Ágora Silvestre: Where Coffee Meets Garden Design

Ágora Silvestre has no centre. It doesn't need one.

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Light breaks across the garden in patches; shadow shifts. In Mexico City, a very light, very ephemeral structure slips in between the existing vegetation and settles into the site. That's Ágora Silvestre, an architectural and landscape intervention by ERRA (Kanak Studio, Macarbol & ETARQ) developed in partnership with La Marzocco for Design House 2026 as part of Design Week Mexico. It takes an existing garden and turns it into a café and gathering place. The proposition is very simple: a collective space doesn't need a centre.

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The project is about where architecture, landscape and coffee culture intersect. It treats the café and the garden as part of a conversation, not a building sited on a lawn.

The structure responds to the garden's natural conditions. It frames the changing patterns of illumination and shadow. It dissolves the boundary between the built and the natural.

Coffee is part of that exchange. Buna run the coffee side.

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The ancient Ágora is the starting point. ERRA reads it for today as a collective space with no defined centre. Architecture and landscape are inextricably linked as one experience. The garden becomes a place for gathering, exchange, and mutual experience.

Ágora Silvestre is a partnership among Kanak Studio, Macarbol and ETARQ, the three practices behind ERRA. Together they bring architecture, landscape design, construction and furniture into a single project.

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An Ágora without a centre. A garden of conversations.

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Credits & Informations

• Project: Ágora Silvestre

• Event: Design House 2026 — Design Week Mexico

• Location: Mexico City, Mexico

• Year: 2026

• Design: ERRA — Kanak Studio, Macarbol & ETARQ

• Collaboration: La Marzocco

• Coffee Operation: BUNA

• Photography: Álvaro Gutiérrez and Armando Juárez

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About ERRA

ERRA is a Mexico City-based collective formed by three creative practices: Kanak Studio, Macarbol & ETARQ, founded by Álvaro Gutiérrez, Esteban de la Macorra, and Erick Téllez. Bringing together architecture, landscape design, construction, and furniture, ERRA explores the relationship between built environments and nature through a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach. The collective develops spaces that blur the boundaries between architecture and landscape, creating environments that encourage interaction, connection, and new ways of inhabiting outdoor spaces. ERRA approaches architecture and landscape as a single, interconnected experience.