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Welcome to The Collab+Project!

If you're reading this, the site is still under construction. But still, please feel free to browse it. It would be also really nice to hear from you too. Anyway, I put this to try making a blog post. This is my first time doing one, though I already published many websites just for fun. I really don't know what to put in it. but I'm pretty sure you're still reading this. Right? Okay, cool. I like you already, Curious and Patient, like us: C+P. (See what I did there?) I'm thinking of utilizing this as a means to connect with you (yeah, so original but heck I'm gonna say it) and share some stories about our concepts, projects, insights, things that interest us, some ideas and opinions, (Yeah pretty much what is in a blog post: things about us) But I think the main intention of this is to really involve people with architecture, bridging the gap of architecture to the people through information.

Anyway, where are my manners, we're The Collab+Project, a "collaborative project" (no way!) planted from the idea of creating architectural designs that are really co-invented by the client and the architect. You may scratch your head and ask, "Why state the obvious? shouldn't they be really involved in the project? They're the clients!" Yeah. Well, This sprouted from the idea that people are now accessible to many ideas (Pinterest for general room ideas, and Houzz for residential spaces, and many more sites to look for) and wishes to execute such ideas by themselves. And more often than not, some people create buildings or spaces that lack the appropriate architectural solutions to a problem. Rooms without natural light and ventilation, areas of a building that do not have definite spatial character or scale, or spaces that lack the image or spirit of a certain place. (Lots can be said, but you get the point: no architect, very bad.) The Architect's role to society should be the guiding hand in creating such spaces and structures. They should be committed to creating a place where the identity of the people are magnified in it. They must use their tools and expertise to create places like a painter creates art with its canvas. We all know humans are biologically inclined to create their own structures and spaces that they personally use: places they see everyday, areas where they work and spaces that become their part of living. This is what became the turning point of our civilization and the human race, the ability for a human to perceive and build places and spaces out of his mind. So it is all the more a challenge for the architects to show how important it is to consider this factor in the design.

The Collab+Project at its main core desires to bridge the gap between architecture and society. Or more so, remove the "gap" and make it an irrefutable choice that the "Architect" designs the structure made for the "People", through designing with the "People". Which means to say, "Client + Architect = Design"

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