Business type

Crowdsource

Service/product description

HDA comprises a team of architects and engineers providing specialist design services. Their work strives to provide design that is a synthesis of poetic intent and physical reality. Each project, big or small, varying from long span structures down to a small fixing detail, begins with a clear architectural idea with its own specific story to tell. The successful realization of the idea is dependent on a thorough understanding of technical constraints. The studio experienced team of designers from diverse backgrounds specialize in works of complex geometry, innovative structures, 3D CAD, graphic design, 3D imaging, engineering and detail design. HDA has an innovative vision of the latest technologies of construction and communication, as a way to solve complex problems of contemporary world. Technologies allows architects and creative people to overtake standardization of modernism, architectural branding of starchitects, and go towards a more human, nature-oriented and parametric architecture. HDA work as independent architects, design consultants, and in collaboration with other architects.

What does 'openness' mean in this case?

HDA runs an open research platform named complexitys which is about architecture and complex geometry. The blog aims to build a space for open debate on contemporary architecture and new technology issues. Complexitys is also the central node of an extended, international connected network system of sharing and debate tools like flickr, twitter, youtube and several external blogs – it collaborates with the spanish open platform www.ecosistemaurbano.org and architectural “avant-garde” www.thinkark.com and on-line architecture magazine www.archdaily.com In the field of architecture, where contents are over-protected by the culture of copyright, HDA put forward the idea of sharing in creative commons as a way to get higher quality results. Photos, videos, texts, methods, research, calculation and drawing scripts which are traditionally uses as the product to, are shared for free and everyone is invited to use them to improve them. – http://complexitys.com/tag/script/ – This is based on a future vision of practice based on design services and not on the product itself. The very idea of sharing photos or videos about star-architects productions under a CC license is often delicate but HDA believes in openness as a way to diversify architecture business and to overcome the flattening of culture tipical of globalization process.