A space has an audience, a function, a way of being used and a way of being understood. It also has an image, a value and a life beyond the moment someone physically enters it. Looking at all of these things together changes what becomes part of the design.
Treating space as a product means beginning with what it needs to do. Who is it for? What should happen there? What should someone understand or feel when they encounter it? What already exists, and what could become more useful, valuable or specific?
These questions can change very practical decisions. A rental apartment designed around short stays needs a different program from a private home. A cultural space has to consider how people arrive, move, gather and understand what they are seeing. A commercial interior has to work for the people using it every day as well as for someone encountering it for the first time.
The same thinking applies beyond physical space. A project may also be experienced through photographs, a website, a catalogue, a booking page or an interface. These are part of how the project is discovered and understood, and sometimes they determine whether someone ever reaches the physical space at all.
This is why our projects can move between architecture, interiors, objects and digital environments. The medium changes, but many of the questions remain the same: structure, use, audience, sequence, perception and value.
For us, spatial design is the process of bringing these things into one coherent system and then translating it into plans, materials, objects, images, interfaces and implementation.