We pride ourselves on delivering sustainable, stimulating environments which embody the idea that architecture is the creative art of making places. We are passionate about collaboration, artisan materiality and integrating art into architecture.
Studio profile
GDA Studio is an architecture workshop Passionate about architecture in all its forms and scales, we operate in a wide variety of fields ranging from new construction to rehabilitation. We love and specialise in unique modern homes, but also have experience in large-scale residential schemes, and the arts sectors. As architects, we are involved in the projects from start to finish. We provide full architectural design services and consultancy services during the construction phase. PROCESS Our design skills extend beyond mere architectural services. Our work also includes interior design services, town planning and urban design and landscape design services. We thrive working on historic sites and buildings in sensitive contexts introducing contemporary interventions alongside historic surroundings.
Sustainability
Climate change and corporate social responsibility are the two most urgent global issues. International governments, regulatory bodies and the public have recognised the necessity to act and the market demands ever higher levels of environmentally and socially sustainable development. Today, sustainability is embedded into our design approach. In close consultation with our clients and other consultants, we look at whole range of relevant considerations from air quality, transport, light pollution, community issues, safety and opportunities for increased natural bio-diversity. We endeavour to control the amount of materials used in construction and maintenance of our building designs and reduce waste management.
Design philosophy
Each project evolves from the specific client requirements and innovation
emerges through the design process. This approach is combined with strong
technical and management skills to provide cost effective and personal service.The studio maintains a highly personal level of service throughout the design
process and offer strong technical and structural solutions through close
collaboration with engineering offices and other consultants.
Each project brings with it a new client and special cost constraints. To achieve
the desired solution, GDA Studio believes that the design process must be a
collaborative effort between the client and the designer.
GDA Studio ensures that clients take an active role in defining their needs,
bringing client and solution together, and is backed by a support team with a
capability of responding rapidly to projects demands. The studio put great
emphasis on each individual project’s context, history and culture and aims to
enhance these aspects through their unique design process.
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Contextual
GDA Studio poetic architecture, always attentive to context, can be seen as a melting pot of ideas, a meeting point of traditions and innovations, where each project presents a challenge and at the same time a new learning opportunity. Our philosophy reflects the belief of changing the environment by observing and respecting the site, its history and culture.
We strongly believe that all buildings should respond to their context and
provide integrated solutions that are realistic, deliverable and backed up by
an inherent understanding of structure and materials.
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Collaborative
The creation of quality architecture demands a collaborative process. We work in partnership with our clients, the design team and the construction team; placing an emphasis on dialogue and communication. We have found that the success of a project is often as much the result of the collaboration as of the ideas which informed it. We pride ourselves on being a practice without ego and without a house style. Each project we are involved in is bespoke to that particular client and location, and our final designs are a result of a creative collaboration between a multitude of architects, designers and technicians. From the concept design stage onwards, projects are regularly reviewed by colleagues who do not form part of the project team. We believe architecture is a collaborative art and we love to work with other designers and artists. As valued partners we offer a unique blend of design expertise, strengthened by a detailed technical resource and extensive experience in delivering complex buildings on site.
Fluid
Our interiors aim to achieve a sense of generosity and flow in all layouts.
We focus on how a resident is likely to use the space, how furniture is
accommodated and the small details in equal measure. Simply, we try to
produce spaces that the end user will be proud to call their home or
workplace.
We realise individual and sustainable solutions for architectural projects,
urban master plans, interiors, furniture and exhibitions. Pleasure in the
sensual handling of space and material, curiosity for technical and
spatial innovation as well as the responsible use of all kinds of existing
resources constitute the focus of our architectural practice.
