With a multi-disciplinary approach to complex design issues, OM has gained extensive experience in large-scale urban design and master planning, urban renewal and city planning redevelopments and public space design. The practice offers technical assistance to national and local government agencies and municipalities as well as private sector to prepare strategic, urban structure and development plans. We bring together a broad spectrum of strategies, talents and disciplines to focus on the total experience of people in the places we design.
OM focuses on community based planning initiatives to formulate detailed land-use and development plans in urban and sensitive ecological environments integrating urban planning and economic development, tourism, infrastructure planning and development, traffic management and implementation, zoning, as well as land use analysis.
Architectural designs range from housing, education and care to public and utility buildings and mixed-use programs. OM develops concepts and visions that address sustainability, urbanization and infrastructure. OM is connected to various urban research programs.
DESIGN PROCESSOM represents an integrated working methodology based on a multidisciplinary and simultaneous engagement in themes, program, typology and context. This allows for a variety of approaches, creates intensity and cross-cutting in the design process and forms the base for scenario development and testing.
As an objective, OM aims to develop clear and vivid solutions and ethical responses to social, economic and pragmatic aspects.
Being part of a tradition that fosters identity, we understand the need for creating symbols and spaces of representation in the production of cities. We envision design to respond to pragmatic demands such as program, population growth, traffic congestion and to reinforce the culture to which they belong. OM adds and expresses new features in the city and actively creates new and attractive built environments.
CITYCities are the breeding grounds of economic growth and innovation. Intensive interaction, in its turn, leads to innovative activities. Thinking in open, strategic and stimulating frameworks and with an emphasis on vibrant public realm is central to all of our planning projects.
As urban planners we ought to design sustainable, smart ‘breeding grounds’ where existing and novel structures and programs, some still unknown to us, might flourish and interweave. Urban design as the coordinator of the collective should obtain a degree of neutrality. Urban design is about creating conditions for freedom. This combination of freedom while retaining specific rules warrants control over the development, form and execution of a project. Within this process OM assumes a leadership role and acts based on a comprehensive understanding, linking architecture and urban planning as integral disciplines.
