Aristodemou architects are unrelenting in their efforts to bring inventiveness and diligence to every project. Our competence extends to the programming, planning, and design of a vast array of building types, including cultural facilities, higher education buildings, creative spaces, museums, residences, and multifamily housing. Whether our customers have a small or large project and whether they are local or multinational, Aristodemou Architects is committed to addressing both the realistic objectives and unique potential of each commission.
Our methodology addresses every design challenge with rigorous conceptual thought, matched with the practical considerations of program, budget, location, and craftsmanship. We work together with our clients to establish requirements, handle eventualities, conceive of options, proceed methodically through a challenge, and create means of delivering well-intentioned yet particular answers to actual needs. Our most successful initiatives have both openness and specificity, allowing for change while preserving the core concepts. We seek structures that make intuitive sense at every scale, from the largest concepts of site planning to the feel of a door lever in the hand.
Our objective is to immediately engage with this context in order to identify the architectural factors that produce these enhanced atmospheric sensations. This opens up a broad area of study that focuses less on the things themselves and more on their intricate interrelationships.
Architecture consists of readily manipulable elements such as walls, roofs, columns, floors, and staircases. But the most dematerialized kind of matter accessible to the architect is atmosphere, which is the instrument of our study since it can move between the conceptual and the perceptual unlike any other material.
This situation is experienced invisibly in the background, yet it is intuitively understood by all individuals. It imparts a feeling of depth and heightened temporality to the environment, and is sometimes referred to as affect, atmosphere, or mood. In a manner comparable to light, music, weather, space, and time, architecture acts in the background and imparts the lightest physical contact to the body. Nevertheless, there are short times when our concentration pulls the world into focus, and we find ourselves immersed in atmosphere, comprehending things not in terms of conceptions or perceptions, but in their most basic condition.
