a-project is a design practice that provides a flexible architectural service that is responsive to the complexities of contemporary life and the varied situations of the built environment and client needs. It focusses on an open approach to design problems – responding to the multiple factors that shape the process of designing – from the social, economic and physical environmental challenges to historic, material and personal narratives.
Assembly
services
Specialist consultancy services to develop large-scale strategic frameworks for masterplan proposals, site capacity studies, speculative environments, innovative methodologies for optimising development opportunities and flexible structures for outline consents
The work at this scale is an assembly of the complex range of contingent factors that shape contemporary urban environments:
Flexible structures - land use, plot layout, spaces, places, volumes, massing, environment;
Responsive strategies - projective development, transformation, speculation and propositions for places;
Spatial configurations / parameters - mixed-use typologies, landscapes, characters, environments, movements.
projects
a-project develops large-scale urban regeneration projects and flexible frameworks for future environments. The dynamic interrelationship of a wide range of complex contingent factors shape each specific site - and these are developed in collaboration with other disciplines, clients and wider communities to deliver successful places for the future growth of urban environments and landscapes.
a-project brings to this scale of project an understanding of the range of competing variables in strategic planning, a technical knowledge of mixed-use design parameters and principles, a thorough practical understanding of the planning processes and implications for large-scale development, a commercial awareness of the constraints and opportunities for development capacity and an open and responsive approach to designing places, spaces and built environments that projects the best possible outcomes.
a-project approaches each project with a rigour and openness to the unexpected opportunities for each situation - interrogating the unique social and demographic contexts, land use considerations, historic narratives, physical contradictions, poetic possibilities, commercial limitations, planning opportunities etc. In addition, a mixture of techniques is used throughout the ongoing design process to reveal alternative strategies and unforeseen opportunities with bespoke digital and analogue tools specific to the context, environment and client requirements.
a-project sees each project as an ongoing enquiry, and has extensive experience of the continued monitoring, optimisation and appraisal of urban strategies beyond the initial masterplan as detailed applications flex the strategy and market change evolves the context.
Key projects include:
Elephant Park, London.
Wembley, London.
