Future - proofing architecture
When working on a smaller scale, we started noticing the fast pace of construction and demolition of residential architecture. If a house can’t fit multiple generations of owners or the change of construction standards through decades, then we are facing a design issue. This was the start of our hypothesis that flexibility, circularity, and modularity are what makes a design resilient to change, and therefore achieve the ultimate sustainability.
Resilience is something our office has been investigating for a long time in different projects and collaborations. We design with time in mind and have come to a strategy of modularity allowing standardized, but also more sustainable structures.
Cities have many layers and functions coming together at the same time. So it is important to plan this one layer – architecture – to be futureproof, to be able to prevail on the growing future.
A place where so many different dynamics intertwine, is exposed to frequent change and evolutions. To be able to respond to this with an appropriate architecture is required, a resilient architecture that enables flexibility. A connected place, balancing built environment with people and nature. The design has to be able to incorporate a mix of functions and serve different types of residents.
“we design with time in mind”
These are challenges peculiar to our time that occupy architectural offices all over the world. Our practice has a tradition of intense collaboration with international offices, which entails a design methodology based on the dynamic process of exchanging knowledge, perspectives and expertise.
For us designing is a collective process, that allows us to re-learn other ways of thinking and making, opposed to a design by the touch of genius.
