Only three years old, Cutwork is an award-winning architecture and design studio building new ways to live and work. Now, more than ever our use of the spaces we inhabit has fundamentally changed.
Cutwork designs innovative spaces, kit-housing, and furniture for companies who are similarly reimagining the future of how we live, work, and share. Drawing from a deep knowledge and expertise in coworking, coliving, innovation hubs, and next-generation hospitality experiences, the multinational and multi-disciplined team design smart, blended-use architectural and interior concepts that make it easy to constantly transform a space, build better communities, and encourage interactions. In 2018, Cutwork was included in the EIT Climate-KIC list of Europe’s top 30 CleanTech startups.
This year Cutwork became the youngest studio ever to win an influential FRAME Award – receiving Societal Innovation of the Year for its Flatmates project, the first large-scale coliving space in Paris. Designing the interior of 9 different apartment typologies, Cutwork delivered over 5000 pieces of furniture specifically tailored to the emerging needs of shared urban living.
For Flatmates, Cutwork developed a community-centered design concept interpreting three Japanese words for space: WA 和 – BA 場 – MA 間. As Antonin Yuji Maenon, Cutwork cofounder, and Partner Architect says; “In Japanese culture, space is not only defined by the relationships between objects and walls, but also by the interactions and relationships between people. Rather than having a single word for ‘space,’ there are many words for space, each with its own social intention. WA 和 is space for deep focus, introspection, and understanding of one’s self in relation to others. BA 場 is a space for collaboration, extroversion, and knowledge-sharing. MA 間 is space for the spontaneous and unexpected – the collision of people and ideas.”
To quote Maenon: “If the challenge of the 20th century was to build vertically, the challenge of the 21st century is to build more elastically.” Cutwork is a studio set to lead and transform this new way of visualising the urban future and shared architecture.
