They won the prize for Co-Living in the Countryside – a concept drawn up with support from Quality of Life Foundation providing a development model for
AJ 40 under 40: NOOMA
16 December 2020 By Fran Williams, illustration by Simon Hayes
The Tottenham-based AJ 40 under 40 practice says it is founded on diversity and has a ‘co-creation methodology’. It is currently developing a construction block made from recycled waste
Formed by 36-year-old director Ramsey Yassa only last year, Tottenham-based NOOMA’s members are from ‘non-traditional backgrounds’, which, they say, make up ‘London’s cultural mosaic’.
The studio states that it is ‘founded on diversity’ and its ‘collaboration co-creation methodology is our way of making things happen’. The nine-strong collective of architects, community builders and ‘experience designers’ have backgrounds in a range of practices such as aLL Design, HOK, MVRDV, Kengo Kuma and Associates and Heatherwick Studio. Their educational backgrounds include the CASS (particularly Robert Mull’s Free Unit) and the Bartlett.