what we believe
Today’s reality seems to be shifting from a need to build more towards a need to build better and improve what already exists. This transition from quantitative to qualitative criteria encompasses the whole of our experience and interaction with our environment and does not limit itself to instant images. The complexity of the process of materializing a project, the amount of the resources needed for its creation, support and maintenance make the decision for the creation of a new project difficult and the assessment of the final result ever more demanding.
The answer to this augmentation of requirements demands and expectations can only come through the continuous effort to improve the quality both of our designs as well as that of the realized constructions. It is becoming clearer every day that Architecture cannot be an autonomous, independent endeavor. It is always part of an integrated effort by a multifaceted group of professionals to materialize spaces that shelter human life
The origin of our effort is space itself, whether it involves the transformation of a free space/plot, or the conversion of an existing building. The existing space with its charismas and disadvantages and its relation to the adjacent or wider environment, its exposure, the relief, possible views, light and access possibilities are the starting point for us.
The cause and defining factor for every project are the people with their needs, desires, individualities and sometimes peculiarities. Space may be lifeless but it creates feelings. The plurality and alternation of the feelings that a space evokes is for us a good measure of a project’s success.
Very important in our work are also the people who “build” a project. The craftsmanship, experience, materials and local expertise of our collaborators are invaluable to us.
We trust that the combination of all the above-leads to solutions, that retain an identity not influenced by fashion, habit or imitation. Therefore, our endeavor is to serve qualities, which withstand time, such as the relations of private-public space, interior-exterior space, light-shade, scale, texture of materials, protection of the privacy of our personal space, in the belief that space itself is more important than the material essence of its defining elements. Following this path we may meet the merits of “good” architecture not only in the big, important or high cost projects, but also in smaller everyday ones that affect us all. An architecture where the focus is shifting from how we “see” a project to how we “live” it.
