Each project must develop a strong narrative which grows out the characteristics of the local places conditions, whether as palimpsest; physical traces, collective memories and experiences of the citizens, these must be nurtured and translated into built form and continue to contribute to the community afterwards.

The narrative of the project develops out of the specific place program combined with the client’s program. We like to call this looking from the outside-in and the from the inside-out. These two programs don’t necessarily match at the outset, we see it as our foremost goal as spatial agents to enable this special meeting point into something unique and unimaginable beforehand. It demands a holistic approach, where we as architects are in a specially position to bring together often conflicting interests by a heuristic intuitive working methodology.

We read the city as palimpsest, with traces from its geography, history, physical constructs and equally important its inhabitants, their artifacts, and activities. The city is a socio-cultural ecological construct in a constant state of flux and in tune with the zeitgeist. To fully understand this interdependency requires a multidisciplinary approach requiring many fields of expertise.