Theme Projects

Urban Tranquility - Noise and Air Pollution

Urban Trees and Biodiversity

 Context sensitivity 

Space and Place

Limitless Creativity

“Geography… has meant different things to different people at different times and in different places.’’ (Livingstone)

Exploring space and place, opens up new possibilities and views while entrapping us at the same time in many different ways by the unexpected reactions people have in different places at different times.

 Made up spaces which become many time places related to our memories, desires having their own identity..

Trying to capture and express the feelings about different places where human interaction is taking place.

Exploring ideas, concepts, questions, and practices that examine the past, describe the present, and imagine the future.

Context matters. Creating places and spaces should enrich the lives of the people who use them. Every tree which is planned, every installation, every building can and should engage or contradict with history, beliefs and needs of a particular place and time. Place is to landscape as meaning is to language. Recognition, memory, choice, sharing with others, giving significance; all these contribute to the process of creation.

Materials matter. Have meaning, can evoke feelings, connotations and address deeper levels of our understanding. Putting materials to best use involves an appreciation of their innate sensory qualities as well as their technical potential.

People matter. Looking at the way society orders and organizes space, it’s easy to understand its values and principles. Usually people relate their desires and fears with specific places. It’s easy to like and love places that have been already loved, such as parks, plazas, monuments etc. Places that give us inspiration, energy, calmness which are related to our memories, or experiences that will become memories. But also neglected places where life is isolated or barely exists.

Sadly, we isolate, forget and hide away what we consider outcast, inferior, weaker, dangerous and useless in abandoned spaces. Those are the ones that should still give us inspiration through their energy and wisdom.

Ezra Pound said that beauty likes to keep away from the public glare. It likes to find a neglected or abandoned place, for it knows that it is only here it will meet the kind of light that respects its shape, dignity and nature.

But when does creativity and creation, once started, stop? Does it end when humans stop using or paying attention, when there is no more function for these spaces?

Through historical and cultural research and the collective memory of those neglected places we should recollect forgotten memories to create new narratives through re-interpretation and adaptation. Revive those neglected places that people choose to avoid, and the loss of the many benefits that come from cared-for green spaces.

Limitless creativity Part I

Part II

The Return

I assume, it's been a long time...

Let's start by delving into the past. 

The Line - The Movie 

The journey of the Line through space, materials, time...


Later on..

Inspiration

Final Design

Design With Nature