Exploring how the intersection between a sense of place, wellbeing, & technology can produce exceptional environments

Place. What gives a project an identity? Is it how the new house, building, or extension is well nestled within the neighbourhood? Or perhaps the way that the morning sun shimmers through the kitchen window? Each location has unique characteristics that should always be thoroughly considered in both practical and in sense-appeal manner.

Wellbeing. The places we occupy have a significant impact on our wellness and productivity. Designing spaces that can cater to our sense of wellbeing can help us feel replenished, and to work and play better, adding significant value to all parties involved design & construction.

Technology, if used appropriately, it is the binding glue that helps deliver beautiful projects. When considered, in relation to place and wellbeing, tech can be utilised as a design tool, as construction and building processes, as IOT in smart homes and offices, as something in between, or as a brand new glue, capable of keeping a rocket to Mars intact on its way there (or your building).

We offer unique solutions for different parties. Explore solutions for:

• Investors

• For private Clients

• For professionals - architects, landscape architects, urban designers,

• For cities, civic, and urban design

For investors

We provide various packages from feasibility studies to complete conceptual designs in order to understand and market your design investment.

Concept Design

Produce breathaking design with visualisations and the numbers to both raise money and possiblity sell to potential end-clients

Design Development and Coordination

Realise your design and investment visions with us on board that can drive the design strategy while holistically understanding cost impacts, coordinating with local architecture team, and engineering consultants.

Feasibility Studies

Understand whether your investment is sound in what is possible to output

We can produce digital experiences that allow you, your potential investor partners, and end clients and wider and further in-depth experience of your project

Digital, VR, & interactive visualisation experiences

For private clients

We are the perfect partner to realise your visions for homes, extensions, apartments, buildings, and other spaces

Visualisations and VR experiences

Fully understand the impact of possible design directions by experiencing your space with Visualisations and immersive VR. With VR technologies, it feels like you are inside of the space, feeling the scale, proportions, and finishes, as they will be.

Design Development and Coordination

Realise your design and investment visions with us on board that can drive the design strategy while holistically understanding cost impacts, coordinating with local architecture team, and engineering consultants.

Concept Design

Have an idea that you want to explore? We can provide you with conceptual design with multiple options including Bill of Materials in order to understand how your design ideas might come to realisations

For businesses

Does your business need a new purpose-built space or refurbishment that increases the efficiency of your business?

Concept and design development

Understand what your development might look like and asses the impact and cost associated with it. We produce reports for gatherting feedback from you take it onboard to further revise design proposals.

Visualisations

We offer what your business needs might look like, which allows seamless communication to all stakeholders.

Evaluation and brief development

We sit with you to clearly understand your needs and offer design solutions that improve your business

For architects, landscape architects, and urban design

For professional colleagues, we offer efficient computational and parametric design, BIM and 3d Modeling

BIM and 3D Design

Need assistance with modeling a BIM project? Complex facade? Parametric Urban Design Solution? Complex landscape architecture? We can assist your team with a fully compliant BIM model delivered either as IFC or Revit. Furthermore, we have extensive 3d modeling experience at delivering small and large complex project that, coupled with parametric design, can give you the results you need.

Design Direction

Our global experience and the fact that we have worked with many of the most common architectural typologies gives us a unique view on any size of project. We can assist your team by fulfilling your design vision with all the necessary design steps to get there. We can either consult or guide your team of handle design parts of the design within our team and deliver to you the files, designs, and documentation you need to get your project over the line and on time.

Parametric Design

Working with a complex project? Unsure if your internal team and succeed on time and budget? We collaborate frequently with other professionals and produce parmetric design solutions for pavilions, buildings, urban design, and landscape architecture.

Digital and VR Experiences

We provide virtual and digital experiences that allow all involved parties to understand your project to a deeper detail

For cities, civic design, and urban design

Excellent design impacts all users. We are an excellent partner to understand and assist with design impact of urban and civic solutions

Design Impact Analysis

Thinkg your urban solution is the right one? We can asses design impact from urban experience of how design is approached

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Realise your design and investment visions with us on board that can drive the design strategy while holistically understanding cost impacts, coordinating with local architecture team, and engineering consultants.

Concept Design

How might a boulevard work with wider pedestrian area and reduced vehicle area? We can provide design, documentation, and illustrations for civic design adjustments.

Typologies

• Residential

  • New masterplans

  • Single family homes and extensions

  • Mid-rise buildings and masterplans

• Mixed-use

  • Developments with strong integration and separation of office, retail, residential, and hospitality

  • Hotels, Resorts, and Hospitality

  • Office buildings and retail

  • High-rise towers

• Cultural and entertainment

  • Optimal sightlines experience and BOH operations understanding, which are both key to having successful venues

  • Theatres and auditoriums

  • Sports arenas

  • Museums and galleries

  • Event spaces

    • permanent

    • pop-up

• Urban Design & landscape

  • Masterplans

  • Urban design strategies

  • Urban parks

  • Landscape architecture strategies

Full Design Services List

UH Studio has extensive experience in understanding complex and mixed use briefs. We can work across multiple typologies and provide you services that help get to your end goal. We work well with investors who are looking to improve the value they offer to their customers by providing bespoke, high-quality solutions that are efficient to build. We have experience working on projects in the UK, Europe, US, Middle East, and Africa.

