About the practice
As a Built Environment Design Practice, our work involves much more than a typical Architecture Design practice beyond designing the 'organisation of space' for people to inhabit and accomplish the functions that the spaces are intended for. It further involves designing for the 'environmental qualities of the built and unbuilt spaces'. And as environmental qualities are variable, our work also involves working on how spaces respond to the cyclic nature of time, which effects the variation in environmental qualities.
Human engagement with space is not limited to meagre physical presence. It also involves experiential participation. Spatial cognition is informed by perception of the environmental qualities of space. In order for people to derive meaningful experiences, environmental qualities of space have to be favourable.
At UDC, our work is not confined to attaining utilitarian efficiency in spatial organisation. It actively involves designing environmental qualities that are favourable for the inhabitants to derive meaningful experiences in the built environment.
2018 onwards, UDC operates through two specialty studios:
Though each studio engages in its works with a different methodology, they remain connected to the core ideologies that the practice believes in.
Explore the difference in the 'nature' of work done through the two studios.