In a rapidly evolving world, cities are facing complex future challenges. SCAPE Architecture designs architectural projects that are perfectly adapted to their context by combining an innovative collaborative working approach and the know-how of its multicultural team.
There is no doubt that territories are changing.
First of all, for demographic reasons. The world population is in constant growth. By 2030, 60% of the world population will be concentrated in urban areas.
Secondly, for environmental reasons. This multicultural, multi-social and multi-generational concentration of urban dwellers increases the need to create new ways of living together to make living together a pleasure, in a sustainable city, which never lacks resources.
Moreover, cities are also changing through their means of transportation: in addition to the heavy motorway and railway infrastructure, environmental-friendly and individual methods are also being implemented: from bikes, to electric powered vehicles, segways, scooters, busses and trams. The city lives to the rhythm of this multimodal mobility, influenced by urban expansion, the use of new technologies.
All those factors influence major city policies, influence the urban physiognomy of neighborhoods and buildings: housing, offices, schools, museums, businesses and industrial sites.
The way forward
SCAPE Architecture assesses, understands, shares and offers solutions to these challenges by conceiving architectural projects that are perfectly adapted to their context.
Providing solutions that suit the environment, the location and the users is the driving force of SCAPE Architecture. Those are the core principles of the office since its creation by Ludovica DI FALCO in 2004. SCAPE Architecture’s achievements and projects illustrates its ability to offer relevant solutions for any given challenge. These projects share a common feature: they continue changing with their environment, theirs users and their time.
BIM, the collaborative work tool
Whatever the features of either of the projects, SCAPE Architecture follows a key method: collaborative work. It aims at initiating an organized dialogue early on between architects, engineers and construction economists.
This dialogue obviously requires meetings, but also a computer-based tool: the Building Information Modelling. SCAPE Architecture has been systematically using the BIM process since 2010. This tool allows users to share information with all the stakeholders through a 3D model. It has a triple advantage: a better understanding of the project by all, more reliable communications, and the sharing of constraints for a closer monitoring of deadlines and a better cost control.
This technical use of the BIM is the continuation of the design method provided by Ludovica Di Falco to his team. The project work is the results of discussions within the entire SCAPE Architecture team, where everyone can express their opinion, their cultural and architectural sensitivity, compare their points of view and share their knowledge. Projects and achievements stem from this workshop task based on the same principle of collaborative work.
From the point of view of the users
The multicultural strength of SCAPE Architecture also lies in building for the future by drawing lessons from the past. This is a strong belief at SCAPE Architecture: it is impossible to design a site without taking an unflinching look at what was there previously. That's what the office considers as a selective view on history with the goal of retaining what was best in the past and to adapt it to present and future contexts.
And not just from an architectural standpoint! But also from the standpoint of the residents in a building and their neighbors. They are in fact the reasons why SCAPE Architecture designs places that others might also use and look at long after.
