renderessay · may 2026
regional tectonics.
The studio’s working agenda: the environment is the brief, read through ten lenses, at the scale of the body, the building and the seabed.
insights · essays, project notes, research, tools
insights.
What we learn on the way — written down, including the parts that didn’t work. Failure is information.
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essay · oct 2026
making as thinking.
Why we try a curve, a seat or a sheet of copper in the workshop before we commit to it, and four times the workshop changed what we built.
essay · may 2026
we make what matters.
Why a small Maltese studio does what it does, and how we work a project out: from the people and the place, through computation, to the workshop and back.
research · oct 2026
what a reef wants from clay.
What a year in the sea taught us about printed clay, what it didn’t, and how Sikka, our research into reefs for Maltese waters, goes on from here.
tool · oct 2026
mapping an island’s metabolism.
Why we built Malta Metabolism, a map of what flows into the island, through it and out again, and how it keeps measured and modelled apart.
project notes · sept 2025
cinema visiona.
A basement in Madliena turned into a home cinema where the seating is a landscape, and the two that followed, in Għargħur and Baħrija.
research · oct 2026
printed clay, so far.
What we have printed in clay since 2021, from vases to cellular blocks to reef pieces, and why none of it is on a building yet.
tool · oct 2026
jimm.
Our own system for designing, pricing and making joinery from one set of rules, so the drawing, the quote and the CNC always agree.
tool · oct 2026
d’arcy.
Why we built D’Arcy, a free library of 106 live models of how patterns form, and how it helps us read our own work.
essay · dec 2025
make what matters: why bespoke?
Why we think made-to-measure joinery is worth it, at home or at work, and how a piece goes from your question to a wall that fits.
project notes · sept 2025
panta hub.
A showroom and reception for technical products, made into a place you walk through like an infographic.
project notes · sept 2025
micro-living large.
A small bedroom where the wardrobe and the bed became one piece of joinery: a sleep cove.
news · oct 2026
press & awards.
Where the work has been recognised and written about, with dates and links, kept up to date.