banduksmithstudio

Our practice is a mode through which we may bring together many references we find in our environment. In each project there is an opportunity to search, discover, answer. Our endeavors are linked by the way we see the world, but the variety of scale, of place, of material, lets us explore the uncharted, discover the unexpected, and surprise ourselves with what we make.

We aim to marry a materially sensitive design approach with respect for the context into which each project is placed, celebrated through a considered relationship with the physical and social condition of its surroundings. Most essentially, we put materials together to form shelter. We study the way that sun, wind and water, as elements of nature, form architecture that is also shaped by the structure of its materials and the rituals that take place in it. Because we see the finished building at the starting point of its life, we aim to anticipate how it ages, that it may weather elegantly over time.

We work at any scale we can, taking on projects of furniture and object design, interiors, renovations, extensions, residential, institutional and commercial architecture. In each we look at how to transform the existing through introduction of the new, attempting to redefine the context and rediscover possibilities.