As our name implies, we begin each process by understanding the already existing. We do this in order to ‘design as little as possible’, letting patterns of life frame and direct our work. Each project begins by understanding the essential qualities of the client, space, and users that we are engaging with. We work with these with the ambition to help places feel truly alive. This aliveness often grows out of patterns of history and culture and these are our roots for transformation and care of the existing.

Places where life can unfold organically.

We like to think that architects build. If that may be designing, drawing, planning and administration, it all eventually comes down to the act of building. We as architects should first and foremost think within this paradigm of building instead of merely planning.
We strive to set new standards for materials and construction to shape a contemporary definition of architecture that addresses the numerous challenges our planet faces today. In this new definition, we emphasize viewing every piece of material as a valuable resource, with transformation and renovation as guiding principles.
Production is a core pillar in our practice and is always introduced in the conceptual/schematic phase. For us, a successful production is the unity of raw material, technique, and tectonic quality. In the office we talk about the ‘opportunities in production’ which means that we do not simply apply building products to a concept but try to understand each element looking for the opportunities in the production.
The opportunities in production provide us with the tools to distill projects to their tectonic essentials and to work directly with these elements: The materials, the construction, and the visual form of the built, converge to constitute a unified whole.

As a result, the built then becomes exactly what we see and touch, exactly what we feel beneath our feet.

Currently there are no open positions at the studio. Please keep an eye on our instagram and website for future announcements.
Due to the high amount of interest we can only respond to solicited applications.

We appreciate the effort that has gone into every application we receive. Due to an overwhelming amount of interest, however, we cannot respond to unsolicited inquiries at this time. Thank you for your understanding.

Christine Bjerke, Dinesen Lab, Realdania, Pihlmann Architects, Victor Boye Julebæk, Gehl People, Dreyers Fond, Marianne Krogh, Artikel København, Studio Atlant, Chrissie Muhr, Alexis Mark, Almenr, Sarah Mullertz, Forthcoming Studio, Reværk Arkitektur, Cobe, Peter Frøge, Studio Kim Lenschow, Studio 0405, MSSR Works, Arda Audio, The Danish Association of Architects

Realdania, SMK, Playdead, Bikubenfonden, Art Hub Copenhagen, Rockfon, Almenr, Carlsberg Byen, Gasoline Grill, FRAMA, Glyptoteket, Norse Projects, d line, Ricardo Bofill, Tivoli Gardens, Kinraden, Refshaleøens Ejendomsselskab, Copenhagen Contemporary, Humble and Curious, NREP, Trifolium, Kinraden, Åben Brewery, Gammel Strand

Publication, book, Reset Materials, exhibition design, 2023
Exhibition, Parts of a Whole, with Artikel København, 3 Days of Design, 2023
Exhibition, Mindcraft Project, Online exhibition, 2021
Publication, magazine, Kōnā Restaurant, Monocle, 2021
Publication, magazine, Archival Studies, Euroman, 2020
Exhibition, Studio X , 3 Days of Design, 2020
Publication, book, 11 rum: Nyindretning at Marienborg, 2019
Exhibition, Give Tradition a New Meaning, Living Is Giving, Beijing Design Week 2018

Business grant, The Young Artistic Elite Grant, Statens Kunstfond Danish Arts Foundation, 2019
Travel grant Japan, Danish Arts Foundation, 2019
Travel grant Japan, Dreyers Fond, 2018
Residency, Danish Art Workshops, Copenhagen, 2018
Project grant, Danmarks Nationalbanks Jubilæumsfond, Denmark, 2017

Singularch Lecture Series, ‘Transforming the Already Excisting’, Bratislava, 2024
Latvian Design Award, ‘Transforming the Already Excisting’, Riga, 2023
The Royal Danish Academy of Art, School of Architecture, ‘Understanding the Already Excisting’, Copenhagen, 2022
The Royal Danish Academy of Art, School of Architecture, ‘Lecture 01’ Copenhagen, 2018

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