What is trinity+one

trinity+one originated in 2004 as a networked community of architects and designers, for the purpose of collaboration on creative projects. The network started in london, but soon branched globally incorporating Europe, Africa and Australia. In time the scope became sharper and architecture emerged as the primary focus.

trinity+one architecture came into effect as the collaboration between Ruairi Molloy and Paul Mikatoa, in 2009. After working together on projects in Europe, Canada, USA and Australia, they formed a partnership and set up the architectural practise now known as trinty+one architecture. Soon after while working with structural engineer Derek Kinsella, they realised as a group there was more to gain through cross disclipelinary collaboration and so trinity+one as we now know it was formed.

The key to the success of trinity+one architecture is the organisational network from which it draws its expertise. The extensive knowledge and skill base enables us to create teams tailored to the job, be it strong documentation or highly advanced design skills. It allows us to create strong custom made teams which are project specific thus ensuring that the best people are working on your project.
At trinity+one we aim to provide innovative and syntactic solutions to design challenges. Irrespective of the size of the project the same attention to the design process will take place.

At trinity+one we have coined the term “essd”- environmental and social sustainable design. This pushes sustainability f rom a purely construction and environmental context into the realm of sociology. We believe that to make a design truly sustainable, it must also be sensitive in the larger framework of community, be it local, national or global.

Design Philosophy

At trinity+one we have a simple design philosophy. That is to provide creative design solutions for our client that responds to their brief.
The process we take with our projects starts with selection of people with the right skills for the job. Since one of the important aspects our design philosophy is creative collaboration this stage is crucial for us. We try to vary our design set by drawing upon the trinity+one network, that way we don’t always use the same set of techniques. This makes our designs more specific and unique.

Often many offices have an off the shelf design policy, whereby they take a similar or previous project they have done before and just try to make it fit on a new site. At trinity+one we don’t believe in this. We believe each project is different and requires a specific design.

We are a syntactical office, which basically means we use a lot of data in formulating our designs. This coupled with our advanced digital design skills allows us to manage / design / visualize our projects and
produce information for our clients and the rest of the design team with clarity.

We also offer our services in the form of building information modeling (bim) 3d, standard computer aided drawing (cad) 2d and advanced parametric modeling. It is with this advance skill set that we can offer a very comprehensive service to our clients.

With all these skill sets aside, our basic mantra is to provide our clients with a creative design solution which responds to the client’s needs and requirements, with a reaction to the site and the environment.

E(S)SD

trinity+one has coined what we refer to as ESSD. For those of you familiar with esd (environmental sustainable design), we are just taking the next step. For us esd is obvious and essential, what is missing
and so often overlooked by other designers is the social agenda.

Hence ESSD (environmental and socially sustainable design)

So what are we talking about ?

Basically with all of our designs, we look at the impact of the project not just on the environment, but we also look to see what the impact is socially, whether that is on a local, national or global scale. We also take the opposite and see what impact these surrounding influences have on out projects. We find this is key is true
sustainability.

Many practises will sell themselves on the environmental properties of their design approach and their process ..... at trinity+one we see this as a given, to us this is the easy part, where we see the fundamental gaps is design today is how buildings affect people outside the site.

We have seen too often how this is ignored, and how bad the consequences can be in the aftermath. So as part of our practise beliefs, we are happy to advise our clients as to the best design proposal we think is right, whether that involves building something, or not building anything at all !