APPROACH
Entropic is committed towards re-imaging the built environment, in urbanism and architecture with a focus towards livability, contemporary challenges, and architectural innovation. Our multi-disciplinary team consists of Architects, Urbanists and Engineers. Our Barcelona Studio works with both the local and global market, with experience largely in North Europe, South Europe, and the Middle East as we believe that engaging in the urban challenges of one city, can help inspire new solutions for others.
Our passion is in an analytical approach, deconstructing a projects inherent challenges, down to first principles, leading through a process of deduction to often unintuitive, yet always resolute answers. Our search is for the hidden, the opportunity, the seemingly insurmountable challenges, and the projects ultimate vision.
Entropy is the act of transformation, a dissipation of energy, from a state of order to one of statistical disorder. Entropy is the story of both the micro interactions of atomic particles to the macro evolution of the galaxies as we know them today. It is to Entropy that we owe, the awe-inspiring complexity of the universe today. The 20th century urban paradigm was that of creating over simplicity, creating static and soulless cities, instead, Entropic embraces the joyful chaos of urban life and human expression. Our utopian vision is that of cities and buildings, which drive ever more complex cultural interactions, the unexpected social exchanges from communities to individuals and the nature-based realignment to the rewilding of our human environment. We believe that the city should not shape society, but society should shape the city. We are about life, architectural celebration and the core values which make our society meaningful. We are optimists, innovators, and designers. We are futurists, utopians and dreamers. We are Entropic.
MAGDALENA MRÓZ
Magdalena is a Polish Born Architect, and Co-founder of Entropic. Magda has led numerous projects in a range of scales, from small interventions, through high-rise to city planning, in architecture companies, Bjarke Ingels Group and Barcode Architects, for over 5 years. With a MSc, an engineering degree, in Architecture and Urban Design in Cracow University of Technology and education in Preservation of Cultural Heritage in the Jagiellonian University, Magdalena's work follows contextual and inclusive design.
Studying and living in places like Cracow, Barcelona and Copenhagen influenced her focus on the human scale, with an analytical approach towards socio-cultural context. Through her years of experience, Magdalena has found, that intelligently designed interventions, regardless of scale, when strategically utilized can have a radical impact on the way we interact and experience our environment. Often driving her philosophical output, are nature-based solutions, perceiving nature as an ultimate technology which has the power to adapt, optimize and sustain in any given scenario. Learning from how our digital world too has born new paradigms in user interface, Magda takes a large part of her inspiration, to influence how she designs real life objects. Her drive is towards projects which create a natural sense of intuition, which stimulate playful response, and which encourage a joyful interaction. In essence, Magda seeks to create projects which humans innately love.
GEOFFREY EBERLE
Geoffrey Eberle is a British born Architect and Co-founder of Entropic. Since 2013 he has worked in Copenhagen, Barcelona and the UK on a range of ambitious global projects on both the urban, architectural and landscape scale. He led a number of high profile projects in Bjarke Ingels Group for over 5 years, and founded the Rotterdam based, Studio Bold, winning a number of projects in the international market. His approach towards architecture has largely been influenced in the fields of urbanism and robotic fabrication in his education from both the UK and Netherlands, with a prerogative to solving contemporary issues ranging from environmentalism, urban quality and architectural innovation. Geoffrey’s focus is towards the opportunities unlocked through technology and innovation..
Geoffrey fundamentally believes that our lived experiences derive largely from our environment, both in how we operate as individuals, but also in what gives our lives value. In this conception, the role of architects is to reimagine the world in the closest approximation, to our social values, to our individual desires and to the relationship with our natural world. This requires a constant re-evaluation off the presuppositions our world is built upon, and benchmarking against the emergent contemporary social challenges our world faces.
WHAT DO WE DO?
We work on all scales and all design sectors, with a team of multi-disciplinary designers and multi-cultural backgrounds.
In order to innovate, we first need to understand. Driven by a scientific approach, each of our studio's projects undergoes analysis, hypothesis and recursively testing multitudes of iterations, to deduce an optimal resolution to the unique and inherent challenges. Much of our process is derived from simply understanding the first principles of a design challenge, so we can find out the nuances, and the implicit paradoxes in a project.
Entropic is inspired ultimately in the processes of nature, in how randomness and environmental nuance, give rise to a vast array, of not only hyper rational, yet infinitely beautiful and unique life forms. Only when considering all the interactions between an environment and a living object, does life’s adaptations, truly reveal their inherent logic. Beauty and function therefore become intrinsically inseparable.
Crucial is his embrace of the best available digital tools available, to advance a projects potential, and ultimate completion. With digital tools, we can test numerous iterations, and hybridize virtues of different successful versions to advance our design more rapidly than conventional approaches.
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