Evolutionary Architecture - We have attempted to shift emphasis from the conceptual to the material, towards tangible effects and spatial values. We aim to emphasise the experience, to use 'concept' as a tool for generating variation, difference and a range of spatial and material values instead of as an end in itself. We describe our methodology as evolutionary, in that we envisage many variations. Instead of serving specific requirements, our project attempts to generate ranges of qualities, in which particular qualities will be embedded more or less automatically within a whole matrix. Similar to a biological system's strategy for producing a spectrum of offspring instead of focusing all hope and energy on the production of a single specific, type. We produce a range of possibilities, some of which will prove to be redundant, others which we hope will have the strength to survive.

complexity - Through history, a variety of strategies have been used to develop complexity in architecture.
Over the last century collage has been the dominant strategy. Collage is the construction of ambiguous or even contradictory relationships through the adjacent placement of disconnected objects. Collage has been powerful and effective in way that it is capable of embracing and incorporating differences between the new and the old, the existing and the deviating. But overall it has had a destructive effect on the city and urban environment, in the sense that it undermines coherence.
Where at a small scale, differentiation is often preferred - in the way that variety of furniture can enrich the atmosphere of a space - at a larger scale however, a fragmentized environment can work disorientating or even result in a chaotic non-understandable situation. Instead of complexity, we would call this complicatedness; complexity without coherence. In our work we are instead, searching for true complexity; a complexity which does not exclude spatial coherence.

process - As the production-method for complexity, we are more interested in processes than we are in collage. Our focus lies in the investigation of producing coherence while allowing for differences, producing complexity from a basic set of limitations, by accidentally crossing information. The objective is to create the phenomenon of emergence from a limited set of ingredients. An example of a complex process that does this is for instance an evolutionary cycle. In evolution new possibilities are produced, while coherence is maintained and internal differences are allowed for, all within a relatively simple framework of rules.
By establishing a process, a result can emerge that is truly new, a result that could not- or only partly be envisaged beforehand. In this sense processes are more effective in creating newness, they show greater complexity and have a more sophisticated internal structure.

information - Every project is formed through a process of accumulation of information. Projects should not depend on one pre-determined instantaneous idea. Instead a project should be formed in a sequence where additional complexity is constructed to integrate incoming information.
Our practise is based on the idea that information is the contemporary driving ingredient for a progressive architecture. New architecture is formed by information derived from new requirements, new knowledge, shifts in ways of thinking, and made possible by new materials and new technologies.
We see architecture as the art of forming organization on the basis of information.

potential - We develop our projects in a way that we not only exploit latent potential in the existing site or context, but that the process of the project produces potential itself. Theoretical topics are the cross fertilizing driving forces that highlight the potential of one element in one particular context to be used as something else in another context. For example; the theoretical idea of scalelessness, understood as continuity of concept through scale, provides a whole realm of intrinsic potential. 'Small' as the breeding-ground for ideas that could be projected onto the 'large', and 'large' seen as a laboratory for ideas that again are being looped back to the 'small', both scales benefiting from this cross-relationship. Another contributor to the unveiling of potential is the structure of the process itself; the idea of sequential accumulation and the fact of having only a limited set of parameters keeps the process transparent. Then as a third contributor to potential there is the gathering of thoughts and the construction of theory as a text. Looking at the work of our practise, not just within the boundaries of each particular brief but in a wider context, gives us an additional opportunity to lubricate the process of cross fertilization.