DESIGN APPROACH

I approach archi­tec­ture and design as way of address­ing chal­leng­ing issues.

It’s a way of think­ing about prob­lems and what we can do to pro­vide con­sid­ered, per­sonal solu­tions. It’s about being inno­v­a­tive in this prob­lem solv­ing, with­out for­get­ting how we came to this point. Above all, it’s a way of pro­vid­ing bet­ter expe­ri­ences for those who come in con­tact with the design.

I feel that the field of archi­tec­ture has no bound­aries and the pro­fes­sion is not only trained to deliver build­ings of sub­stan­tial qual­ity, but also to be able to think, plan and coor­di­nate con­sid­ered strate­gies for com­plex problems.

Of par­tic­u­lar inter­est to me is the pos­si­bil­ity of cross-disciplinary approaches to prob­lem solv­ing, in which teams of var­ied expe­ri­ence are gath­ered together to enable the col­lec­tion of spe­cific knowl­edge. The expand­ing scope of archi­tec­tural think­ing allows for novel solu­tions to new prob­lems and dif­fer­ing approaches to ongo­ing problems.

My archi­tec­tural prac­tice is research. It is an oppor­tu­nity to exper­i­ment and test ideas and their tec­tonic res­o­lu­tion. The ways in which archi­tec­ture can facil­i­tate social sus­tain­abil­ity is an ongo­ing theme in my design research. That is not only sus­tain­abil­ity in the sense of “green” tech­nol­ogy, but as a more holis­tic approach to how we inhabit the planet and how cre­at­ing well func­tion­ing com­mu­ni­ties can have a pos­i­tive effect on the envi­ron­ments in which they exist.

Design is also a way of com­mu­ni­cat­ing what is impor­tant to us. It can com­mu­ni­cate our approach to work, fam­ily and the envi­ron­ment. It is there­fore impor­tant that design comes out of con­ver­sa­tion on these top­ics, so that it can accu­rately reflect these val­ues. Clients are always encour­aged to take an active inter­est in form­ing the frame­work for good design to happen.