Architecture for shared life / New York + Copenhagen

Space is a common material.

We design civic, cultural, and residential places that make room for how people gather, learn, and live.

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Atrium Arts Center, a fictional contemporary cultural pavilion with concrete volumes, glass walls, and a burnt-orange facade

Selected project / 01

Atrium Arts Center
Place
Richmond, US
Type
Cultural
Status
Concept / 2026

Position / 00

Buildings become useful when their structure is clear, their edges are generous, and people can make them their own.

Selected work / 01—03

Three ways to belong.

Showing 3 projects
Wide view of the fictional Atrium Arts Center and its shaded colonnade

01 / Cultural

Atrium Arts Center

A civic room built around a shaded edge: galleries, workshops, and a public court meet beneath one legible structural frame.

Richmond, USConcept / 2026

Fictional low coastal residence organized around a sheltered planted courtyard

02 / Residential

Tidal House

A compact home divided into low volumes so daily life can move between shelter, wind, courtyard, and horizon.

Montauk, USConcept / 2025

Fictional public library reading hall with repeated concrete bays, timber shelving, and skylights

03 / Civic

Commons Library

A daylit reading hall where the structural rhythm gives every table, window seat, and shelf a clear place.

Queens, USConcept / 2024

How we work / 04 moves

From question tocommon ground.

01 / Listen

Find the real brief.

We begin with people, use, climate, budget, and the daily patterns a project must hold.

02 / Order

Make the system visible.

Structure, circulation, light, and material are developed as one clear construction.

03 / Test

Work at every scale.

Models and prototypes test the distance between the urban idea and the handrail.

04 / Build

Carry intent to site.

We stay close to fabrication and construction so the finished place keeps its logic.

Practice / What we do

One practice, three fields.

Architecture

Buildings and interiors shaped from use, structure, climate, and material economy.

Public space

Shared landscapes and civic rooms that support informal meeting and everyday access.

Adaptive reuse

Careful transformations that keep what works, reveal what matters, and add only what is needed.

Studio / Since 2013

A collective way of making.

Bauhaus Architecture is a fictional practice working between buildings, interiors, and the public realm. Our teams are small by design and connected from first sketch to site.

Studios
New York
Copenhagen
Scale
Object
to district
Focus
Civic
everyday life
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