Altforma is an emerging design-focused architecture firm creating personalized places that are functional and who’s beauty is informed by Vancouver’s unique coastal setting and its diverse traditions.
We are driven by a passion to enhance the way we live with buildings and places that support resilient connections to our surroundings and to the people near us. Our experience and private commissioned work has included private residences, multiplexes, multi-residential, commercial works, renovations, and urban design.
Collaborating closely with you, we work with the project team taking complex problems and simplifying them with bold solutions and humane design. In each project we seek to uncover the contextual dynamics that lead to valuable solutions. This can range from having deeply connected conversations with you, our client, to introducing simple design moves that generate a real impact. We believe it’s these values that led to the firm’s recognition in our multi-unit residential proposal in Vancouver’s Urbanarium awards. Recently, as families and individuals are facing an increasingly unaffordable housing market multi-generational and collective housing has been a growing thread in the office.
