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A home is never finished. Families grow, work moves in and out of the house, and the street outside changes faster than any drawing set. We design residences and mixed-use developments as places in the making — buildings whose plans absorb change without losing their clarity.

That begins with walking beside our partners. On single-family residences in Addis Ababa we work from the client's daily rhythms outward: how they cook, receive guests, rest, and expand. On high-density work — Super Bobo Luxury Towers in Conakry, Bole Classic on Meskel Flower, the Mexico Tower — we stack retail, work and home so each reinforces the others, and so the building can rebalance between them as the market shifts.

Everything is intentional and utilitarian: every square metre earns its place, circulation is generous where life concentrates and lean where it doesn't, and structure is arranged so tomorrow's alterations don't fight yesterday's decisions.

These are buildings defined by flow. Guests arrive and depart; congregations gather and disperse; materials enter one end of a hall and leave the other transformed. When motion is the program, we treat it as the design's spine rather than a problem to be managed.

At the Mora Heights hotel expansion in Arba Minch, the sequence from arrival to room to landscape is choreographed so the building introduces the place, not just the plan. Our public and religious work does the opposite and on purpose: in cities that refuse to stand still, these buildings hold the still point — durable, legible, open to everyone.

Industrial and manufacturing projects are where our utilitarian conviction is most literal. The process sets the geometry; daylight, ventilation and expansion joints follow the work being done. Nothing decorative for its own sake — and precisely because of that, the honesty of these buildings is what gives them their character.

Cities are the clearest proof that places move. Addis Ababa is remaking itself block by block; every neighbourhood we study is somewhere between what it was and what it is becoming. Urban design, for us, is designing that transition — not freezing a masterplan, but setting up frameworks that anticipate growth instead of resisting it.

From the housing neighbourhood in Bochum to density and neighbourhood studies in Addis Ababa, we work with municipalities, communities and developers as partners in the same walk: understanding what residents need now, what the city will demand next, and where the two can meet without demolishing what already works.

Landscape is the connective tissue of that thinking — the streets, courtyards and planted ground that carry daily movement between buildings. We design it with the same intentional, utilitarian discipline: shade where people wait, ground that drains, routes that shorten a working day.

Places in the making doesn't stop at the building envelope. A room changes use across a single day; a piece of furniture outlives several rooms; an identity has to keep making sense as the organisation behind it grows. We carry the same design philosophy down to these scales.

Our interiors are arranged around what actually happens in them — and rearranged easily when that changes. Fixed elements are kept few and deliberate; everything else is designed to move.

In furniture and product work, such as our campus furniture series, an object earns its form through use: how it is sat on, stacked, carried, repaired. Graphic and publishing projects follow the same rule at the flattest scale — communication stripped to what serves the reader, built on grids that can absorb tomorrow's content. Intentional and utilitarian, from the city down to the page.