About UH Studio

UH Studio is an architecture and design practice led by Dimitar Pouchnikov. We work with private clients, developers and architectural teams on buildings, interiors, façades and bespoke elements.

Our approach connects a strong architectural idea with careful attention to how a place is experienced and how it will be made.

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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 the way the facade reflects onto the street? Giving each project a unique sense of place, of both belonging and standing out when needed generated a unique vision for each project.

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 is the binding glue that helps deliver beautiful projects. We use the latest technological innovations to produce higher quality design more efficiently. We fully embrace technological design developments that allow us to produce better visions for our clients.

Team

Dimitar Pouchnikov AIA

Dimitar Pouchnikov is an architect, design consultant and educator, and founder of UH Studio and UH Studio Design Academy. His international experience includes work at HOK, Adjaye Associates and AHMM in London, across buildings, cultural and sports venues, and masterplans. Educated at the Architectural Association in London and Temple University in Philadelphia, he connects architectural ideas with the careful development of spaces, façades and bespoke elements.

Architecture and the wider city

Dimitar’s experience extends beyond individual buildings to masterplanning, urban design and the relationship between architecture and the wider city. He considers how built form, landscape, movement and public space combine to create coherent places, with particular attention to the spaces between buildings and their contribution to everyday life.

His process brings together sketching, computational design, physical prototyping and dialogue with clients and manufacturers, with careful attention to space, light, materials and everyday experience.

Professional Experience

Much of Dimitar’s professional career developed in London, where he worked at HOK, Adjaye Associates and AHMM. At HOK, he spent more than seven years as a project designer, contributing to international projects across residential and mixed-use developments, cultural venues, sports and entertainment facilities, urban design and high-rise buildings. This experience informs his ability to work across scales, navigate complex briefs and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.

Teaching and public presentations

Dimitar teaches architectural and computational design through UH Studio Design Academy, technical workshops and collaborations with architectural education platforms. His international presentations include the Blender Conference in Amsterdam, Everything Procedural in the Netherlands and BlenderFES in Japan.

His teaching connects design judgement with practical digital workflows, helping architects explore ideas and develop the information needed to realise them.

Education

Dimitar holds a postgraduate Master of Architecture from the Architectural Association’s Design Research Laboratory in London and a five-year professional Bachelor of Architecture from Temple University in Philadelphia. His education and practice on both sides of the Atlantic inform a design approach that combines experimentation, sensitivity to context and practical judgement.

For investors

Understand the possibilities before committing to a direction. We work with developers, investors and project teams on architectural feasibility, masterplanning, concept design and design development, connecting a site’s potential with its wider urban context.

Concept Design

Produce breathaking design with visualisations and the numbers to both raise money and possibility 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

Compare site constraints, massing, layouts and indicative areas before choosing a direction. Studies can range from an initial site appraisal to development options and a preferred scheme. Scope and consultant inputs are agreed at the outset; cost and market assumptions are reviewed with your appointed specialists.

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 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

Developing a site means shaping part of a larger place. We connect buildings with landscape, movement and public space, considering access, active ground floors, neighbourhood connections and the spaces between buildings.

Design Impact Analysis

Review how a proposal contributes to its surroundings: pedestrian and cycle routes, arrival, public and private edges, ground-floor activity, landscape and connections to the wider neighbourhood.

Design

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

    • Mid-rise buildings

    • Single family homes

    • Multi-unit and multi-building residential developments

  • Mixed-use

    • Developments with strong integration and separation of office, retail, residential, and hospitality, including complete servicing strategies

    • 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

    • Cultural and 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

  • Project Architecture and Design lead of all design stages

    • Concept Design

    • Design Development

    • Construction Design

  • Interior and Product Design

    • Highly bespoke and unit product and interior elements including consultations for manufacturing

  • Parametric Design

    • We create highly tuned parametric models that allow easy and efficient adjustments of the project's design parameters, without the work to redo everything

    • Speed up design process

    • More effective and efficient documentation

  • Feasibility studies

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

  • Complex Facades design services with parametric and BIM implementation

  • High-quality design presentations and reports

  • Renderings, animations, and VR

    • We provide high-quality renderings for your projects

    • VR 360° images to use with Oculus and other VR headsets that enable clients to "feel" what is like to be inside the space

  • BIM Design

    • Revit and IFC compliant design

    • Complex geometry translation from Rhino to Revit / IFC

  • 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 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

Academy & Bespoke Training

Blender–Rhino Workflow Consultation

A focused consultation for architects and design teams who want a clearer route from concept models to developed geometry and useful project outputs.

We review one agreed project or workflow, identify where modelling, transfers or revisions become difficult, and recommend a practical sequence of tools and handoffs. The consultation includes a working session and a concise action plan. File preparation, modelling support and team workshops can be scoped separately.

Discuss a workflow consultation →

Bespoke team training

Project-based workshops in Blender, Rhino, Grasshopper and computational design, shaped around your team’s experience and current challenges. We agree the learning objectives, format and fee before beginning.

For individual courses and self-paced learning, visit UH Studio Design Academy →

UH Studio

We are an architecture and design studio, passionate about beautiful design, improving cities, and education.

UH Studio Design Academy

Courses on architectural design, rendering, graphics, modeling, and more with Blender, Rhino, Geometry Nodes, Grasshopper, Affinity Photo, Affinity Design, Affinity Publisher, and Freecad

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