Minimal Standard Information

A working archive of proven spaces as a catalog of customizable and combinable elements coordinated with a catalog of concepts for new construction homes. Working from the question what if we didn’t design anything new? Minimal Standard is an evolution of the legal term minimum standard which determines the threshold at which the quality of a particular space is acceptable, adequate, or compliant. Minimal Standard works in the space directly above or around this threshold to raise standards of living while balancing the competing demands of cost, use, efficiency, maintenance, scarcity, abundance, consumption, re-use, economy, and materiality. Minimal Standard is also focused on leveraging technology to produce innovations in the built environment. Software and automation are integral tools in the practice, along with a deep research practice developing an archive of references and proven applications in the architecture space.