The studio.
We connect architecture, landscape and urbanism to challenge convention. From buildings to cities, we give ambitious ideas a buildable form—creating places where people and nature thrive together. We bring research, design, coordination and identity into one practice—from the first question to the work on site.
Partner, Design and Technical Director
Geoffrey Eberle is a British architect and co-founder of ENTROPIC. His experience includes Bjarke Ingels Group and co-founding Bold Collective, with work spanning architecture, landscape and urban design. His approach connects environmental thinking with architectural innovation.
Partner
Magdalena Mróz is a Polish architect and co-founder of ENTROPIC. Her experience includes Bjarke Ingels Group and Barcode Architects, from buildings to city-scale projects. Her work brings together human scale, cultural context and nature-based thinking.
A practice across borders
25 Countries worked in
Disclosed published and anonymous archived work, including approved country presenceGeographic sources: Natural Earth (public domain); Earth imagery: NASA Earth Observatory, Blue Marble, Reto Stöckli and the NASA Goddard team; city lookup adapted from GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Approximate public locations, not site boundaries.
Services / Project delivery
Every project begins with a question: what can this place become without losing what makes it particular? We read the brief alongside the territory—its topography, water, climate, movement and patterns of everyday life—so a direction can emerge from their relationships rather than from a predetermined image.
At A’Thuraya City in Muscat, that approach takes the form of settlements with distinct characters, connected by ecological corridors and mobility networks. Valleys, slopes and agricultural landscapes become the organising structure of a proposed city. Research becomes a framework for deciding where to build, what to retain and how different ways of living can belong to one connected whole. The ambition is not simply more development, but a clearer relationship between urban growth and the land that supports it.
Image unavailable. Open this project.A'Thuraya City
A direction begins with close observation. The Bedouin Retreat studies the wadi, rock formations and principles of shelter and hospitality before proposing a spatial language. The rhythm and assembly of Bedouin textiles become a way of organising parts, not decoration to reproduce. Research connects cultural knowledge and landscape conditions to a contemporary design proposition.
Feasibility brings the brief, site and spatial system into the same discussion. The Study Canyon proposes a modular timber campus connected to existing university buildings. Two atriums organise circulation and shared life; teaching spaces sit within a repeatable framework. The project illustrates how programme, connections and construction logic can be examined together before a direction becomes fixed.
Image unavailable. Open this project.The Study Canyon
A masterplan gives relationships a spatial structure. Rethinking Li connects the historic centre and waterfront through a nature corridor, with civic buildings, gathering places and housing arranged along its route. Flood-adaptive landscapes and wooden housing form part of the proposal. The framework connects everyday movement with the river, allowing urban life and landscape to inform one another.
Image unavailable. Open this project.Rethinking Li
Place identity can emerge from the way a building belongs. At the National Ethnography Museum, five homestead-like volumes reinterpret Lithuanian rural heritage around a shared exhibition hall. Timber, reed roofs and reclaimed brick connect the proposal to familiar materials. The project demonstrates an identity carried by scale, sequence and construction language, rather than a graphic sign added afterwards.
Image unavailable. Open this project.National Ethnography Museum
Design makes these relationships tangible. We work between the scale of the city and the experience of a room, bringing landscape, architecture and movement into the same conversation. Form is developed through the brief, but also through the ways people gather, approach, pause and look.
For Madinah Grand Mosque, the proposal connects prayer, learning and public life through a sequence of gardens, courtyards and shaded thresholds. The rose informs a layered architectural language: folds, openings and filtered light give the large programme a more intimate rhythm. Working with Aldowayan Architects, the project explores how a contemporary civic and religious place can carry cultural meaning without becoming an isolated monument. The design is understood as a journey, shaped as much by the spaces between its buildings as by the buildings themselves.
Architecture gives a shared idea a clear form. The Forest Nexus proposes a school and community centre whose intersecting circular spaces connect learning, recreation and neighbourhood life. Classrooms and studios gather around a central free space within a forest setting. Its geometry is not an isolated gesture: it organises the meeting of different programmes and people.
Image unavailable. Open this project.The Forest Nexus
Interiors begin with the quality of an everyday encounter. Forest Restaurant frames dining through timber ribs, filtered light and views into the surrounding woodland. Its restaurant and lookout form two related experiences: shelter at ground level and an ascent through the canopy. The proposal brings material, atmosphere and spatial sequence together, connecting an intimate room with a larger landscape.
Public space gains strength when movement and landscape are designed together. Aarhus Park proposes a continuous loop connecting sport, culture and recreation across Kongelunden. Pedestrian and cycling routes meet blue-green corridors and wild gardens. The park is conceived as a connected civic landscape, where different activities share a legible structure while leaving room for seasonal and ecological change.
