CONTACT
Our architectural manifesto is what drives and underpins both our research and design work. Through an informed, reflective design practise, we aim to instigate the architectural conditions essential to make spaces that are socially cohesive and demographically non-exclusive. We work together to discuss and develop tools of action, which includes participatory ways of mapping, practices of making, and shared knowledge in the community.
ABOUT US
'CONTACT =
COLLABORATION
+
CONSULTATION'
'PARTICIPATION MUST BE INTEGRATED'
'ISOLATION IS NOT A SOLUTION'
OUR
MANIFESTO
Through an informed, reflective design practise, we aim to instigate architectural
conditions essential to make spaces that are socially cohesive and demographically
non-exclusive.
The notion that a house does not necessarily constitute a home is a testament to the shortcomings of design practise that is not spatially sensitive to the demands of its users: capital has increasingly demanded the cellular compartmentalisation of human beings in conditions that are arguably isolating and dehumanizing. An open-ended evaluation of the spatial and psychosocial conditions of isolation has necessitated a positive and transformative ethos as we strive to counteract marginalisation.
We regard design as a collaborative act that necessitates public discourse as a key primary research method. Spatial production belongs to a wide group of actors; through our reflective and evaluative design process we allow this to become a shared enterprise.
We believe that in order to address issues of sustainability effectively, architecture
must re-connect itself to organic structures systematically, designing with ecological
continuity in mind.
The connection between healthy cities and healthy ecosystems is one that is has become progressively obscured as urban dwellers maintain an increasing detachment from nature. We aim to integrate architecture within the urban ecological network – both at a micro and macro scale – by disregarding any preconceived notions that buildings should be observed as distinct from the ecosystems in which they exist. We believe that to address issues of sustainability effectively, architecture must re-connect itself to organic structures systematically, designing with ecological continuity in mind.