The museum shares space with the remains of a Gothic church and a 1950s chapel, and surrounds both the museum and the old church with a gray brick facade perforated like a cape…
Created in the 1970s by Oscar Niemeyer and his daughter Anna Maria, the Alta Armchair is an icon of Brazilian modernist furniture design. The perfect curve that starts at its base and reaches its backrest is this piece’s most striking feature…
We work exclusively, with historic buildings and define ourselves as a specialist "conservation" consultant. Although the word conservation can embody the repair and refurbishment of a building, we see it as a…
The beauty and the significance of our living environments, our place on the map of life, so to speak, is everywhere. But land is too often considered by urban planners and developers more in terms of…
Adaptive reuse projects can be illustrated in many different ways, from re-functioning of an old industrial building to converting containers into shopping malls. In fact, the main issue is to transform an old structure with a new function. Adaptive reuse…
MIPIM is an international platform where real estate executives meet. You can meet top-executives of many international firms and talk about business opportunities. This is what we expect from MIPIM. We want to expand our local work for surveying, urban development, or…
The concept of sustainable development was introduced in the 1987 Brundtland Report, by the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED). It defined sustainable development as: "development that meets the needs of the present…
To me adaptive reuse means thinking strategically about the available spaces and how these might be best suited to new uses. Pairing back the original building structure to its essentials and adapting the spaces in a legible way. Our work to transform…
For me, adaptive reuse means spatial sustainability. Adaptive projects aim to maintain their locations and habits which they used to have before the adaptation of the space, it is also quite a useful approach in terms of economy, the use of environmental…
Reuse projects enclose multi-dimensional works that provide the transformation of old buildings and sites whose partially or completely lost their original purpose to fulfill today's needs. Renovation of civil and monumental immovable…
Most part of the time of 2018 was dedicated in our office to develop studies. We are preparing phase on the constructions for several projects. For example, in Australia we've quite finished developing the studies. We are in the good way to…
Every structure needs to be renewed over time to meet the requirements of the day. Although it is possible to renew the buildings that retain their original function without making significant changes, radical interventions are needed for the re-functioned structures.…