studioMAS [architecture & urban design]
Established in 2000.
studioMAS was established at the dawn of the new millennium in response to the architectural and planning opportunities offered in South Africa. Design excellence is at the core of the service we offer. studioMAS design skills are tempered with our determination to consistently and sincerely deliver a quality product within the financial and time restraints of the client's brief with a strong regard for environmental issues. Each and every appointment is regarded as a singular opportunity to achieve design ingenuity - making problems into opportunities and opportunities into reality. studioMAS avoid irresponsible (aesthetic) novelty, focusing instead on creative design solutions, sometimes borrowing and adapting successful solutions from the past. In this way studioMAS strive to design places, spaces and environments that offer the end users quality life choices and add value to their lives.
studioMAS may be a small company, but as studioMAS projects prove, the ideas and ambitions are not. Whether studioMAS design a custom-made table in one of the houses they've designed or prepare an urban development framework for the inner-city, the work is guided by a complex, yet universal value system. This value system recognises that while buildings need to function according to a simple logic, they also need to offer added richness to their users ... providing poetry for everyday life. But this is still not enough - studioMAS have to take the value system further, because they know that the projects they design do not exist in isolation - they form part of a much larger landscape. From urban to rural, cultural or natural landscapes, studioMAS work is more considered than egotistical. It aspires to materialise in brick and mortar excellence and quality, so that in years to come the places they have created hold as much value then, as studioMAS do now.
