Ten Studio
(Switzerland/Serbia)TEN is an architecture, design and research association working on the principle that value is an outcome of design effort. Its engagement on public themes of interest and open research on the built environment is shaped by its common statute.
TEN is composed as a record label, providing new formats for interdependent work groups with emphasis on design by research. It aims to conceive, explore and produce ideas that both state and expand upon emerging practices in the built environment. Its focus lies on producing new realities by means of building prototypes, urban propositions, algorithmic design, and materials research with a range of collaborators, colleagues, institutional partners and private clients. TEN is currently focused on developing models for affordable living with particular focus on cohabitation, reuse and design of capable structures.
TEN is a Swiss Art Award (Architecture 2018) and Foundation Award (2020) laureate. Its members are regularly invited and awarded for their contributions to swiss and international design competitions. The work of its members has been published and presented across numerous digital and printed platforms, magazines and academic journals.
TEN has most recently been nominated for the Debut Award at Trienal de Aquitectura de Lisboa 2025, Royal Academy Dorfman Prize 2024, the Mies van der Rohe Award 2022 for its prototype Avala House and the World Bank Resilient Housing Award for its construction model for the redevelopment of the Thame Valley, Nepal.
Try again. Fail again. Fail better
Becoming Embodied
A 7-Day Walk Through Design Discovery : a workshop on design as continuous discovery to address societal and environmental challenges — where architecture becomes a force of good and architects are able to imagine a new reality. With experts that will support us and intertwining AI prototyping and physical making and play, we explore how experimentation becomes creation, how limitation becomes choice, and how design learns, transforms, and ultimately shares its discoveries with others while shifting the idea of what is possible. We will address material scarcity, comfort and norm, housing crisis and public infrastructure as our fields of work that will create desirable models for some of the sustainable issues we face today as society.
This laboratory for investigation of architecture unfolds as a seven-day journey through experimentation, reflection, and transformation in architecture. Each day marks a step that turns process into insight and decision into desirable form.
Wish & Collect: Begin by observing, collecting, and framing desires.
Dream & Try: Translate intuition into action and ideas without fear of failure. Start to make.
Shock & Resist: Challenge assumptions. Break, distort, and question frictions.
Reflect & Adapt: Step back, re-read the work, and adjust transformation.
Prototype & Play: Create, test, and improvise, search.
Construct & Play: Architecture becomes visible
Share & Publicize: Don’t end, share and rather start again.
