About us
Vision
Demonstrating that designing the remarkable and the sustainable are indisputably one and the same.
After over 20 years of working on global, high-end luxury developments with clients from the developers of the Mandarin Oriental in Bodrum to Mon Choisy in Mauritius, I decided that I needed a new challenge, a way to push myself and my industry a bit further.
I created Studio Wild 15 to provide me the freedom to pursue my craft with two core principles at the heart of every project. I want to integrate my passion for bringing a new level of sustainability to the fields of master planning and landscape architecture with the opportunity to hand-pick world-class collaborators from an exceptionally diverse and unusual range of skill-sets.
Sustainability
We all know the environmental trajectory we’re on. We urgently need to look at every development through a lens of sustainability. Right now within the industry there are huge areas of opportunity to be better, be smarter and more thoughtful. That’s what really drives my approach and the results.
I fundamentally believe that a sustainable mindset and approach creates developments that are not only cheaper to operate but are more viable and attractive for people to enjoy and purchase.
Conversely, if we don’t take these issues into greater account now then everything we do feels very short term and can carry huge potential risk.
Collaboration
It’s essential to have the right people on the project at the right time. Each project is different, and so is every group. With the plan in place I can then determine the skills and expertise required. The people I bring together are comfortable to contribute and brainstorm in each other’s areas, leading to fantastic ideas that cut across disciplines rather than in traditional siloes. They are also engaged and driven by the same shared vision around working sustainably.
I’m not afraid to experiment either with the types of collaborators. I’ve worked with artists and mental health experts, economists and soundscape experts. You can’t innovate without experimentation and I love the freedom setting up my own studio has given me to create such an exciting and talented network.
It goes beyond just ideas and design, this way of working, of being collaborative and managing all the core project fundamentals. Knowing how finance and feasibility, design and strategy impact one another, along with development economics, cycles and phasing, by looking at these core elements holistically, you can ensure everything is geared to a successful outcome.
It’s still very rare to see people working on a project where you’re looking down both ends of the telescope at the same time. I’ll look at the macro, at the same time someone is thinking at a very intimate scale. That sort of simultaneous approachto design scares a lot of practitioners, but it makes our product unmatchable, and makes us a genuine studio.