ANALYSIS OF SITE
Working within the context is a crucial part of the design process. An early site visit and analysis of the future plans would be taken to carry out a series of investigations to enable us to engage with the immediate site and its surroundings.

3D IMAGING
Within our office we work up designs through both physical models and computer models. These allow the design process to be more accessible to others so any ongoing conversation can be inclusive.

Our ethos is to work and design with the emotional as well as the physical space of occupation. This comes from setting up briefs which start from the stories of how people use and make place. We want this very intimate notion of space to pervade into even the largest project so that an individual can always relate to a building and also, in a public setting, allow for the space to be a backdrop to new stories where unexpected human & spatial relationships are forged.

Every building has a story, new or old. These stories are generally masked by the same accepted descriptions of a project, as no importance is attached to them. But these stories start before the building is conceived and continue after it is completed. The fabrication of the building is merely a chapter in the book. It will be a place of transgression to be experienced by the degrees of engagement people make and the stories they leave behind. A building will be designed so that it is able to adapt to events and so make the stories of all the people that use it explicit. It will be perceived by both the reasons why and the way it can change, rather than by its form.

Formal spaces often have loaded cultural references that exclude sectors of the public whereas informality allows for a personal interpretation of a space, both as an individual and shared experience. For a place to be inclusive people need to be able to identify with it and for this to happen an individuals’ cultural understanding of place needs to be understood. We intend that the form of a building evolves from a series of social and cultural studies and by designing through this process the spaces will be playful, informal and inclusive where interaction and communication between the participants allows for the redefining of social and cultural constructs.