[Ay]A
is an international design studio based in Paris committed to cutting edge research and material
experimentation, across scales. [Ay]A engages with multidisciplinary fields from
fashion design, architecture to landscape urbanism, engaging
complex organisational systems and strategies in both theoretical and
professional praxis.
[Ay]A Studio explores
informal/intangible parameters in order to innovate. These innovations are not
limited to the architectural form but also the capacity to use
collective efforts, the functionality and accessibility of networks of
distribution (input/output), economy, self-sustainability, and in general, a
large capacity to evolve or be adapted topographically, operatively, and
environmentally.
Within
our overall strategy, [Ay] Architects:
- Seeks to oppose
traditional architectural practices. Confronting this conformism by seeks to develop
large scale systems through ground organisational strategies.
- Uses tactics such as
manipulating the ground, data processed mappings and indexings to create both
“theoretical and professional” projects generating a larger spectrum within the
architectural realm.
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Aims to loop processual experimentations through Landscape Urbanism
methodologies in order to apply them towards different scales of projects, from
the outset to final outcomes.
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Pursues physical experimentation as the materialisation of digital
configurations engaging existing/virtual intelligence; from residual landscape
to socio-spatial parameters.
[Ay]A
Studio is committed to non linear education in architecture worldwide.
[Ay]A
launches a series of global workshops contextualising existing conflicts and material/
virtual conditions while debating about local thinking. Our workshops encourage
the development of contrasting agendas seeking to challenge the normative way
of approaching design.
Such
thinking requires the participants to find methods to inform urban development
based on a timescale, which results in proposing a series of performances
capable of organizing new models of typological, urban and architectural
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