Dark concrete brutalist mass against a storm sky
Dark concrete brutalist mass against a storm sky

Architecture shaped by context, material and human experience.

Tashkent — Rome — Lisbon

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Architecture shaped by context, material and human experience.

Tashkent — Rome — Lisbon

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VOLUM — Architecture, research and building

VOLUM creates architecture shaped by context, material and the way people inhabit space.

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Approach

We design from the ground the building will stand on, and from the life it will hold.

We design from the ground the building will stand on, and from the life it will hold.

Every project begins with a long look at what is already there — the climate, the street, the way people already move. What we add is measured against that, not against a style.

Context

The site, its climate and its history are the first brief.

Culture

How a place is already used before we add to it.

Material

Chosen for how it ages, not how it photographs.

Human experience

The sequence a person moves through, room by room.

Areas of expertise

Five ways of working, one method.

Five ways of working, one method.

We work across scales, from a single room to a district plan. The method does not change — only the size of the ground we read.

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Architecture

Buildings from first sketch to site supervision, detailed to outlive the brief that produced them.

VOLUM area of expertise
VOLUM area of expertise
VOLUM area of expertise
VOLUM area of expertise

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Masterplanning

Districts organised around shade, walking distance and the streets people already use.

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Interior Design

Interiors developed with the building, not applied to it — the same materials, carried inside.

VOLUM area of expertise
VOLUM area of expertise
VOLUM area of expertise
VOLUM area of expertise

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Landscape

Ground, water and planting treated as structure rather than as decoration around a building.

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Urban Design

Public space at the scale where a city is actually experienced: the block and the crossing.

VOLUM area of expertise
VOLUM area of expertise

The studio

We shape space into purpose.

We shape space into purpose.

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Founded in Tashkent in 2019, VOLUM works between Central Asia and Europe on buildings, districts and interiors that are meant to be inherited rather than replaced.

VOLUM project exterior, wide view
VOLUM project exterior, wide view

A note from VOLUM

Architecture shaped by context.

Architecture shaped by context.

We are not interested in a house style. We are interested in what a particular piece of ground, a particular climate and a particular client make necessary — and in drawing that as precisely as we can.

Vertical study of a concrete facade

Practice

2019

2019

Founded in Tashkent

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04

Countries building

16

16

Awards and citations

48

48

Projects delivered

Contact

Start a conversation about your project.

Begin a project intake

Whether it is a house, a museum or a district, we begin the same way — by reading the site and listening to how you intend to live in it.

VOLUM architectural project

Contact

Start a conversation about your project.

Begin a project intake

Whether it is a house, a museum or a district, we begin the same way — by reading the site and listening to how you intend to live in it.

VOLUM architectural project

Contact

Start a conversation about your project.

Begin a project intake

Whether it is a house, a museum or a district, we begin the same way — by reading the site and listening to how you intend to live in it.

VOLUM architectural project

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