At Bethel Architects we understand architecture as an experience capable of transforming the way people inhabit, move through and remember a place.
We design projects that begin with a close reading of the territory — its landscape, culture, materials and purpose — turning every constraint into a design opportunity. Our work brings together architecture, nature, function and spatial narrative to develop proposals with an identity of their own, able to move people and to build lasting connections between them and the space.
We work through a multidisciplinary approach that combines architectural design, bioclimatic strategies, considered materials, organic geometries, advanced visualisation and a full understanding of the user experience. Sustainability is part of the design process itself: passive strategies, daylight, and alternatives that reduce environmental impact.
Our experience is concentrated in hospitality, tourism, experiential architecture, high-impact projects and developments tied to natural settings — where architecture has the potential to become a destination in itself.
Extaciencias
A design philosophy aimed at going beyond the purely functional dimension of architecture, to explore its capacity to provoke wonder, contemplation and aesthetic ecstasy.
We are not here simply to design buildings.
We create places with identity. Architecture that belongs to its territory, stirs emotion, and stays in the memory.
11
Projects in portfolio
1990
Practising since
5
Territories worked in
Founder and track record
Frank Corredor
Frank Corredor has been involved in architectural projects since 1990, building a career that brings together academia, design, innovation and territorial transformation. His early years were tied to university teaching as a lecturer in project design — a period that consolidated a critical, conceptual view of architecture before he founded his own practice.
Across more than three decades he has led projects conceived not only as buildings, but as pieces capable of generating identity, activating territories and transforming the relationship between people, landscape and setting. His work has been recognised with nominations to the Colombian Architecture Biennials and has been marked by exploring new ways of inhabiting, moving through and experiencing space.
Within that track record, projects tied to tourism and destination architecture stand out — among them Bethel Bio Luxury Hotel and Bethel Playa Mayapo, where architecture becomes an engine of development, experience and regional positioning.
That philosophy continues today at Bethel Architects: to treat every project as an opportunity to challenge the conventional, to build ambitious ideas, and to show that architecture can transform places, create new dynamics and leave a meaningful mark on the territory.