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.
a-project reconstructs architectural practice as a model for projecting - creating dynamic, flexible and responsive strategies for development rather than rigid solutions. It is a responsive activity for architecture rather than a fixed position of architecture. With this approach, a-project provides architectural design services across all scales of architectural and environmental intervention as an integrated model for design speculation, projection and realisation.
Professional practice, speculative design and theoretical research are considered as an integrated whole within a repeating loop of interrelated scales of built environment. These services are identified as a network of categories as follows:
Assembly - strategic urban frameworks, compositions, environments, places;
Sub-assembly - plots, typologies, blocks;
Component - buildings, structures, types;
Part - building elements, spaces, rooms, installations, extensions, furnishings;
Interruption - r+d, essays, publications, exhibitions, product.
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a-project provides the following professional architectural design services:
Masterplans / strategic frameworks / outline applications
Site capacity testing / options appraisal
Housing typology studies
Individual building studies
Private houses / extensions / remodelling
Architectural product development
Speculative architectural r+d / publication / exhibition
a-project provides full design services or can collaborate within larger design teams to provide specific design consultancy. Please contact us to discuss any opportunities and how a-project may be able to help.