Mínimo Común Arquitectura: Collective Practice Redefining Architecture in Paraguay

Paraguayan firm Mínimo Común Arquitectura, founded by Solanito Benítez, Sergei Jermolieff, and Verónica Villate, employs dialogue as a core design tool, engaging with clients, builders, and site conditions to create innovative, low-cost, replicable solutions. Their projects include Casa María Emilia, featuring prefabricated panels, and Oficinas Nordeste, with brick textures creating light effects. In a remote agricultural area 350 km from Asunción, they built offices entirely from on-site pressed earth bricks, with a wind-screening celosia and a steel-cable tensile roof that collects rainwater. After four years, the trio was named among Archdaily's Best Young Practices and shortlisted for the 2021 Moira Gemmill Prize. They are now completing their first rammed earth house, a technique new to Paraguay, and emphasize a constant learning process aimed at high social impact, addressing climate, economic, and health crises by offering an alternative, inclusive architecture.