Plasma Studio

Plasma Studio is a leading architecture and design practices with worldwide scope and outlook, engaging seamlessly a wide range of scales and types including furniture design, houses, hotels, cultural projects as well as landscape and urban planning. Starting with a range of small but challenging refurbishment projects in London between 1999 and 20... 02, founding partners Eva Castro and Holger Kehne then completed various new buildings in the Italian Dolomites where they opened a studio location with partner Ulla Hell in 2002. Combining complex geometries with local materials through digital design and fabrication processes, the studio seeks to develop a new local vernacular that engages with the landscape. Between 2003 and 2005 Plasma worked alongside some of the most famous architects and designers on one of the floors of Hotel Puerta America, Madrid. Plasma's floor was one of the most challenging of the 16 radically different takes, published widely. Although 7 years old it remains the pinacle of futuristic interior and used as iconic backdrop for high-profile advertising campaigns and fashion shoots. Recently Plasma has been involved in several large-scale mixed-use projects in China and was lead designer for theInternational Horticultural Expo in Xi'an with 37 ha and 12,000 sqm of projected buildings. The project, which opened in 2011 to approx 15 Mio visitors, enabled Plasma to develop a holistic and integrated sustainable vision. Plasma won the BD/Corus Young Architect of the Year Award and the Hot Dip Galvanising Award in 2002, the Next Generation Architects Award in 2007, and the Contract World Award in 2008. Additionally Plasma was selected for Architecture Record's Design Vanguard 2004 and Arquitectura Viva's Emergentes in 2007. The practice's work has been published widely: examples are Phaidon's 10x10_2 and Atlas of 21st Century Architecture, Taschen's Architecture Now, the Architectural Review, A+U, Abitare, Architektur Aktuell, Icon, Mark, Wallpaper, the New York Times, the Financial Times, El ...Read More