Truth-seekers
Our culture goes beyond a natural curiosity; we use our intelligence and insight to reveal the truth, the authenticity of a space.
This means we are great listeners: to our clients, to each other, to the history of the place, to needs of the ultimate users. We not only give our knowledge to a project, but also learn something from every project. Staying inquisitive, staying hungry to learn more, relentlessly so, is a major part of our culture.
Balance
We’ve also discovered balance is an interesting concept to us,
we see it like riding a bike; you need to have balance to move forward.
Balance is more than a concept of work/life balance — it can explain everything really. For example, in a project we may want to do something very impressive, but the budget limit is too great. Some people call this sacrifice — but we call this an act of balance. Everything has its limit, and we believe that from friction creativity is born. We aim to balance the challenges and find inspiration and opportunity within that. iiiiii
Discipline
LAll of these words of our culture connect to each other. For example, if you want a balanced life, you need self-discipline. Discipline sounds like a threatening word, and this may also seem like an oxymoron, but to us discipline equals freedom. The more disciplined we are professionally and strategically; the more efficient and trusted we become to operate more independently. That freedom, it’s not about time. It’s from your mind and deeply asking your heart: Is this the best I can do? It’s more about communicating with yourself than working to a fixed physical time.
Discipline to us is an attitude to want to do better: to deliver your best work, and best work of the client’s too.