We design and bring to life places that could not have existed anywhere else. Places where space, identity, and experience are born from the same ground.

ARCHITECTURE ROOTED IN TERRITORY
( 1 ) Territory Understading
( 2 )    Nature Integration
( 3 )    Community Integration
( 4 )    Local Resources
( 1 ) Territory Understading
( 2 )    Nature Integration
( 3 )    Community Integration
( 4 )    Local Resources
ONE PLACE, ONE IDEA

The place is not assembled after the fact. It is conceived whole from the beginning.

Fig.1   MUSA Master Plan
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Hotelito at Musa
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Hideaways
Fig.4   Playa Fiesta
Fig.5   Thompson Zihuatanejo
Fig.6   Casa Tsili
Fig.7   Casa Parota
Fig.8   Alzamar
Fig.9   Casa Ánima
Fig.10   Casa Creta
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AS.D KEEPS ALL THE LAYERS TOGETHER
AS.D KEEPS ALL
THE LAYERS TOGETHER

Creative direction, architecture, interiors, activation, community, 
and operation are held as one system.

WHAT WE DESIGN

What the place asks us to make.

Creative direction

The story that shapes the whole experience. Naming, narrative, identity, and expression drawn from the place itself. The brand belongs to the territory before it belongs to a logo.

ARCHITECTURE

Buildings that read the ground before they touch it. The land, the climate, the slope, the view, the way the light moves through the day. Architecture is designed from the source.

INTERIORS

Rooms shaped by use, material, light, and time. Interiors are not decoration after architecture. They are how the place is held, touched, used, and remembered.

WHAT WE DESIGN

What the place asks us to make.

INTERIORS

Rooms shaped by use, material, light, and time. Interiors are not decoration after architecture. They are how the place is held, touched, used, and remembered.

ARCHITECTURE

Buildings that read the ground before they touch it. The land, the climate, the slope, the view, the way the light moves through the day. Architecture is designed from the source.

Creative direction

The story that shapes the whole experience. Naming, narrative, identity, and expression drawn from the place itself. The brand belongs to the territory before it belongs to a logo.

WHAT WE BRING TO LIFE

Experiences that make
the place alive.

Activation

The program that gives a place its pulse. The reasons people come, return, gather, stay longer, and feel the place has a rhythm of its own.

Community

People, rituals, and relationships.
A place is not made only by what is built. It is made by who inhabits it, who returns to it, and what begins to happen there.

operation

From idea to opening day. A place is not finished when it is built. It is tested every day after — in service, rhythm, use, care, and attention.

WHAT WE BRING TO LIFE

Experiences that make the place alive.

Activation

The program that gives a place its pulse. The reasons people come, return, gather, stay longer, and feel the place has a rhythm of its own.

COMMUNITY

People, rituals, and relationships.
A place is not made only by what is built. It is made by who inhabits it, who returns to it, and what begins to happen there.

operation

From idea to opening day. A place is not finished when it is built. It is tested every day after — in service, rhythm, use, care, and attention.

Selected Work (  10  )

PREVIEW
TYPOLOGY
LOCATION

How we think

A place will tell you what it wants to be. Most people don't ask. We start every project on the ground — with the territory, the climate, the people who'll work there and the ones who'll stay. The design is the last layer, not the first.

01. LISTEN

Read the territory, the business, the people. Describe what's there before deciding what's next.

02. POSITION

Decide what the place says, and to whom. The argument always comes before the form.

03. DESIGN

Building, interior and brand drawn as one move — never as three separate briefs.

04. STAY

Open it, run it, keep it honest to the idea. A place isn't finished when it's built.

THE METHOD MADE REAL

Internal brands. Three worlds we built before we built for anyone else.
LOOT, MUSA, and CASITA are independent brands, built by the studio as proof of its method.

LOOT

Cultural Platform

A cultural platform across fashion, music, retail, hospitality, design, and community, with a permanent hospitality outpost.

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MUSA

Regenerative Territories

A platform for territories built around land, community, and long-term stewardship. Born in Loma Bonita, Guerrero. Expanding to Tepoztlán and Panamá.

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CASITA

Pre-designed Product

Pre-designed homes that carry ASD’s method beyond the one-off commission.

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THE METHOD MADE REAL

Internal brands. Three worlds we built before we built for anyone else.
LOOT, MUSA, and CASITA are independent brands, built by the studio as proof of its method.

LOOT

Cultural Platform

A creative platform that takes many forms — fashion, music, retail, hospitality, and more. Loot Surf House is one expression of it. The platform is the parent; the places are the children.

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MUSA

Regenerative Territories

A platform for territories built around land, community, and long-term stewardship. Born in Loma Bonita, Guerrero. Expanding to Tepoztlán and Panamá.

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CASITA

Pre-designed  Product

Pre-designed homes that carry ASD’s method beyond the one-off commission.

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Places and products where the thinking has already survived 
contact with reality.

the studio

Founded by Andres Saavedra in 2003, AS.D was built around a simple problem: buildings are rarely conceived as places.

Most developers assemble separate teams for architecture, interiors, and branding. Each works from a different brief, often resulting in a place that looks one way, communicates another, and feels like something else entirely. AS.D was created to bridge that divide, designing every layer of a project as part of a unified vision.


From Mexico City, the studio works across multiple disciplines, designing places where the physical, the narrative, and the lived experience are born from the same idea.

The studio’s aesthetic blends Japanese wabi-sabi with a contemporary Mexican modernism, pairing local materials—stone, palapa, and tropical wood—with concrete, metal, and glass. The result is architecture defined by restraint, texture, natural light, and a strong sense of place.

Every project begins by understanding its territory, creating places where architecture, landscape, and experience are inseparable from their context. Nothing is imposed before it is understood.

Invest and Build with Us

                     Some places need capital more than they need a client. Here are the three universes we're actively building — and where the right partner could change what's possible.

                           Ways to work with us

01. WORK WITH US

Hire the studio. Bring us a place. We'll tell you what it wants to be — and then we'll make it that.

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Development: JOSH KIRK, Shot in: LOS ANGELES, CA
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02. INTERNAL BRANDS

Borrow what we've proven. Our own places double as a working library of whats holds up.

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Development: JOSH KIRK, Shot in: LOS ANGELES, CA
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03. INVEST WITH US

Build it with us. Some projects need capital more than a client. There's a conversation for that.

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Development: JOSH KIRK, Shot in: LOS ANGELES, CA
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