An envelope can do more than separate inside and outside. NEST studies a modular ceramic and clay façade system with nesting cavities, pollinator niches and planting pockets. Interchangeable configurations explore how unused vertical surfaces could become habitats. This research treats the façade as an interface between architecture and ecology; its environmental ambitions remain questions to test, not guaranteed outcomes.
Image unavailable. Open this project.Nest Facade
Infrastructure can join destinations while creating a destination itself. Himlavalvet proposes a bridge for vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists, with a climbable arch and places to pause above the river. Its weathering-steel language recalls the historic Pyttebron crossing; timber decking brings a closer scale. Mobility, structure and public experience become parts of one civic idea.
Image unavailable. Open this project.Himlavalvet
An idea becomes useful when its spatial ambition can be carried into clear decisions. We aim to keep the same intent legible across plans, façades, material choices and the coordination of a project team, rather than treating technical development as a separate phase.
Hillside Residences in Tirana brings that ambition into a residential proposal. Its setbacks are more than a skyline gesture: they organise balconies, planted edges and apartment relationships around light, privacy and views. A rhythmic urban frontage and active ground floor connect the tower to the city, while efficient layouts keep the domestic scale in focus. The project illustrates the questions that guide our delivery work—how each part supports the whole, how the design remains coherent as it develops, and where collaboration can make the intended experience more precise.
Image unavailable. Open this project.Hillside Residences
A shared design direction makes a complex brief legible across disciplines. SKRA Park Stadium brings athletics, a public route and parkland into one proposal, developed with studio4space and ARUP. Slender columns and a public crown connect structural expression with civic use. The reference illustrates the relationships a lead-design brief must coordinate; project-specific appointments and responsibilities are agreed separately.
Image unavailable. Open this project.SKRA Park Stadium
Design management keeps individual decisions connected to the whole. Jubilee links atriums, terraces and gardens through a continuous sequence of learning and meeting spaces. Developed with studio4space, the proposal brings circulation and façade rhythm into the same architectural idea. It illustrates why programme, thresholds and envelope decisions need a coherent framework as a design develops.
Coordination is most valuable where different needs meet. The Nature Gate combines a kindergarten and library with a shared gateway, gymnasium and café. Its rooftop playground and timber-construction ambition connect programme, access, structure and the existing pine forest. Developed with studio4space, the proposal illustrates the interfaces that a project team must resolve together without losing the central spatial idea.
Image unavailable. Open this project.The Nature Gate
Construction supervision connects drawings, materials and site decisions within an agreed appointment. Sameem Tallat Residences has reached excavation, as recorded in its published site update. Developed with Aldowayan Architects, its terraces, screens and recessed openings make the relationship between privacy and outdoor life tangible. The project is a reference for carrying architectural intent towards construction, not a claim of completed delivery.
Image unavailable. Open this project.Sameem Tallat Residences
02 / Thinking as one
We challenge the idea that a brief has only one answer. For us, entropy describes the potential released when different forces meet. We bring climate, culture, nature and use into one design process—turning competing demands into a direction none could produce alone.
The familiar is not the limit. We use research and experimentation to open new ways of building, sharing space and living together.
Architecture shapes more than buildings. It shapes the resources we use, the lives we share and the ecosystems we depend on. We believe that gives our discipline a responsibility to challenge the way things are built.
Our strategy is to bring people and nature into a stronger relationship through design. We pursue this at every scale, from the detail of a room to the structure of a city, turning shared ambitions into decisions that can be developed, tested and built.
We reject the separation of architecture from landscape, and people from nature. Climate, culture and everyday life belong in the same design conversation. The strongest ideas emerge where these forces meet.
Regeneration is an ambition to work towards, not a claim to take for granted. A clear design strategy asks what a project can restore, what it can make possible and how those outcomes can be demonstrated.
Research exposes the constraints; experimentation opens alternatives. We connect architecture, landscape and urbanism from the outset, translating the brief into a shared strategy that can guide the project through change.
We carry that direction into delivery. Drawings, models and comparisons make ideas open to scrutiny. Coordination brings them into focus. Our task is to hold onto the ambition while resolving the realities of building.
Every place has its own intelligence. Climate, topography, local culture and patterns of daily life shape our design strategy. We look closely at what is already there before proposing what comes next.
Context is not a style to copy, but a set of relationships to understand. Our designs draw character from those relationships, allowing a project to belong to its setting while opening new possibilities for its future.
We treat the brief as an opening, not a limit. Questioning its assumptions and comparing alternatives turns constraints into a clear design strategy.
Architecture, urbanism, landscape, infrastructure and interiors develop together. A shared strategy connects decisions across scales, so each part can contribute to a stronger whole.
Adaptable spaces, shared resources and room for nature are part of a long-term strategy. We design for changing needs, not only for the first day of use.
Climate, landform, culture and everyday life give each place its character. We build our strategy from these conditions, creating architecture that belongs to its setting while looking forward.
