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Architecture
The outline of a building: its volume, its openings and the way it sits in place and takes in daylight.
Architecture · Interiors · Material design
Space, surface,
and the line between.
anse is a studio working across architecture, interiors and material design, from the outline of a building to the finish of its surfaces.
Practice
We treat a building, the rooms inside it and the materials they are made of as one continuous decision, so that the plan, the light and the surface are worked out together rather than one after another.
Disciplines
Three scales, one line of thought
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Interiors
The arrangement within: how rooms connect, how people move through them and how light reaches each corner.
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Material design
The surfaces themselves: grain, texture and finish, and the joints where one material meets the next.
Approach
From the whole
to the detail.
Context
Understanding the site, its light and the way the space will be used.
Proportion
Setting the measure of volumes, openings and rooms before anything is decorated.
Material
Choosing surfaces for how they look, age and feel to the hand.
Detail
Resolving the junctions, so that the edge of a table follows the same logic as the edge of a building.
Every surface is also an edge.