ELIN HIRSCH STUDIO

The studio works with existing buildings through repair, reuse, adaptation, and transformation.

Responsibility and care shape the approach to working with existing buildings and environments. This involves carefully assessing what to keep in place, what to move, reuse, or replace, and what — and why — to rebuild or preserve.

The work is guided by resource-conscious strategies that make as much as possible from what already exists. Rather than treating preservation as a fixed position, the studio explores how buildings can be continued, adapted, and strengthened through careful interventions, including the integration of new, reused, and bio-based materials.

Particular attention is given to the relationship between human spatial experience and the built environment. Existing spatial qualities, atmospheres, materials, and traces are studied in order to understand what can be preserved, transformed, or carried forward.