Architecture with Identity

Aidentity is a London-based international architectural practice founded in 2011 by the architect Aiden Nikpour. Aidentity is currently working on a range of prestigious international projects including an office complex and few residential complex in in London and Dubai. Aiden Nikpour and his colleagues at Aidentity have extensive experience of projects with diverse functions for both the public and private sector, and of working internationally. Aidentity has a wealth of knowledge and perspectives of urban and architectural problems, and the agility required to work within different cultures.

 

Three main principles guide Aidentity’s work:

 

Function
Aidentity believes that since the relationships between each building function and individuals are articulated through the actuality of built forms or their physical presence, the agency of architects lies in how they assemble the physical elements of that built form so as to reframe the conventional relations between individuals and that function, to inspire them to engage with it in new ways.

 

Materiality
Architecture is a material practice, not a matter-practice. Architectural materials include the non-physical and physical attributes that define the built environment: politics, climate, time, construction technologies and economics as well as wood, glass and steel. Aidentity treats these materials as extrinsic and intrinsic parameters that generate the assembly of each of its built forms, avoiding form for the sake of form alone.

 

Architecture
Aidentity regards architecture as an integral part of everyday life and an active agent in shaping culture. The dynamic nature of culture requires that buildings have an in-built sense of order, a consistency against which we can test our experience. Aidentity’s work generates these internal orders in built forms by each time assembling them in such a way as to construct a unique transversal organization across the complex array of relevant materials. Each Aidentity project accordingly has a singular physical presence with a new sense of order relative to the multifarious materials that relate to it and it shapes people’s experience of everyday life in unique ways.