Introduction Urban Systems Office is an architectural practice that employs innovative computational methodologies to deliver architectural and urban design solutions. Through maintaining collaborative links with leading academic institutions, Urban Systems pursues a rigorous research agenda and constantly searches to advance the ways by which we recognize, interpret and redefine the quality of our built environments. Research and Design Our research methods incorporate generative design strategies, developing a digital workflow based on rule sets which are informed by the characteristics and challenges of each individual project. Applicable to a wide range of project scales and sites, this methodology allows for the generation of highly adapted and site specific outcomes, producing informed design solutions that can be constructed within given limitations such as budget and time. Our expertise is based around the advancement of existing design communication work-flows and construction scenarios through the critical and strategic use of digitally aided design methodologies. Setting up open-ended and collaborative communication protocols, we build transparent, individual and unique design processes that capture the intelligence and underlying logics of materiality, organisation and spatial performance. Methodology: Generative Design We pursue a rigorous research agenda focused on innovative digital design methods and building construction technologies, supported by our teaching at several international academic institutions including the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Included in this research is a strong expertise in the integration of environmental performance parameters into the conceptual design process for building and urban planning projects. Our methodologies allow our designs to achieve the highest sustainability classifications including LEED certification. Our research also includes a strong interest in contemporary urbanism in Asia. Having worked on several projects in various cities, we have experienced rapid urban development first hand. We have organised academic visits in collaboration with several high profile universities in China, Japan, Europe and the Middle East. Our project design methodologies integrate the latest research in advanced generative design technologies within the context of realistic challenges and opportunities of each new project brief. Our design process is informed by rigorous research into the specificities of the project’s context, brief and site, and executed using a set of customised digital tools. Integrated Design through Collaboration Urban Systems collaborates with established consultants and local design institutes to deliver highly evolved, performative, and sophisticated architecture and masterplanning projects. We seek a close relationship with our partners from the early stages of each design process, to integrate detailed information about the constraints and opportunities within each project into our work. We employ architects that are registered with the Architects Registration Board (ARB) and Royal Institute of Architects (RIBA), as well as several highly specialised professionals experienced in computational design, Building Information Modeling, environmental design and construction. Urban Systems works by the standards of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in setting up clear working guidelines, time schedules, tasks and sets of deliverables and understands the need for the tailoring of the process to the specific requirements of each client. Current and Past Collaborations: ARUP, London Bollinger and Grohmann, Frankfurt Buro Happold, Beijing Changsha Planning and Design Institute, Changsha IPPR, Beijing NOUS Engineering, London / Los Angeles Relational Urbanism, London Tsinghua University, Beijing Chongqing University Chinese University of Hong Kong South China University of Technology, Guangzhou Hunan University of Technology, Changsha Henan University, Kaifeng German University in Cairo University of Kuwait Qatar University American University of Sharjah Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar Tokyo University Pratt Institue, New York Architectural Association, London Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London Delft University of Technology Urban Systems Office for Generative Architecture Office Profile Partners Team Jobs Projects Research Contact EN / 中文 Urban Systems Office is a London based architectural practice that employs innovative computational methodologies to deliver architectural and urban design solutions. (c) 2021 Urban Systems Office - London. All materials are copyrighted - copying, distributing or publication without written permission is prohibited.