Civic architecture and spatial research / 2026
Based in
RotterdamWorking across
Public realm01 / Selected projects
Civic / 2026
A former customs hall becomes a generous public room for debate, exhibitions, and everyday pause.
Project notes →Field Assembly mapped arrival patterns, daylight, and the building's existing thresholds before developing the room sequence with a local delivery team.
Culture / 2025
A new identity and wayfinding system for a regional archive that wanted its collection to meet the street.
Project notes →The work joins a compact visual index with a slower reading room, keeping the institution's public program visible from the pavement.
Research / Ongoing
A live study of the small civic spaces between housing, libraries, and transit stops.
Project notes →We are collecting observations with residents and caretakers to identify where a modest change in seating, shade, or signage can change who stays.
02 / How we work
Good public work is not a style applied at the end. It is a sequence of decisions people can understand and use.
We begin with the rhythms already present: who arrives, waits, gathers, and leaves.
Plans become clearer when movement, information, and ownership are shown together.
A durable system gives teams a shared language for decisions after handover.
We design for change, maintenance, and the people who will use a place tomorrow.
03 / Field notes
| Date | Entry | Read |
|---|---|---|
| 18.06.26 | What makes a civic threshold feel open? | Request the note → |
| 04.05.26 | Six ways to keep a public archive in the public eye. | Request the note → |
| 21.02.26 | Maintenance is part of the brief, not the footnote. | Request the note → |
04 / Start a conversation
Tell us where a place, program, or public-facing system is losing people. We will reply with the first useful question.