Büro Ole Scheeren

Büro Ole Scheeren we like to build and we believe in reality. but we also believe in possibilities. we imagine alternatives and we rethink the givens. we search for meaning. we think of architecture as a place of habitation as a social construct as a space for the life of human beings. we see beauty in rawness and refinement, in dematerialization or even monumentality. we are interested in how architecture creates memories and how it creates stories. we are interested in narratives, in the stories that could be imagined and that could unfold within the spaces we create. design is simply a tool it is the tool we use in our work, but it is not our work’s meaning or content. architecture should connect the people that inhabit it, the people that imagine it, cultures and natures, technologies and materials, psychologies and experiences. we are inspired by complexity. by its beauty and freedom, by its subversive nature, by its inability to be completely defined. but we are also committed to clarity, to a strong rationale and logic, and to a thorough understanding of whatever is at stake. we are professionals, but we question our own assumptions. we don’t simply tell you what you want to hear, ut we try to identify what you should know. we do not only observe or analyze, but we engage and become involved. and we change our own position while we change our environment. architecture is about responsibility and it requires the fullest commitment to its realities and its fantasies, to its demanding and intricate process. we are partly european and partly asian. our minds and experiences are a hybrid of different cultures and contexts. we are interested in what we can learn and how our own position creates links between the multiple realities the world is embedded in. we engage in an exploration of strategies rather than the implementation of predefined methods and matrixes. knowledge is as important as the ability to think things anew and differently. we believe in our intuition and we believe in its utmost importance for everything we do.