approach

Materials have an outsized impact on projects, on people, and on the environment. By questioning the throw-away mentality of today’s building industry—where resources are taken, consumed, and subsequently disposed of—moves us from a linear concept of resource destruction to creative iterations of material cycles.

For the most part, everything we need has already been built. But we change, we move, and we never stop altering our surroundings to suit us. Fortunately, existing spaces can be reconfigured and materials adapted to breathe new life, textures, and stories into our buildings. This is a shift from the banality of new to one of creative discovery in what we already have.