astudio
Area of Expertise: Commercial, residential, education, hospitality, retrofit, masterplan, MMC/off-site, research and development.
astudio are a multi-award-winning architecture practice and former UK Practice of the Year who work internationally. They use their design skills from initial concept sketches and physical models through to BIM and parametric models to create outstanding buildings which push boundaries and delight clients and end users.
astudio listen, share their knowledge and innovate with courage to allow the projects they work on to bring significant impact socially, environmentally, and affordably. They work across the commercial, residential, hospitality, and education sectors using both traditional construction and offsite manufacturing methods and are passionate about delivering world-class sustainable design solutions, that enhance communities and their environments.
Research sits at the core of the studio to enable their work to be both relevant and innovative solving the challenges society and the industry faces by crossing boundaries and bridging the gap between architecture, sustainability, and technology.
Phone 020 7401 4100
Address Floor 3, 31-33 Bondway, London, SW8 1SJ
Website www.astudio.co.uk
Social media
- Instagram @astudio_architecture
- Twitter / X @AstudioArch
Architects have a duty to solve societal issues created by the political, environmental and social context in which we live. We live in a time where issues are known and shared by everyone on this planet. With the rise of technology comes knowledge transfer, and this together with social media allows for the spotlights to be shone on issues suffered by us all; global warming due to climate change, personal wellbeing brought sharply into focus due to the global pandemic and the need for financial stability made visible around the globe because of rising inflation with food and energy price increases all impacting our cost of living. We believe it is our duty to provide solutions to these issues, and that starts with research.
We collaborate with universities and experts in fields far outside of architecture to listen and understand how we might bring knowledge from elsewhere into architecture and construction. We need to develop skills and understand materials and their impacts to a far greater degree than we know today. We often say that this industry still builds like the Victorians – only worse. Forgetting some of the important lessons of that time, but still constructing buildings using the same techniques.
In a parallel industry Cancer Research pushes boundaries, tests new ways to conquer Cancer and we have faith that one day this research will do exactly that. So why in architecture and construction do we not have an equivalent? The industry is slow to adopt new and ground breaking ideas that will transform the built environment, often waiting for governments to legislate before small changes happen.
This is not what happens in astudio. We research fields of study to educate us to be better architects, more aware of the social context in which we build, our environmental impact and the projects financial viability.
The result of such research is our amodular™ business, tackling the housing crisis. We researched the traditional development and construction models, then tore them up to start over. How would we do it if we had total freedom? This is a question we ask ourselves regularly. The result is a business established to allow land owners, councils and governments to build homes on their own land. Effectively like buying homes as if they were iPhones. By Designing for Manufacture, tackling the inefficiencies in the current offsite manufacturers and assembly lines we have created a standardised structure, our aframe™ to unite the industry and have the impact on construction Henry Ford had with the car. Big thinking, challenging the norms and tackling the difficult and complex world of mass production in construction.
What we learn on our journey we share with others. We innovate by taking small steps as well as big strides. We have courage to cross boundaries, ultimately to leave this planet better than we found it, environmentally, socially and financially.
“Never doubt a small group of citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has” -Margaret Mead
