Studio for critical inquiry, publishing and architectural design.

Studio für kritische Untersuchung, Veröffentlichung und architektonische Gestaltung.


Plural Studio Modus Operandi

  • 1. CONSEQUENCES: What impact will the work we deliver have?

  • 2. CONTEXT: How should the project best respond to historical and site contexts?

  • 3. MATERIALS: What are the energy and resource flows of the project?

  • 4. LABOUR: Where can conventional building practices be improved?

  • 5. CARE: You will receive honest communication throughout our engagement.

  • 6. ETHICS: How can we be the best custodians of schedules and budgets?

  • 1. KONSEQUENZEN: Welche Auswirkungen wird die von uns geleistete Arbeit haben?

  • 2. KONTEXT: Wie sollte das Projekt am besten auf den historischen und örtlichen Kontext reagieren?

  • 3. MATERIALIEN: Welches sind die Energie- und Ressourcenströme des Projekts?

  • 4. ARBEITSKRAFT: Wo können konventionelle Baupraktiken verbessert werden?

  • 5. FÜRSORGE: Sie erhalten während unseres gesamten Engagements eine ehrliche Kommunikation.

  • 6. ETHIK: Wie können wir die besten Betreuer von Zeitplänen und Budgets sein?

World Architects featured Seeing Fire | Seeing Meadows as part of a book collection of “Other Ways of making Books.” Anna’s Novel is featured alongside other radical works of print like Cities Made Differently by David Graeber
The Courts project with the Creative Youth Network in Bristol, UK. One of the courtrooms has been renovated as a co-working space for individual desk rental. The woodwork from the court was required to be maintained by the National Lottery Fund. Plur
One of the courtrooms has been renovated as a blackbox theatre. The woodwork from the court was required to be maintained by the National Lottery Fund. Plural worked together with a Youth Advisory Board to develop the interiors of the building, inclu
The historic roof lights were carefully restored to offer much needed light into the foyer spaces. Plural worked together with a Youth Advisory Board to develop the interiors of the building, including a light pink coloration for the upper plasterwor
The social kitchens and meeting rooms offer a contemporary and subversive take on the historic court building, providing tenants and visitors to the building spaces to connect across generations and reimagine their city together. Plural Studio was e
Plural worked together with a Youth Advisory Board to develop the interiors of the building, including the fit out of non-gendered single and multi-person toilets for a forward thinking Bristol. Plural Studio was engaged by the Creative Youth Networ
The historic magistrates courts were built in the 1870s and used until the 1970s. It had four courtrooms, some of which had stairs down to the basement holding cells. These cells are still in existence and awaiting future renovation for new programs.
Plural worked together with a Youth Advisory Board to develop the interiors of the building, including wayfinding colours for doors and circulation spaces. Plural Studio was engaged by the Creative Youth Network as the interior designer for the symp
The Courts project with the Creative Youth Network in Bristol, UK. The entries from Silver St. and Bridewell St. open up into representative historic foyer areas. Plural Studio was engaged by the Creative Youth Network as the interior designer for t
Lodway Terrace Extension in Bristol, 2024 Construction Comparison Plural presented the client with a comparison of three different construction systems in order to collectively think through how we would keep the build within the tight budget, appro
Lodway Terrace Extension in Bristol, 2024 This is a typical mid-terrace property in England built in 1935 with solid masonry walls. The clients were looking for an extension to expand their kitchen and dining room: making more room around the counte
Lodway Terrace Extension in Bristol, 2024 This is a typical mid-terrace property in England built in 1935 with solid masonry walls. The clients were looking for an extension to expand their kitchen and dining room: making more room around the counte
Lodway Terrace Extension in Bristol, 2024 This is a typical mid-terrace property in England built in 1935 with solid masonry walls. The clients were looking for an extension to expand their kitchen and dining room: making more room around the counte
Lodway Terrace Extension in Bristol, 2024 This is a typical mid-terrace property in England built in 1935 with solid masonry walls. The clients were looking for an extension to expand their kitchen and dining room: making more room around the counte
“We feel incredibly lucky to have met and worked with Plural on this build. Our budget was limited from the start, and we assumed this meant that we could not afford to consider eco options for the build - but Plural guided us to understan