Ben Speedy’s architecture, interiors and landscape studio in Auckland, New Zealand.
Clients don’t come to us for drawings. They come for judgement: a point of view developed for them, their site and what the project could become.
Eight principles. The first two are about people, the next five about what we make, the last about what holds it together.
We work best with people interested in discovering what their project could become.
The client takes part in the journey. We are not a drafting service.
Architecture intensifies what is meaningful about being there.
The feeling changes from project to project. The requirement that there is one does not.
Use what the project needs. Avoid unnecessary material and architectural noise.
Stone as stone, steel as steel, timber as timber.
If performance and design are in conflict, the design isn’t finished. approach →
A project of ours should not need to look like the previous one.
The distinction is not scale. It is curiosity.
You don’t need to know architecture, speak its language or have an enormous budget. You need to want to take part in a design process. One room may be every bit as right for us as an entire house.
Could this idea belong here?
Early on we bring references: books, buildings, artworks, landscapes, materials that seem to hold an idea for the project. Not because your house should look like them. You take one away, live with it, and we talk about what came back.