Services

• Parametric Design

  • We create parametric models that allow easy and efficient adjustments of the project's design parameters

  • Speed up your design process

  • More effective and efficient documentation

• High-quality design presentations and reports

• Renderings, animations, and VR

  • We provide high-quality renderings for your projects

• BIM design

  • Revit and IFC compliant design

• Feasibility studies

  • Detailed research of potential architectural solutions including design options, and associated BIM data (areas, schedules, and more)

• Brief analysis and development

• Business plans

  • Extensive experience of developing business plans with investor partners for architectural solutions

• Design consultations

  • Useful to get a second opinion on design direction

  • Considerations for design direction

  • Alignment with investing strategies

• Project Architecture and Design lead of all design stages

  • Concept Design

  • Design Development

  • Construction Design

• Complex Facades design services with parametric and BIM implementation

• Project management and Design coordination with engineers and suppliers

What our clients and collaborators think of us

Discover what our clients think about our service

Dimitar is a creative mind who excels in architecture and design. He embraces new technologies to find better ways to communicate design and is a team player. If you thought you knew the best way to do a process in architectural design, I guarantee Dimitar will find a different way which will expand your mind.

David Weatherhead

Dimitar combines architectural and computer skills to offer innovative approaches to projects. If you’re doing a new design or a renovation, regardless of where you are in the world, I highly recommend exploring how you can work with him. Even if you have a local architect, builder or contractor, having Dimitar on your team gives you a creative partner to explore your dream solution.

C Leon Smythe, Denver CO

Client for private residential projects. View Denver project

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Senior Design Principal at HOK, London

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Academy & Bespoke Training

We Believe technology can positively aid the design and construction processes, by making them more efficient, effective, and with lessmanual adjustments. Today's project require extensive design and documentation revisions. With the right technological solutions, the processes can become significantly more efficient. Rhino, Grasshopper, and Blender are key computational design tools that are now well established to aide design studios.

With extensive experience in design tools, UH Studio offers bespoke solutions to get you or your team ready for the next important and challenging project with Parametric Design. We frequently collaborate with other Design Teaching organisations and have led multiple bespoke workshops. If you have a specific topic, workflow, or challenge in mind that you think we may be able to assist you with, we would be happy if you reach out to us.

Team

Dimitar Pouchnikov AIA

Dimitar a US architect who with most of his work experience in London. His design sensibility is shaped by his experiences on both sides of the Atlantic, combining British contextual sensitivity with American pragmatism.

Dimitar is a designer and educator, having worked on large projects throughout the world, combining computational design knowledge to create architecturally significant places. In his daily practice, he explores how open-source digital tools can democratize and further advance design processes to create better environments to live, work, learn, and play. Linkedin

Design Philosophy

Dimitar is interested in design philosophy rooted at the intersection of design, a sense of place, and technology. This allows him to constantly explore experimental workflows to enable new forms of design, yet remain committed to the architectural impact. In fact, Dimitar is just as happy working through designs with pencil and sketch paper as he is designing with the latest computational tools. All tools are means to ultimately generate great, thoughtful, contextual, and considered design. Dimitar knows about delivery on tough projects and he always commits completely to the given project to produce the best possible outcome.

Professional Experience

Dimitar has previously worked for over 7 years as a project designer at HOK in London on leading international projects, across many typologies and frequently on projects that fall into multiple ones – mixed use, cultural, sports + entertainment, urban design, and supertall buildings. Prior to HOK, Dimitar has worked at Adjaye Associates and AHMM in London.

Teaching and presentation experience

Dimitar has been invited to sit on multiple crits in the US and the UK. Furthermore, Dimitar has held keynote presenations and multiple international events such as the Blender Conference in Amsterdam, Everything Procedural at Breda Applied Arts University in the Netherlands, BlenderFES in Japan and many others in London. He also teaches technical workshops looking at how architects can better utilise digital technology for concept design and design production. He currently focuses most on teaching through UH studio’s Youtube channel.

Dimitar also collaborates with some of the leading architectural education platforms including:
Parametric Architecture PA Academy, Futurly, MEAL liveacademy.tv, Dezact, and others.

Education

Dimitar holds a postgraduate M.Arch degree from the Architectural Association (AA School), Design Research Lab Programme (DRL) and a 5 year professional B.Arch degree from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, in Philadelphia. He has additionally been WELL AP accredited and has done numerous business and personal development workshops.

Dimitar believes that education never stops and he constantly looks for ways to improve his skills so he can deliver the best design results possible. He has completed numerous computational design workshops that allow him to work efficiently and creatively.