Focused on exploring innovative approaches to materials, fabrication, and craftsmanship, QASTIC is a boutique design-built studio whose practice spans the fields of architecture, urban design, installation art, multimedia performance, digital media, and print.
we go beyond the specific brief, the site and its physicality, and convention, with an open and impartial approach. We work beyond the usual disciplines, seeking collaborations and solutions with the like-minded, the equally committed, with those who recognize the need to look at the world with a fresh and critical eye. We ask Questions and try to provide solid Answers in a fantASTIC way to those questions. Q+A+STIC = QASTIC.
QASTIC's collaborative practice operates with a unique spirit of curiosity and research through defining questions around fundamental aspects of the projects. As a result of these questions, architectural solutions would emerge through restless studies in the program, material qualities, and fabrication systems in defining new geometries, structures, and forms.
Our key values:
1 - Open Dialogue
Rich, open dialogues are critical in defining how projects develop from concept to completion and form the basis of ongoing client relationships. Through teamwork amongst Partners, Associates, and our project teams, including those in our regional Studios, and in exchange with all parties involved from politicians to craftsmen, we address all perspectives.
2 - Individuals Grow
We are committed to providing professional development at all levels, from apprenticeships to internships to life-long learning opportunities, and we cultivate relationships with universities and other educational and research institutions. We promote the flow of knowledge between project teams through dedicated platforms for exchange, and we offer training with external organizations. Personal and professional growth is promoted, encouraged, and expected.
3 - Client Interaction Value
And our client is vital, who comes on the journey and challenges our thinking; together we look for the opportunities that might traditionally be overlooked. Our best future projects are the ones that will teach us the most.
