OBSERVATION: 

Experience will replace accumulation

Supportive action will replace consumptive action

Deeper connection will replace distraction.

Concurrently, the present and future needs of our communities, individuals, businesses, and cultural entities are changing rapidly.

Re:Fab is driven by a philosophy based on the belief that buildings are to be consciously created to fulfill our deep desire for beauty, inspiration, peace, wellness, creativity, productivity, and abundance.

Re:Fab believes that form follows fiction:

As such, the collaborative process of building creation follows a unique and broad narrative drawn from observation and information of and from the building user, site, community, culture, and commerce.

As buildings currently represent a significant demand on our energy and environmental resources, it is a fundamental responsibility of Re:Fab to provide the offsetting sustainability requirements as inextricably intertwined with a new building’s ‘DNA’.

PROVOKE INNOVATION:

A productivity crisis exists:

Productivity in design and building is declining while increasing in sectors such as computing technology, renewable energy, auto making, and aerospace.

An affordability crisis exists:

Rising construction costs outpace our general economy, thus denying more individuals, businesses, and cultural institutions of quality and ownership.

Crisis is an opportunity or provocation for innovation.

Thus Re:Fab is driven to improve productivity of design and construction and address escalating costs and decline of quality in an ethical and aesthetically moving manner.

Through the consideration of innovation and well considered opportunities, both ‘product based’ and ‘client based’ design-build will serve responsibly with restraint and elegance.

METHODOLOGY:

Design cannot disassociate with how buildings are made;

Thus production thinking enters into the design thinking process.

Through the immersion in the reinvention of the practice and language of building design and delivery, Re:Fab delivers more beautiful, functional, and sustainable buildings more quickly at much higher value, quality, and with less waste by implementing:

1. A visualization process that employs manual and digital conceptualization and follows with digital methods throughout to include fabrication.

2. The development and incorporation of a refined design and building language that utilizes new integrated building elements and assemblies, offsite prefabrication, and site assembly, all while maintaining creative customization.

3. A constantly improving supply chain that identifies or creates new building elements and fabrication resources.

4. A conscious recruitment of and collaboration with like minded clients, owners, buyers, tenants, designers, consultants, system providers, and fabricators.