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creative empathy
A project is born from a dream, it is an ambition, it is an aspiration.
In order to succeed in transforming the dream into a building, is necessary an empathetic, continuous approach, guided by dialogue between architect and client.
Being able to feel other people's emotions and desires and translate them into architecture.
We like to propose a project idea in which we involve people, the soul of a place and its socio-cultural context, to reveal its individual identities in a holistic vision.
poetics of sustainability
The idea of sustainability we pursue is based on the creation of ecological systems, urban oases in delicate balance with nature. We rethink urban spaces as habitats where coexistence and sustainability are interconnected.
In addition to achieving energy standards such as Minergie, Minergie_Eco and SNBS standards, we are committed to provide social, integrated responses to environmental sustainability with each architectural project.
The poetics of sustainability that we adopt is committed to creating a culture that fosters the livability and well-being of people, promoting a positive interaction between human beings and the inhabited landscape.
And, as Italo Calvino said, «A city is not drawn but keeps drawing itself», promoting a model of sustainable design, in which the city is an organism in continuous evolution.
searching for the soul of the place
«I have always liked the desert. Sitting on a sand dune. You see nothing. You hear nothing. And yet something shines in the silence.»
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
With each project we listen to the place, searching for its essence with the aim of re-establishing a connection between the person and the landscape, through sensory interaction with nature to achieve harmony and inner well-being.
Meditate on a project to create meaningful places.
The architecture we aspire to establishes an emotional relationship, rediscovering the calm and balance of place.
designing the void
We are often confronted with the mystery of emptiness.
When we listen to music and understand the importance of pauses and moments of silence. When we read a book and immerse ourselves in the harmony of the empty space surrounding the text.
The objects feels better when there is exactly the right amount of space between them.
That is why designing means making skillful use of emptiness. Which is not the opposite of fullness, but a richer space, for us a source of inspiration as it is loaded with infinite possibilities.
It is everywhere, outside and inside us, which is why we use emptiness as an indispensable ingredient of the project.
composing symphonies of spaces
What we try to create in architecture is a melody in which, as in music, each sound cannot be subdivided.
There is an intimate dialogue to the composition. A precise spatial, structural, architectural rhythm with which we can make people experience the feeling of infinity.
The symphony is rhythm that arouses emotion.
explore fragility
Fragility means exploring, cultivating doubt.
This attitude defines our approach to the project, the design of the architectural body, the framework of the building.
We seek an intimate relationship between structure and light in which the two elements are influenced by and skim over each other, drawing relationships between people, the culture of the place and the landscape.
The structure is a creator of light, it enters where there is no matter, it enters between the spaces that the structure leaves open and it fascinates us because it is always moving, always changing.
And we like to talk about lightness, transparency, delicacy and simplicity.
emotional perception
In each project we seek an atmosphere, spaces designed by textures of light that make materials vibrate in a fascinating way, involving people's souls.We are interested in listening to materials and transforming them into architecture to amplify the senses and atmospheres and bring emotions and sensations to life. Knowing and interpreting them, so as to supports their characteristics or grasp their limitations and value them.
We have the pleasure for drawing, the love for material, the attraction for invention and the search for experimentation.
The material becomes a matter through silence, surfaces, skin, air, seasons and light.
a glance of silence
Sacred, earth, light and silence.
Throughout history, the architect has always been called upon to decline these concepts, understand them and transform them into spaces.
Through the projects we would like to propose a vision of silence, to promote a different view of reality, a calm, abstract sight, thanks to which the world is offered in the sign of contemplation.
Through this silence and through his drawings, we would like to express an intangible idea of spirituality.