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The STÅ Kollective put people first. We are sensitive to the connection between people and the places they inhabit. Skilled in Architecture, Urban Design, Planning, Landscape, Culture, and Placemaking, we seek to make good habitat for humans.We care about our places and the place you inhabit and will work with you if we think we can create good habitat for humans together. We believe that the connection between people and the place is essential to a healthy, sustainable community. We strive to create spaces that are both beautiful and functional, and that reflect the unique character of each community. The work we do is guided by our values, which are: to put people first, create places and buildings that work for the people who use them, respect culture and character, and bring delight to everyday life. We love people, language, culture, and place.
With an office in Sydney and long-standing connections in London, Dublin, and Helsinki, we can work together to make Place.In Australia, we stand on the land of the Eora, Kuring-gai, Awabukal, the Dharug and others, whose languages connected the people and the land they inhabit, their Country, and it always has been and always will be.
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Stå (stoow)- to stand. In the past, we marked our landscape and denoted place by standing a vertical element in the landscape. The standing stones in the landscape became meeting places for 'things' or community assemblies. In old English, a 'thing' meeting place was called a thingstōw. The uniting of form, people, and event makes a place and gives it an identity.From sta the Proto-Indo-European, to stand, to set down, or to make firm, or be firm, or a place or object standing. Sta is related to the old English stead, meaning a place, position, or stability, and related to the German Stadt, a town or city.
The old English stow is a place or a locality and appears in many placenames (Briggstow - Bristol, Padstow).It appears to be a human condition to mark a place by standing vertical elements in the landscape. These are often a counter-point to the horizontal of the landscape to mark a place, a meeting point, or a boundary. The phenomenon of the human experience of the world with our senses of vision, smell, and taste facing front frame our interaction with our physical environment and place. Our relationship with the landscape is shaped by our history, language, and culture. Our human experience of the world is coloured by our language and changes with time. In the past, we had a rich vocabulary to identify and denote our landscape, but as our focus changed, so too did our language. Presently, technology shapes our perception of the world and influences our culture, language, social context, and relationship to landscape, buildings, and place.Check out our blog for more:
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