Our Story
The firm aggressively pursues work of all scales, maintaining a creative dialogue between realized projects and speculative studies and proposals. Founders and partners Eds Rivera, Jay Pacia, Chok Manalo and Tats Perez combine modern design strategies with the uncompromising ex*****on of diverse and wide-ranging projects. In addition, the practice is engaged in interior design, photography, exhibition and construction.
Arkisens’ work challenges established historical models, standardization and unvarying repetition. By consistently attempting to push the boundaries of architectural conventions and traditions, the difficulties and intricacies of a given situation become mechanisms for the emergence of new kinds of typologies, relationships and continuities. Arkisens constantly tries to manipulate space, creating surfaces that suggest movement and dynamism. In this way, space itself expands and contracts, insinuating new encounters and experiences for its users.
As a result, each project responds as a unique, holistic solution that appeals to all the senses by incorporating the dynamics of everyday life.