, Agustín Willnecker, Ivan Ferrero
The HOUSE is situated between these two elements. It acts as an intermediary space between this duality—uni -
On one hand, it is an object rooted in the ground, its weight anchoring it. The HOUSE, entirely stereotomic, belongs to the earth. The entire structure is an extension of the terrain, where gravity becomes materiality. It evokes primitive, essential sensations—perhaps, the fundamental human experience of sheltering in a cave.
The feeling of time in nature is another.
But to be in contact with the earth is also to be in contact with the sky. The sky counterbalances this mass, bathing spaces in light, linking us with nature, and marking the passage of time. Urban time, compressed and accelerated, contrasts with natural time—expansive and silent.
This courtyard is a meeting point and a gathering, at the same time as it is a hallway, entrance, circulation, articulation and distribution.
A special commission: a holiday home for multiple families. A series of bedrooms arranged around a central courtyard, which serves as a meeting place, a gathering space, and at the same time, an entrance, a passage, an articulation, and a distributor.
The design establishes a dialogue with Córdoba’s ancient architecture, drawing inspiration from Andalusian dwellings and Roman villas. The experience of being outside within an enclosed space became the driving concept behind the house, where a sequence of courtyards de nes the spatial organisation. This is a continuous conversation between history and context, situated by the Los Molinos Dam.
Project by Studio RARE with Salvador Maglione Arch. Photo: Lorenzo Egues Year 2021
Project: Studio RARE with Salvador Maglione Arch.
Photo: Lorenzo Egues
After interpreting the client’s speci c requirements in relation to a plot near Los Molinos Dam (Córdoba), within a semi-urbanised, low-density private development, the project seeks to create an architecture that—through precise modulation—ensures e ciency in both construction and material usage.
A simple geometric approach was chosen, not only to standardise processes but also to incorporate pre-fabrication methods, reducing construction time. The design establishes two distinct relationships with its surroundings: one engaging with the vastness of the landscape, the other creating a more intimate, domestic courtyard. The use of brick as both enclosure and interface with the exterior fosters a more organic dialogue with the natural environment, adopting a language that will age gracefully over time.
Project by Studio RARE: Mateo Unamuno, Ivan Ferrero, Agustín Willnecker
Year 2021
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Generate an architecture that, through a speci c modulation, be e cient in terms of assembly and use of material.
Where can we nd the human scale within the vastness and order imposed by the natural environment at the foot of Tupungato?
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We traverse divergent paths, searching for an anonymous space—one that embraces natural heritage. Perhaps, in the thin line between sky and earth, we have found a clue to that initial question.
Team project: Mateo Unamuno, Ivan Ferrero, Agustín Willnecker y Fabricio Prosperi Construction: Fabricio Prosperi - Monte Arquitectura
A temporary, habitable-scale artistic and architectural intervention in public space, created in collaboration with artist Dino Valentini for the 3rd Córdoba Design Biennial.
Through a series of elements, operations, and programmes, it constructs a FORM with access to its interior but no access to its centre—an OTHER, non-binary form. It introduces a spatial tension, challenging the possibility of inhabiting and traversing a space without a de ned centre, paradoxically located in the heart of Córdoba.
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with access to its interior, but without access to its centre
Suppressing the promise of what it means to access the nucleus, eliminating appearances and enabling the same portal of access and escape from a desegmented territory.
Project and execution by Studio RARE: Mateo Unamuno, Agustín Willnecker, Ivan Ferrero, Dino Valentini.
Collaboration: Pedro Chopitea and María Belen Marinelli. Year: 2021
A formal and material exploration inspired by the architect Lina Bo Bardi, resulting in a unique piece of furniture—a "little bench" designed with a public vocation, paying tribute to
The piece must be on the street to be used by all people.
Project and Execution by Estudio RARE: Mateo Unamuno, Agustín Willnecker, Ivan Ferrero
Collaboration: Tomas Barros
Year: 2021
Inspired by 19th-century industrial architecture, we repurposed an abandoned warehouse into the new Becken o ces. The exterior preserves the industrial aesthetic, reminiscent of a factory by the river, while the interior o ers a warm, exible, and welcoming workspace.
Taking advantage of the warehouse’s double-height structure, we introduced two mezzanines with distinct functions—one social and one private—linked by a bridge that spans the entire space, becoming the architectural icon of the project.
Year: 2019
A friendly and comfortable work environment inside, with a warm and exible design.
MASTER IN ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN DESIGN – UNC
"The path can and should be exclusively the school, at all its levels, in all its branches, and the school, any school, must educate to build the city as a sensible form of civilisation."
—Giulio Carlo Argan (2003)
Designers, architects, and urban planners generate knowledge through the practice of Project. This particular mode of thought operates on the possibilities of transforming reality, engaging complex cognitive processes of interpretation, pre guration, and strategic material/spatial realisation.
These are not merely sequential stages of a linear process but rather concurrent dimensions of an intellectual act—one that in uences and reshapes reality. In this sense, Project is assumed as a distinct form of knowledge production.
To design, one learns by designing—that is, by constructing a complete simulation of reality and developing the dimensions of thought through action, in order to transform that reality both spatially and materially.
py to (dis)connect, revisiting essential questions tied to childhood, memory, needs, tensions, and anxieties.
Looking back with greater awareness, I recognise the necessity of valuing the instant—the spontaneous emergence of a work, driven by instinctive impulse.
A few minutes, or perhaps a few seconds that in reality express a time of questions, experimentations and experiences with drawing and painting.
