BIC: Common Ground

“Good architecture doesn’t happen naturally, it requires a conspiracy of circumstances and participants.” — David Chipperfield, Common Ground (Common Ground: A Critical Reader, Marsilio Editori, 2012)

Architect Bijoy Ramachandran has long held that buildings are never made alone, they are negotiated into being, shaped as much by the people who use them as by the hands that design them. It’s a belief he traces to David Chipperfield’s writing on architecture as collaboration, and one that guided his own vision for BIC.

To design a building for public life is to design for people you will…