Whether a client engages OBMI for strategic advice before a brief exists, or for the design of a space already under construction, the work begins by reading the place.
That reading governs every decision that follows, through to completion. Storytelling holds it together, tying the identity of a place to the decisions made in its name.
Each discipline carries its own depth, and the seven rarely stand alone. On any single project they overlap and inform one another, with strategy and design developed side by side from the earliest conversations.
Practice and Approach
Every discipline begins with the same question: what does this place ask of us?
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