platau | platform for architecture and urbanism

Founded in Beirut in 2013, platau is a collaborative practice that operates in architecture, urbanism, and landscape. Combining parallel tracks in research , practice and academia, We consider architecture as a part of a whole, and reflect on such connectedness by pursuing parallel tracks of inquiry; like craft and geography. As such, each project's embodies formal attitudes that alternate between its internal systems and the way it inscribes in its larger order. platau uses design research, critical thinking and intensive communication with clients to create projects that are adaptable to the needs of their users and environments, as well as their evolution over time. We investigate architecture as a medium that allows new ways of experience and inhabitation, encouraging the interaction between usage, context, materiality and form to shape the design logics and outcomes of each project. Through ongoing initiatives with municipalities, we draw on our diverse expertise, analysis and best practices to articulate strategic visions with a holistic dimension; integrating people, economy, ecology, infrastructural and natural systems. In each case, we aspire to reinvent how public spaces and cities are accessed, perceived and experienced and the way they integrate socially, physically and economically in their expanded territory.