Ideas on Design
How to Innovate and Create New Designs?
Innovation and creativity, for us, are about being able to play and experiment.
Is there such a thing as "playing" at work? Yes, we play and experiment at work as long as the final product makes a happy client. Innovation doesn't come from a traditional approach. Innovation comes from a different approach away from conventional thought. Play and experiment until we reach "Architectural Nirvana"!
Certainly, there are no magic recipes to create something new, but there are indeed good practices and habits, and we have mastered them.
I associate creativity with a certain degree of a "healthy uncertainty," as Frank Gehry would say. Certainty is what we all know, and it has been done in the past, but we are exploring the fascinating world of the unknown, the unexplored, the future that has yet to come. We are in the business of shaping alternative better futures.
Inspiration & Influences.
Where does our inspiration come from?
I would argue that nature is the most important inspirational source one can think of. In every single human trade or endeavor, nature is the master of all trades. It took 4.5 billion years to evolve and develop into its current form to adapt to a particular environment. One cannot compete against nature, but learn to adjust and play with its wisdom.
My work is and always has been a sort of a "detective" trying to find out the creative process of an object, its causes and effects. I imagine nature and all its components, circumstances and conditions to create something new. Let's take "The Big-Ban" for example, as a thought experiment. Can one imagine a single planet with all its beauty to be compacted to an infinitesimal product, and then the most astonishing idea of all to think that its mass will be shared with the rest of the compacted planets, stars, and the rest of the galaxies of the Universe in a single point? I can only imagine the massive amount of gravitational force concentrated in that infinitesimal space. Then, continuing with our thought experiment, witness, in another dimension, the gravitational singularity and rediscover the aftermath of "The Big-Ban" in a single color manifested in each flower every spring, or paying attention to the bird's complaint about the climate change, or the whisper of an elderly tree and ancient rivers being denied their right to exist. Then I go back to my drawing board with my relentless commitment to design something new, and something green!
Even though, we all know, influences are from the past or present, our architectural practice has always been to design for the future. All the cumulative science, knowledge and experiences from the past help us generate a new vision for this challenging world we live in. It helps us envision and discover a new architectural path for a better future.
Let's build something new!
How to Innovate and Create New Designs?
Innovation and creativity, for us, are about being able to play and experiment.
Is there such a thing as "playing" at work? Yes, we play and experiment at work as long as the final product makes a happy client. Innovation doesn't come from a traditional approach. Innovation comes from a different approach away from conventional thought. Play and experiment until we reach "Architectural Nirvana"!
Certainly, there are no magic recipes to create something new, but there are indeed good practices and habits, and we have mastered them.
I associate creativity with a certain degree of a "healthy uncertainty," as Frank Gehry would say. Certainty is what we all know, and it has been done in the past, but we are exploring the fascinating world of the unknown, the unexplored, the future that has yet to come. We are in the business of shaping alternative better futures.
Inspiration & Influences.
Where does our inspiration come from?
I would argue that nature is the most important inspirational source one can think of. In every single human trade or endeavor, nature is the master of all trades. It took 4.5 billion years to evolve and develop into its current form to adapt to a particular environment. One cannot compete against nature, but learn to adjust and play with its wisdom.
My work is and always has been a sort of a "detective" trying to find out the creative process of an object, its causes and effects. I imagine nature and all its components, circumstances and conditions to create something new. Let's take "The Big-Ban" for example, as a thought experiment. Can one imagine a single planet with all its beauty to be compacted to an infinitesimal product, and then the most astonishing idea of all to think that its mass will be shared with the rest of the compacted planets, stars, and the rest of the galaxies of the Universe in a single point? I can only imagine the massive amount of gravitational force concentrated in that infinitesimal space. Then, continuing with our thought experiment, witness, in another dimension, the gravitational singularity and rediscover the aftermath of "The Big-Ban" in a single color manifested in each flower every spring, or paying attention to the bird's complaint about the climate change, or the whisper of an elderly tree and ancient rivers being denied their right to exist. Then I go back to my drawing board with my relentless commitment to design something new, and something green!
Even though, we all know, influences are from the past or present, our architectural practice has always been to design for the future. All the cumulative science, knowledge and experiences from the past help us generate a new vision for this challenging world we live in. It helps us envision and discover a new architectural path for a better future.
Let's build something new!