van der Architects is a Tokyo-based, international architecture firm operating in the Asian region. We are dedicated to provide solutions through innovative architecture and urban design. Our aim is to create an architecture where users have an authentic experience of space. This is done through careful selection of materials, the tactility of space, the use of shadow, light and reflection, by inserting a variety of viewpoints, by taking dimensionality of the space and our mobility into consideration. An authentic space is not so much seen but rather it is felt. Our clients share our believe that architecture, the creation of space has a strong influence on its users. As such our clients feel a personal as well as social responsibility that the spaces they commission us to design will help the well-being of the users of these spaces.

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