A vocabulary of purist forms
SIGNATURE DESIGN
With over 20 years of experience, Co.Studio serves its clients in the conception and creation of pioneering architecture, timeless interior design, and high-end product design.
Driven by a strong sense of visual aesthetics and spatial purity, design duo and co-founders Gert Van den Steen and Christian Van Suetendael translate the architectural and environmental needs of their clients into the optimal balance between functional efficiency, spatial experience and emotional evocation.
« We create spellbinding environments – through lines and light – that awaken the senses and evoke an innate feeling of comfort. »
By maintaining a continuous open and personal dialogue with clients, CoStudio manages to identify the practical challenges of tomorrow. In a way of resolving these challenges, Co.Studio embeds within each space a convertible spectrum of potential functions – work, residence or leisure – pushing any space beyond its limitations and to its full potential.
In a society that is permanently evolving, Co.Studio diversifies our ways of life, by piecing together the various possibilities of any given space and maximizing the spatial and functional experience.
Through timeless design, dynamic functionality and enduring sensual and tactual awareness, Co.Studio creates the environment the client desires – from the structural design and all the interior architectural elements, down to the materials and the products – within the space he or she has.
Approach
« Everything starts with a good plan. »
From the initial client consultation and those first lines drawn onto paper, up to the first steps into the created environment, Co.Studio maintains a keen sense for client-driven, innovative interior architecture and design.
Whether working within an existing space or designing for a future project, Co.Studio emphasizes the importance of creating the right spatial experience and emotional evocation, specifically catered to each client’s unique requirements and history.
Starting from a broad understanding of clients’ necessities, through the proper selection – and design – of quality materials and high-end products, eloquent spatial orientation, effective light incidence and durable construction, Co.Studio strives to deliver the ideal realisation of clients’ expectations and requirements.
Disruption
« We break apart, reshape and reassemble – innovating spatial planning. »
In a society that is in permanent evolution, Co.Studio’s pioneering design theories motivate clients’ perspectives to evolve as well.
Co.Studio reshapes a given space by fragmenting it into organically interwoven units, maximizing the available space’s luxury and convenience for each individual unit.
Understanding the dynamic nature of spatial functionality, Co.Studio designs convertible units that hold the potential for any number of future functions—work, residence or leisure.
Art Direction
« We write in images. »
Co.Studio co-founders Gert Van Den Steen and Christian Van Suetendael spearhead a creative vision of modesty and purity, facilitating an evocative and inspiring spatial experience.
Co.Studio safeguards it visionary designs and architectural quality, from initial design up to realization, by maintaining vigilant creative control throughout the whole process—ensuring even the smallest conceivable detail remains in synchronicity with the overall design.
Innovation & Future
« Necessities evolve. Thus so should your environment. »
Co.Studio strives to create environments that are already fully equipped for, and convertible to, the lifestyle requirements and functional necessities of tomorrow.
Breaking away from classical structural patterns, Co.Studio innovates spatial planning by designing in function of the circulation of people within a space – maximizing the comfort, security and experience within.
Innovative Living
« A unique way of shaping the available space – A unique way of re-shaping functionality and comfort. »
By streamlining form and function, as well as by re-thinking the spatial distribution of necessary functions within a unit, Co.Studio resolves the challenges posed by increasingly compact living, while at the same time maximizing comfort and lightness.
Designing Needs
« We not only translate our clients’ environmental needs. We understand their practical needs as well. »
By designing their own lines of high-end quality products, Co.Studio showcases a strong understanding of their clients’ practical necessities, as well as safeguards their requirements for aesthetic purity and conceptual quality.
By actively seeking out leading production and manufacturing companies with which to engage in constructive and productive collaborations, Co.Studio ensures flawless and immaculate materializations of all their designs.
« Co.Studio enables you to resolve the practical challenges of tomorrow, by designing for the future, today. »
In a permanently evolving urban landscape, Co.Studio is the ideal partner for any project developer looking to push their property beyond its limitations and to its full potential.
With an innovative approach, Co.Studio pushes the spatial and environmental assets of your property to their full potential, by reorganizing the available space into organically interwoven units.
Co.Studio ensures that each unit is readily convertible to any number of future functions: work, residence or leisure.
- 1998Since
- 267realisations
- 6460working days
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