HANNAH

HANNAH is an experimental design and research studio working across scales from furniture to urbanism. From the ground up, digital design and fabrication technologies are intrinsic to the making of our work, facilitating fundamentally new material methods, tectonic articulations, environmental practices, technological affordances, and forms of construction. In our projects, we aim to mine the tension between machine means and architectural ends. We reclaim authorship over processes of construction that influence the way we can build – or perhaps ought to build in the future.
HANNAH does not obsess over technology for technology’s sake: as designers, we consider ourselves to be biased generalists rather than specialists. We inform form. At various scales, our work’s performance and architectural expression is inherently derived from materiality, digital construction protocols, robotic routines, new technologies, odd construction techniques, and bottom-up design logics. At the same time, in a mix of means, it is inspired by precedent, history, program, ecological considerations, collective labor, personal obsessions, and the creative misuse of technology.
Led by Leslie Lok & Sasa Zivkovic, HANNAH was named Next Progressives by Architect Magazine in 2018 and won the Architectural League Prize in 2020.