What we do
We deliver innovative, complex and world class projects. We design buildings, infrastructures, masterplans, interiors and objects with the common goal: to achieve sustainable projects. We design with the future in mind. Our team works on the questions of our time: can we change the way we currently live, work and circulate.
Concept sketches
Architectural Building Design
We deliver full architectural design services for the early stage design. In today’s world, designing a building is about much more than the development of a program into space. That’s why we question deeply any briefs to consider how to achieve any sustainability and environmental improvement. The ways people live, work and circulate is a driver for change. That makes it our responsibility to ensure our designs are flexible enough to move with any future challenges. Our team is set up as a single point of contact in order to facilitate the project development and coordination throughout. We work with flexibility with other design specialists, other practices, local partners and approval body. As the projects develop, we keep an involvement and a level of support and commitment up to construction. Together and in line with engineering and technical approach, we endeavour the full architectural and design review, so that the best concepts are adopted.
Quatertower – TimbertowerElevation
Augsburg, Germany
Taiyuan Park – Outdoor Water TheatreDiagram
Taiyuan, China
Infrastructure Design
The relative scale of a city, with all its functions, zones and forms of transport, requires multiple design strategies. That’s why the foundation of urban planning ethos is understanding the client’s (and the city’s) ambitions. The design of infrastructures, bridges and footbridges plays an important role in how we connect and perceive the urban landscape and connect with other places. Every project begins with rigorous research into the city’s economic, formal, political and social make-up. It works in symbiosis with a steady technical approach and constraints that we believe are the fundaments to any opportunities.
Cyclist and pedestrian footbridge over the Neckar
Heidelberg, Germany
Elevation
Taiyuan Park BridgeConcept diagram
Taiyuan, China
A brief introductory sentence
Concepts / Scheme design
– HOAI LP 1-3 , Germany
– Stage A to C, UK RIBA
– Stage Concept-APS French system, loi MOP
Design development
– Stage 4-5, Germany
– Stage D, UK RIBA
– Stage Concept-APD French system, loi MOP
Delivery and construction
According to the scale of the projects, we collaborate with other delivery architects and engineers in order to document and build each project in local context.
Strategic redefinition of constraints – Synthesis of Existing conditions
Analysis of the strategic file and other essential requirements of the project.
Analysis of the specifications
Development of the project objectives, including quality, objectives and project results; sustainable aspirations, budget, other parameters or constraints and review of the initial, project document.
Architectural concept and integrated structure
Preparation of the design, including general specifications and review of preliminary cost information and relevant project strategies in accordance with the design program. Agreement on modifications to the project document and publication of the final project document.
Ongoing work in coordination with the stakeholders on each team
Our objective is to have a supporting role throughout the construction process to control the outcome of the design.
In relation to the development of the project, the architectural studies include among others:
– Landscape integration and environmental impact.
– 2D 3D graphic representation of constraints, template networks.
– Development of 3D options.
– Parametric studies.
– Sketches and visualizations.
– Production of coordinated 2D drawings.
– Integrated constructive design and anticipation of production methods.
– We develop very early the options study and the parametric study.
– We provide a 3D model from the early stages of design, with an integrated Architecture / Structure interface.
– We work directly in 3D with all the latest software, and we manage complexity.
– We develop design solutions for complex infrastructure / building forms and interfaces.
– We take on sophisticated challenges and explore ideas beyond convention.
– We write a note on geometry to explain the principles of geometry and the interface with others.