EDWARD CO TAN + ARCHITECTS

Since its establishment in 2003, our company Edward Co Tan +

Architects continues to provide quality and outstanding service to its clients.
Our services consist of architecture, master planning, and interior design. We
offer services that emphasize value space planning and value engineering—
an approach of such importance that we deem to be much more economical
whilst maintaining the quality and structural integrity.

The company comprises of architects, interior designers, and

professionals committed to our client’s architectural concerns and needs.
Guided by effectiveness and efficiency in all its designs through three major
aspects: construction cost, space planning, and sustainable operation.

Over the years, we have designed a number of buildings of different

typologies from low-rise to high-rise residential buildings, boutique hotels,
resorts, island development, office buildings, shopping malls, restaurants,
and residential homes.
 In the years 2018, 2017, 2012-2015, and 2005, BCI Asia has awarded the
company as one of the Top 10 architectural firms in the Philippines. And in
2012, a sealed partnership with an architectural firm based on the United
States, Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (SOM), for an office building project in
Bonifacio Global City, “The Curve”.

And as one of the awarded firms in the Architecture

business, we maintain an excellent and personalized client
relationship and practices with consideration of all the
aspects of design and construction.
What drives this is the commitment to our philosophy, Structure as
Architecture. We believe in the efficiency of looking into the details—from
cost, design and structural concerns—making our entire process the core of
our Architecture.
Presently, we at Edward Co Tan + Architects maintain its excellence in
architecture and design with our vigorous commitment to making
economical landmarks that move, inspire and influence our society.
 Structure, in its most familiar definition, is any element that carries—may
it be its own or externally generated load. Although this thought denies
structure of its possible architectural and decorative role, indicating a
separation of architectural and structural intent, form, and meaning. Rather
than viewing structure as purely utilitarian, we at ECT+A try to further
develop the role of structure to architecture.
We practice this idea by looking into structure as a multifunctional
architectural element, and how it also dictates, manipulates, controls
and influences people and the space around it. Driven by the progressing
demands on space especially in high-density areas, our firm believes in these
three key factors centered around efficiency: space planning,
construction cost, and operational cost.
And in order to fully realize the opportunities of structure, we emphasize
on value space planning and value engineering, and design with the
attention to detail on not just the area, but also on volume. This manifests in
the way we utilize the use of load-bearing walls that we call Interactive
Wall System.
 But of course, no philosophy, discipline, or attitude, dictates what’s the
preferable application to create an exemplary piece of architecture. We see
this as a challenge by presenting this structural system, that when taken into
a local context is more economical and effective than the current building
trends.
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