James Carpenter Design Associates is a design firm motivated by a deeply held agenda that seeks to merge ecological and aesthetic goals by exploring the natural world to manifest its material, structural and environmental beauty in the built environment. The work is a synthesis of creative ideas and technical expertise that straddles the fields of art, architecture and engineering, while forging creative implementations of innovative technologies. Light in transmission, reflection and refraction as it is perceived, is the work’s initial inspiration, which becomes a guiding principle in designing a complete architectural project. The result is architecture that reestablishes and enriches the individual’s relationship with light and other phenomena within the urban experience.