Core Frameworks
Philosophy
“Every generation has the task to design a better life”
Wang Hui, de URBANUS
How do you connect with the environment?
Architecture is many things: art, craft, philosophy, metaphysics, knowledge and understanding. It is a way of perceiving the world, of interacting with it that creates existential metaphors –embodied and lived– that actualize and structure our being-in-the-world. It is a forward-looking task, both formally and regarding its social, environmental and cultural impact. This process affords a communion with the world we inhabit, an intimate connection with our environment and surroundings, with the telluric, celestial and sacred energies.
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Architecture’s task is to produce a qualitative articulation with existential space and our environment. Instead of accelerating our experience of the world, architecture must fiercely preserve slowness to provide us with other ways of living, feeling, moving and touching.
The design process starts with the joint creation of an agreement about desires and intentions, opportunities and constraints, bringing feeling and thinking into play. At heart, a project is born from the mutual encounter and open communication between clients and the design team. Together, both parties integrate diverse knowledge and experiences to generate collaborative solutions.
Space
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
How would the ideal space look like to you?
Human space is lodging + integration: a projection of our bodily scale, as well as the sense of order we give to the utterly immeasurable natural environment. Architecture allows us to live in spaces of fantastic, pure invention, articulating our experience of the world, strengthening our sense of reality and self.
It is also our medium, nature and environment. In the context of the climate change crisis we face, we need a truly restorative and ecological perspective concerning design. One that allows a reconnection with our environment, breaking down both physical and mental barriers that keep us apart from the natural world.
Keep reading
Sustainability must be firmly rooted in the nitty-gritty details of design, including the input of eco-design, green architecture, sustainable agriculture and ecological engineering, among other fields.
It is time to stop designing in the image of the machine and start doing it in a way that honors the complexity and diversity of life itself. Minimize the consumption of energy and materials, reduce pollution, preserve habitat, and foster the community, health, and beauty. We need a more human way of conceiving design.
Body
“It’s not enough to imagine you, if I can’t touch and feel you.”
Juhani Pallasmaa
How do you want to dwell in your space?
Architecture as a concrete phenomenon expresses the historical relationship of the human body with the world. Man is an embodied being, and architecture has become a second skin. In this dynamic, living interrelationship, the subjects of dwelling are active, bodies are sensitive and spaces are lived: the design of space must encompass the full extent of dwelling.
The body is also that place where perception, thought and consciousness happen. The role of architecture is to show how the world reaches out and touches us. An inspiring architecture will target all the senses simultaneously, merging the image of the self with the expression of the world. It will channel an experience of ourselves as bodily and spiritual beings.
Keep reading
It is necessary to create spaces that open us to the haptic world –touch, caress– to integrate our sensory experience of the world. Design must offer pleasurable forms, molded to the touch of the eye as well as the other senses. Using concepts from neuroarchitecture, we reflect on the brain’s connection with the environment to design spaces that evoke pleasurable sensations, such as peacefulness, shelter, relaxation and rest.
Movement
“The dancer has ears in his toes.”
Friedrich Nietzche
How important is movement in your life?
Movement is the first nature of man as an embodied being. Movement is art and nourishment for the soul. Conscious movement is a path to the spiritual in man. It is also medicine: a stimulus for the will to think, feel and act. Movement gives human beings the possibility to integrate all their systems (neuro-sensory, rhythmic, metabolic and motor) and reach the fullness of their being.
Architecture and the built environment provide the structure for all of human interaction and activity. Design shapes space and space, in turn, shapes us: to move, to experience… to be. The environment and space we design must allow the body to find its most harmonious movements and its most adequate postures in all its everyday dealings.
A design for a human scale, one that projects the open, wide spaces that promote movement as part of integral human development.
Philosophy
“Every generation has the task to design a better life”
Wang Hui, de URBANUS
How do you connect with the environment ?
Architecture is many things: art, craft, philosophy, metaphysics, knowledge and understanding. It is a way of perceiving the world, of interacting with it that creates existential metaphors –embodied and lived– that actualize and structure our being-in-the-world. It is a forward-looking task, both formally and regarding its social, environmental and cultural impact. This process affords a communion with the world we inhabit, an intimate connection with our environment and surroundings, with the telluric, celestial and sacred energies.
Keep reading
Architecture’s task is to produce a qualitative articulation with existential space and our environment. Instead of accelerating our experience of the world, architecture must fiercely preserve slowness to provide us with other ways of living, feeling, moving and touching.
The design process starts with the joint creation of an agreement about desires and intentions, opportunities and constraints, bringing feeling and thinking into play. At heart, a project is born from the mutual encounter and open communication between clients and the design team. Together, both parties integrate diverse knowledge and experiences to generate collaborative solutions.
Space
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
How would the ideal space look like to you?
Human space is lodging + integration: a projection of our bodily scale, as well as the sense of order we give to the utterly immeasurable natural environment. Architecture allows us to live in spaces of fantastic, pure invention, articulating our experience of the world, strengthening our sense of reality and self.
It is also our medium, nature and environment. In the context of the climate change crisis we face, we need a truly restorative and ecological perspective concerning design. One that allows a reconnection with our environment, breaking down both physical and mental barriers that keep us apart from the natural world.
Keep reading
Sustainability must be firmly rooted in the nitty-gritty details of design, including the input of eco-design, green architecture, sustainable agriculture and ecological engineering, among other fields.
It is time to stop designing in the image of the machine and start doing it in a way that honors the complexity and diversity of life itself. Minimize the consumption of energy and materials, reduce pollution, preserve habitat, and foster the community, health, and beauty. We need a more human way of conceiving design.
Body
“It’s not enough to imagine you, if I can’t touch and feel you.”
Juhani Pallasmaa
How do you want to dwell in your space?
Architecture as a concrete phenomenon expresses the historical relationship of the human body with the world. Man is an embodied being, and architecture has become a second skin. In this dynamic, living interrelationship, the subjects of dwelling are active, bodies are sensitive and spaces are lived: the design of space must encompass the full extent of dwelling.
The body is also that place where perception, thought and consciousness happen. The role of architecture is to show how the world reaches out and touches us. An inspiring architecture will target all the senses simultaneously, merging the image of the self with the expression of the world. It will channel an experience of ourselves as bodily and spiritual beings.
Keep reading
It is necessary to create spaces that open us to the haptic world –touch, caress– to integrate our sensory experience of the world. Design must offer pleasurable forms, molded to the touch of the eye as well as the other senses. Using concepts from neuroarchitecture, we reflect on the brain’s connection with the environment to design spaces that evoke pleasurable sensations, such as peacefulness, shelter, relaxation and rest.
Movement
“The dancer has ears in his toes.”
Friedrich Nietzche
How important is movement in your life?
Movement is the first nature of man as an embodied being. Movement is art and nourishment for the soul. Conscious movement is a path to the spiritual in man. It is also medicine: a stimulus for the will to think, feel and act. Movement gives human beings the possibility to integrate all their systems (neuro-sensory, rhythmic, metabolic and motor) and reach the fullness of their being.
Architecture and the built environment provide the structure for all of human interaction and activity. Design shapes space and space, in turn, shapes us: to move, to experience… to be. The environment and space we design must allow the body to find its most harmonious movements and its most adequate postures in all its everyday dealings.
A design for a human scale, one that projects the open, wide spaces that promote movement as part of integral human development.
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