Low Design Office is an architecture and design studio that focuses on something simple: realizing more with less.
WE MAKE ARCHITECTURE FOR THE FUTURE, ROOTED IN CULTURE AND CONTEXT.
As architects, across all scales of work, we strive to create inspiring environments and to shape impactful experiences in service of societal and planetary well-being.
We focus on novel design and delivery methods in order to make design excellence accessible to a broader public - to lower barriers while maximizing project potential.
We work to transform resource scarcity into innovation, and limitations into motivation.
OUR CRAFT-BASED CONSTRUCTION KNOWLEDGE INFORMS DESIGN STRATEGIES.
We often fabricate products and build our designs, so we have a deep understanding of construction.
Whether in the office or on the jobsite, we aim to be radically transparent and treat everyone involved in the process as collaborators.
We believe this knowledge and open dialogue ultimately leads to increased efficiency in the process, more affordability and access, and better outcomes across the board.
We are community-focused and systems-based, leading design for planetary and social equity.
We develop systems that can evolve, be retooled, and be reinvented to address individual and collective challenges.
By leveraging the power of thinking small, we incrementally work to improve places for people and planet.
Let's do everything we can.
“Structures by [LowDO] defy what we have come to know of as the pinnacle of starchitecture, instead of singular and rarified; modular, open source, attainable, democratic, local, sustainable... Spaces shifting from subject/object, reimagined as continuum, expansive, inclusive, decentralised, co-created, grounded in place, ever shifting, ever experimenting.”
- - Nana Oforiatta Ayim, Curator of the Ghana Pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale
Our work spans projects that are micro to macro, residential to communal, all designed by LowDO and many built by us as well.
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With our commitment to building societal equity through design, LowDO has been internationally recognized as an emerging leader in our profession.
