A rigorous design process requires a lateral exploration and testing of ideas against all outcomes. To achieve design with integrity and a timeless quality, there must be consistency through development, from macro concepts through to micro detailing. Good design requires the synthesis of the complex into the beauty of simplicity; the result must have credibility and be relevant to our client’s requirements. It is therefore critical to ensure continuity of the design process so that original aspirations can be represented in a metaphorical and didactic sense.
Buildings must be ecologically sustainable without additional cost or sacrifice to comfort. Architectural spaces, whether internal enclosures or external landscaped zones between buildings, must have inherent flexibility, providing inbuilt margin without wasted area. The occupants of our buildings are not ‘shoehorned’, rather internal design and functional requirements dramatically influence the external envelope.
A thorough understanding of site ethos, ecology, microclimate and social environment is critical to the successful integration of built forms into the natural, urban or campus landscape. Our aim is to provide culturally relevant and enduring designs whether they be contemporary, free-standing structures or insertions into an environmentally significant context. |
