The decisions that determine a building's performance are made before the architect starts.
We advise at this stage.
We start with the organization. Its identity, ambition and the reality it operates in. We translate this into scientific and strategic criteria and define what the project must achieve.
We connect published research to those decisions. Specific to the project, the building type and the people who use it. We work across three systems that most projects treat separately.
How people perceive, think and behave in spaces. What makes them productive, what makes them sick, what makes them stay. Most projects consult this science after the spatial decisions are already made.
How buildings are organized, constructed and experienced. Room geometry, building typology, materials, configuration. The physical structure determines whether performance strategies can actually be built.
How buildings are financed, valued and governed. Market demand, development feasibility, asset performance, lifecycle costs. Science without economic viability is not a strategy.
The architect and the project team receive this as their working framework. Not as a suggestion.
Every design decision in a building has a cost impact. Most are made without knowing what that impact is.
Major certification frameworks measure whether design features like daylight and ventilation are present. None of them measure what those features cost or return. What does the wrong ventilation system cost you in sick days per year? What does optimized daylight add to rent premiums?
Our method connects them. Context (who uses the space), stimulus (which design element), outcome (impact on cost and asset value).
Investors see the outcome as asset value. Municipalities see it as avoidable spending on healthcare and public buildings.
The most consequential decisions about a building happen before planning starts. When goals are defined and budgets allocated. The architect comes later, and by that point the direction is set. The cost of changing direction after architecture starts is a multiple of getting it right before.
We advise at this stage. Not on design, but on which research informs the long-term strategy.
Evidence Design Brief
We research your specific project. We search the scientific databases for the studies that matter for your building type and your users. You receive the relevant findings with quality grades and what they mean for your design.
Project Intelligence
Three workshops define what the project should achieve and for whom. We look at the conditions that shape it and identify where the blind spots are. The result is a shared baseline before capital is committed.
Scientific Translation
We identify which research areas matter for the project: how people respond to spaces, how buildings are organized and how the investment performs. We extract the relevant findings and score them for quality.
Strategic Synthesis
The final phase produces the documents that govern the project going forward.
We do not design buildings. We do not manage certifications. We do not produce architectural drawings.
Design execution and certification management are specialist work. Our deliverables are structured as input for these specialists. The strategic foundation their work builds on.