Archive of light
A small cultural archive that lets changing mountain light become part of the collection.
Architecture and cultural practice / Chur, CH / 2026
Places
hold
memory.
We shape buildings, public rooms, and identities for people living at the edge of the built world.
View the work
01 / Selected projects
Built for the weather.
Listening ridge
Wayfinding, seating, and a quiet route through a protected high valley.
North room
A civic interior planned around arrival, orientation, and shared time.
Discuss a place ->02 / The practice
Ground
first.
01 / Read the site
Context is material.
We begin with weather, movement, memory, and the daily work already present. A strong plan makes those forces legible.
02 / Make a system
One clear gesture.
We give each place a durable organizing idea, then carry it through structure, signs, furniture, and language.
03 / Leave room
Useful restraint.
We edit before we decorate. The result should become more specific over time, not more crowded.
04 / Work together
Shared authorship.
Clients, craftspeople, communities, and landscapes all hold part of the brief. We build the conversation into the process.
03 / Field notes
Current ground.
A working register of places, questions, and next thresholds. No finished image stands alone.
- 01 / 26
- Rhone headwaters study
- Public landscape / Valais
- In survey
- 11 / 25
- Station platform 07
- Mobility / Graubunden
- In design
- 08 / 25
- House of weather
- Exhibition / South Tyrol
- Opening soon
- 03 / 25
- The long table
- Community / Uri
- Built
04 / Start a conversation
Bring the site into focus.
Tell us what is changing: a building, a public route, a collection, or the story that holds it together.