Evidence before assumptions.
We study how materials are made, used and renewed—so every design choice has a stronger foundation.
01 / Industrial / linear
We trace raw materials through processing, use and disposal. Identifying waste and emissions reveals where a design needs to change.
A building is part of a material system, not an isolated object. Our starting questions concern the origin of a component, the resources required to transform it, its journey to site and its eventual destination. We consider structure, envelope and finishes together, looking for opportunities to reduce unnecessary material, extend useful life and make future changes easier. The diagram makes the linear pathway visible: value enters the building, while waste and emissions leave the system. It is a framework for asking better questions, not proof of a measured environmental outcome.
02 / Industrial / circular
We prioritise maintenance, repair and reuse before recycling. Each loop retains value, but processing still needs resources and creates losses.
Circular thinking begins with the life of the building: how it can be looked after, adapted and renewed without discarding what still works. We ask whether connections can be accessed, parts replaced and spaces reorganised as needs change. The smaller loops represent keeping a component useful with less intervention; the larger loops return it through additional transformation. These are alternatives to investigate, not an automatic hierarchy for every project. Suitability depends on condition, safety, available expertise and a credible next use. Designing for another life requires a practical route, not simply the promise of recyclability.
03 / Biological / basic
We study renewable materials from sourcing and harvesting to decomposition. Carbon storage depends on how materials are grown, used and returned—not simply on choosing a natural material.
Renewability connects architecture to the territories that supply it. We ask how a resource is replenished, what its processing requires and how long it can remain useful in the conditions of a particular building. The biological cycle includes harvesting, manufacture, use and an appropriate return pathway; those stages cannot be separated from one another. A natural origin alone does not establish a low-impact specification. Treatments, transport, durability and the eventual recovery route all need consideration. The diagram helps us distinguish the possibility of renewal from the evidence required to make a responsible material choice.
04 / Biological / circular
We bring biological cycles and circular design together. We test sourcing, energy, useful life and end-of-life pathways to turn environmental ambition into informed design decisions.
Regenerative ambition asks us to connect the renewal of a resource with the continued usefulness of what has already been made. Maintenance, repair and reuse can sit within a biological system rather than waiting for a product to be discarded. We explore how material choices, assembly and the capacity for adaptation can support that longer relationship between a building and its environment. The nested loops describe possible routes, not a claim that losses disappear. Each proposal still needs a realistic account of sourcing, use and return, with uncertainties made explicit before environmental aspirations become project claims.
Sameem Tallat Residences ↗
Sameem Tallat Residences · 2025
At Sameem Tallat Residences, stepped terraces, louvers and gardens bring shade, privacy and outdoor life into a dense residential framework. The design explores how a building can behave more like a landscape, with room for daily life between inside and outside.
Rethinking Li ↗
Rethinking Li · 2024
Rethinking Li connects the historic centre to the river through civic spaces and a nature corridor. Its proposal brings community life, wooden housing and flood-adaptive landscapes into one framework. Local ways of gathering and living become a starting point for change, rather than something to replace.
The Study Canyon ↗
The Study Canyon · 2023
The Study Canyon explores a modular timber structure, prefabrication and shared learning spaces. Daylight, ecological landscaping and water retention are considered alongside flexibility and social connection. These are design strategies to investigate and refine, not a substitute for testing environmental performance.
03 / Our expertise
01 / Expertise
We shape the relationships that make a city: neighbourhoods, movement, public space and living systems. Urban strategy turns the possibilities of a place into a coherent framework for growth.
02 / Expertise
We turn complex briefs into clear architectural ideas. Use, climate, structure and place inform buildings with a distinct identity, generous spaces and a considered relationship to daily life.
03 / Expertise
We treat landscape as a living structure, not a finishing layer. Water, ground, planting and public life guide places that connect ecological processes with everyday use.
04 / Expertise
We connect places through more than movement. Bridges, routes and essential systems can also create civic space, frame the landscape and make everyday journeys more meaningful.
05 / Expertise
We shape architecture at the scale of daily life. Spatial sequence, light, materials and detail create interiors that are intuitive to use, distinctive in character and able to evolve.
04 / Awards & recognition
Architizer A+Awards · Winner
Architizer A+Awards · Winner
New European Bauhaus · EU Pavilion · Selected
The European Centre / The Chicago Athenaeum · Winner
Vilniaus vystymo kompanija · Other verified recognition
Roztoczański National Park / SARP · Other verified recognition
City of Ylöjärvi / Finnish Association of Architects SAFA · Other verified recognition
Kraków University of Economics / SARP Kraków · Other verified recognition
Climate-KIC / EIT Community · Selected
Ängelholms kommun / Sveriges Arkitekter · Winner
Municipality of Józefów · Other verified recognition
European Commission · New European Bauhaus · Winner
City of Kołobrzeg · Other verified recognition
