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“From Know-How to Do-How” turns traditional skills into real action in Liepāja’s historic neighbourhoods. Beyond restoring buildings and details, we restore a sense of belonging — to the house, the neighbourhood and the city. Through hands-on workshops, international residency and community events, participants learn to restore wooden architecture, revive courtyards and create sustainable gardens, turning neglected spaces into vibrant places and strengthening heritage care and local community.

For over 20 years we worked to improve the position of açaí pickers in the value chain. Our projects resulted in 1st purpose-built safety kit for açaí pickers, addressing the critical need for protection. Developed with pickers in the Amazon forest in Brazil, in cooperation with a research&design team, our kit supports sustainable açaí collection while transforming safety standards. There are around 300,000 açaí pickers. The global açaí market value was US$1.61 billion in 2025.

Our project, “Supported Living”, is a pioneering initiative in the Torchyn community (Ukraine) that transforms social care from isolated institutional walls into warm, family-like homes. We have renovated and fully equipped five houses to provide high-quality, accessible living for 25 elderly internally displaced persons and people with disabilities, ensuring they truly feel at home rather than in an institution.

Founded in 2023, the company develops and leases modular, relocatable timber buildings to provide temporary housing and community spaces on vacant urban sites. It manages projects end-to-end, ensuring dismantling and reuse across multiple cycles. Built to high architecural and environmental standards (RE2028), the approach combines sustainability, circularity and social impact, involving researchers, architects and future users from the design stage.

Handzy is a digital marketplace connecting independent artisans with modern consumers through handmade products and curated gift boxes. The platform supports local creators, promotes cultural heritage and encourages sustainable production by making unique handcrafted goods accessible to a wider audience. Handzy helps small makers grow their businesses while strengthening creative communities and responsible consumption.

PROSPER Art Tour app is a digital explorer app that reveals site-specific contemporary artworks placed within historic landscapes. Starting in the Old Town of Ohrid, the app invites users to discover art through walking routes, stories, and interactive maps, creating new dialogues between contemporary creativity and cultural heritage while encouraging sustainable exploration of place.

Werkraum Zuhaus extends an existing carpentry and workshop ensemble in the Bavarian countryside, adding a dedicated building for the practice's interior architecture branch. The project introduces new office spaces, gardens, and terraces — and one room held deliberately open, a spatial reserve for future uses the company has not yet defined, available equally to internal development and external engagement The building is an act of closeness. Timber was sourced directly from the surrounding lan

Citadel Diest transforms a military fort into a vibrant urban commons — home to entrepreneurs, associations, and citizens alike. Since 2024, this citizen-led cooperative has activated 8,000 m² of heritage space through circular, community-driven renovation, hosting 29 resident organisations, 144 events and 12,000+ visitors. Born from years of grassroots community building, it proves that participatory, cooperative urban reactivation is faster and more resilient than top-down development.

Pirita is a circular cohousing in Madrid where 11 families co-designed their homes using FSC-certified cross-laminated timber structure, achieving near-zero carbon emissions. It blends modernity with tradition — Passivhaus design, solar energy and water recycling alongside Alicantine blinds, corralas and biophilia through living greenery at every level. Communal spaces for coworking, gardening and gathering make it a replicable model of affordable, beautiful and climate-resilient living.

The Zalau Administrative Palace was built in 1970. The renovation project modernized and made the following components of the building more energy efficient: exterior insulation, glazing, roof, HVAC installations, electrical installations and automation. Additionally, solar panels and photovoltaic panels were installed. The architectural appearance of the building was preserved.