turn collaborative

Architectural design firm in Chicago with experience covering a variety of building types including Residential and Commercial work as well as Child Care Centers and Special Needs Housing. We work with an openness to the design process, as a means of avoiding formulaic solutions, and channeling a source for inspired results.

Our designs orient towards creating a body of work informed by a drive to inspire, and to be inspired. Whether it be strolling down a European street, entering a breathtaking cathedral, or viewing a barn enveloped in vast rolling landscape, a moment of inspiration, where light washes a wall, where form is the function, or a door rich in textured pattern entices us to draw nearer. Though futile to enumerate these moments with words, they lie in our innate ability to recognize beauty in our built environment.

The propensity to seek out shelter has been ongoing for millennia. Waking moments are spent in various enclosures, allowing us to work, play and live. While offering shelter, they affect our well-being in so far as they resonate with our senses. The flow of space, the quality of light, the assemblage and textures of materials, and the honesty of construction, are a few terms in the language of space making perceived intuitively. Our job is to assemble and weave this language together with the functional needs and visual goals of our clients.