A central aspect of our teaching is the ability to interpret the existing built environment as a cultural resource. Buildings are not merely historical precedents, but reservoirs of materials, forms, and ideas—resources to be developed, transformed, and reinterpreted.
We conceive buildings as open-ended processes that evolve, change, and adapt
over time. Architectural projects are never truly “finished”—they remain open to
appropriation and transformation.
The design process is therefore fundamentally understood in temporal terms. It
deliberately seeks to develop transformative strategies, challenging the notion
of architecture as a finished product and ultimately repositioning building maintenance
as an integral part of the architectural scope.
