Context led architectural design and coordination.
We take a sensitive approach to making places. We can help you with context-specific designs; environments that fit you and your communities’ needs, budget, and values for sustainability. We are experienced in practicing across interdisciplinary fields and can support you not only with design and coordination but also with well-rounded social, material, and aesthetic consultation. Depending on the project, we also like to get hands on!
Projects
The Courts in Bristol, UK
Plural Studio was engaged by the Creative Youth Network (CYN), and directed by the Youth Advisory Board (YAB), as the interior designer for the sympathetic renovation of The Courts, Bristol. The Courts will be a creative enterprise and co-working space for Bristol with an emphasis on creating opportunities for youth to integrate into the creative industries. Read more…
Lodway Terrace Extension in Bristol, UK
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. Read more…
Lobe Lokal Canteen Remodeling in Berlin, Germany
Lobe Lokal is a restaurant and community space in Berlin. Their goal is to fight back against the climate crisis by respecting the seasons, shortening supply chains, eliminating food waste and bringing permaculture to the city. Read more…
Bravos Foundry Renovation in Galicia, Spain
This series of 150 year old stone buildings were abandoned in the 1970s in an unmodernised state without running water and heating. In 2017, renovation began for a new use. They are now a non-profit community site for engaging in collective practices as well as intellectual and artistic endeavours: "the site stresses that critical thinking is a way of living rooted in engagements with one another and with the environment."
Plural Studio worked on setting up the site, applying for permissions for renovation work, planning bathrooms and insulation measures. We were also hands-on advocates and consultants for working with natural building materials that would not harm the existing timber and stone structures. The main building is now transformed with comfortable amenities, but the overall site continues to be a place for on-going building, renovation, and maintenance as part of its aim for engaged community involvement.
https://bravosfoundry.com/
Selected Past Projects
Teaching architecture studios with the Institute for Design and Architectural Strategies, TU-Braunschweig 2017-2022
Co-director Anna Kostreva taught Bachelor's and Masters Courses and the Technical University in Braunschweig. She taught studios on adaptive re-use of heritage and infrastructural buildings, such as the Aalto Church in Wolfsburg or the Moabit Coal Energy Plant in Berlin. She also taught several studios on cooperative housing and organised a global university network to support discussions on housing and sustainability. Images: Floating University(l) and Marlon Hecher (r)
The New National Museum in Oslo, Collaboration with Kleihues-Schuwerk, 2015-2016
Co-director Anna Kostreva joined the project office in Oslo specifically to detail and plan all of the permanent furniture of the New national Museum in Oslo. This involved innumerable integrated elements for the main entrance lobby, the book store, the cafe, the public lockers, the library, the theatre space, and more. The furniture was planned under architect Klaus Schuwerk's ethos: "The materials should stand the test of time, so that the building can age with patina and dignity." Photos: New National Museum
Mehr! Theater Hamburg, Collaboration with F101 Architekten, 2012-2015
Co-director Anna Kostreva worked on all phases of this project, from pre-design to construction detailing and oversight with contractors and engineers. The Mehr! Theater is a unique adaptive re-use of the Grossmarkt in Hamburg, originally designed by German modernist architect Bernhard Hermkes. The venue maximises flexibility as a multipurpose venue that can, for instance, transform from a fully fledged stage for musicals requiring technical grids and under-stage mechanics to a theatre-in-the-round with seating facing the stage from four different directions. Photos: Andreas Meichsner
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