drooopi is an architecture office rethinking where and how we live.
drooopi offers architectural services for projects of all types, scales, and budgets: houses and housing; restaurant, retail, and brand experiences; arts centers; installations; and more. Our approach is grounded in finding dogmatically rational solutions that challenge presumptions, expressed with a refined and playful aesthetic sensibility.
drooopi is technically a cheeky acronym for “Davis Richardson Office of Objects, Projects, and Images,” meaning we design and make drawings of architecture and related things. drooopi as a name implies the reconsideration of preconceived notions: a building that droops is typically considered to be failing. What opportunities are there for defying conventional wisdom that could produce better buildings, more interesting spaces?
drooopi is led by Davis Richardson, a licensed architect in New York and Texas.
Contact us for potential projects or media inquiries:
daviswrichardson@gmail.com
builds off a previous iteration of the Austin Energy Green Building Program in a much more speculative way; it meets the space and square footage desires, but it asks the questions: how is the future of sustainable architecture made? And what can it feel like? How can we challenge how we expect buildings to present themselves? It must not only be sustainable, creating more energy than it uses, but it should also be dynamic, vast, and maybe even confusing.
The building is at odds with its context, simply asking the question: are we capable of more? Of something unfamiliar? The space within, even the entrance to the building itself is withdrawn. The shell of the building is amorphous, and being pushed and prodded, influenced by what’s happening inside while simultaneously obscuring it and influencing it recursively.
