Space is never neutral: it enables or it hinders, it draws people in or it pushes them away.
Riccardo Minelli | Founder ARCHIlabs
The principle
Space enables people's behaviour, and behaviour, day after day, becomes culture. To design is a great responsibility: it means shaping how people will live, work and grow.
The philosophy
That is why, when we ask who our client is, the answer goes beyond whoever commissions the project. The client is whoever will inhabit those spaces, even if we never meet them. It is whoever walks past every day and finds a new piece of architecture they never asked for. It is the energy, the environment, the ecosystem we act upon, and the generations to come.
None of them asked us for anything, yet every project, by asserting itself, takes something from each. Our duty is to give back more: to generate, for every one of them, more value than it takes away.
How we work
Listen
Surveys, interviews, observation: how people live and work.
Analyse
Reading the data, drawing out the insights, defining goals with the client.
Design
Translating into space: layout, work setting, architecture.
Deliver
Bringing it to the ground through to handover, a single point of contact.
Measure
Checking the results in the lived space, and improving.
Architecture
How a building comes to life and is delivered: from analysis to handover, a single design partner. BIM on the Apple platform, sustainability and quality built to last.
See the projects →Smart working
How we design the way people work: from survey to work settings, the space that enables people's behaviour: Community Based Design.
(by ARCHIlabs)
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