Design guest homes for an organic winery in Italy

We’d like to take the opportunity to introduce you to the 2nd prize winner of our "Timber Pavilion" competition – Matteo Fraticelli, Motomi Morii and Martin Lee from United States!
2nd prize winners from United States
We are a group of architects and designers with wide-ranging experiences on international projects. The founding partners have collaborated on projects including residential, commercial fit-outs and tall buildings in New York City and abroad for over 15 years.
F R O M has worked on various design typologies and scales, including residential and commercial projects located in both the United States and Europe. Our design approach starts with a thorough investigation of the given project’s site and surrounding historical context, influencing a thoughtful selection of materials, and building techniques. This culminates in a well-balanced combination of unique forms, details, and materials. In doing so, our goal consistently remains to apply this method in such a way that is thoughtful to both architecture as a cultural medium, and the surrounding context in which it is located.
We consider architecture as a discipline capable of combining various fields of technical expertise with thoughtful, artistic forms – with the end goal to create a more stimulating built environment. Architecture’s inevitable junction at various social and public realms gives itself a broad, yet distinct responsibility to society. By studying and analyzing historical precedents, while also having an acute understanding of current construction techniques and materials, we believe it is possible to create new environments that better serve society for the future while also being harmoniously existent in the present.
Through such actions, an architect needs to be sensible in interpreting and listening to their contexts and users’ needs. They must create design solutions that simultaneously optimize both the given program and occupants’ experience, while efficiently using project resources. Thus, creating a subtly distinct form of architecture that tailors to both the surrounding contexts and its users through both form and function.
We participate in architecture competitions as they provide a positive environment to further develop architectural research while stimulating creativity to produce experimental, yet adequate design solutions.
The advice to competition participants Challenge the obvious, be creative and push the boundaries…and in the end, have fun with it!
Design guest homes for an organic winery in Italy
Design a picturesque painters' residence
Design a sustainable artists residence in honor of Antoni Gaudi
Design a movie pavilion set in the stunning scenery of northern Iceland
Design meditation cabins to help Tokyo citizens destress and reconnect
Design a structure that would function as a source of education on past events or a method of raising awareness of ongoing injustices
Present your best work and submit your favorite architectural visualization
Design a new concept of small-scale home
Design a pavilion to exhibit rammed earth as a building material
Design affordable housing in Las Vegas
Use architecture to create different emotional states
Share your views on architecture competitions
Design THE architect's t-shirt!