Founded in 2003, Archi-Union Architects is a Shanghai-based architectural design firm providing solutions to architectural problems through a combination of academic research and practice,specializing in architecture, urban planning and interior design. Archi-Union has more than 60 people in the office and has finished more than 20 projects in the past decade.
Archi-Union has managed to introduce a design style that is an amalgam of the global trends and the local traditional architectural approach. From this stems the low-tech digital fabrication method ‘Digital Tectonics’ which merges the concepts of tectonic construction and ecologythat are catalyzed through a parametric design process, in essence combining digital technology and craftsmanship.