the power of SMALLNESS

Urban societies today are faced with incredible cultural, economic and environmental PRESSURES challenging the future quality of urban life.

This inspires us to rethink and improve the relationships between architecture, people and the urban and natural environment.

This reflects our belief in SMALLNESS as a new cooperative and contextual design mentality that replaces the oldfashioned, top-down design approach.

SMALLNESS is about using clever means to create maximum effects with minimum resources.

SMALLNESS combines a telescopic view of the context of a project with the microscopic view of the details of its use and performance.

In this way, architecture can regain socio-economic and ecologic significance and contribute to create a better world.