ABOUT
Founded in 2017, FRAGMENT architecture is a design firm with two office locations in Oak Brook and Willowbrook, Illinois. It is committed to delivering architecture of high sensitivity to spatial experience with attention to profound integrity with place context. It delivers designs that embody the interdisciplinary quality of architecture to bring the users a subtle, yet profound experience of space and function. The firm`s portfolio was awarded the “portfolio of the day” title on Portfoliobox for June.22.2017.
METHODOLOGY
Our firms` name ‘FRAGMENT” was inspired by the writings of theorist Dalibor Vesley, an architectural historian and theories, whose perception of architectural work is phenomenology-based capitalizing on the collective power of architectural elements and program as a whole not as individual pieces. FRAGMENT architecture is mainly driven by research as it always strives to find the inspiration from the context of any given project to complete as well as mediate the existing settings of site, and thus a positive fragment in the process of architectural compositions. The firm`s studio, lead by Enis Aldallal, AIA, considers that architects have a critical mission of blurring the boundaries between the project`s site and its milieu. The Zeitgeist of place is the core concept of our projects to bring the building its rooted existence. This sensitivity is supported with a holistic design approach that gives all site`s components equal significance, stronger ties, and more sustainability within their existing environment.
SERVICES
FRAGMENT architecture provides complete line of full design services for architecture, interior architecture and planning for various building typologies. From conception to construction administration, FRAGMENT architecture services cover new construction, addition, adaptive reuse, and renovation projects. FA also provides landscape design services believing that architecture and landscape architecture cannot be separately designed and constructed.
PEOPLE
Enis Aldallal. AIA
Enis is the founder of FRAGMENT architecture and is a licensed architect in the State of Illinois. He is a writer architect who has educationally trained at the Illinois institute of Technology and the University of Liverpool, UK. Enis`s practical experience dates back to 2001 upon graduation with a Bachelor in Architecture from AlBaath University. His methodology toward design is a keen process that profoundly engages the context with the project`s programmatic elements while embracing high sensitivity to materiality and sustainability. Having been born in the oldest, inhabited city in the world, HAMA / Syria, Enis`s passion to architecture is as much profound as the historical layers of his home town.
He brings over 20 years of experience nationally and internationally where he worked for renowned architectural firms in the middle east and the USA. Before establishing FRAGMENT architecture, Enis has lead various types of projects ranging from small scale to large scale projects with Chicago-based firms like CannonDesign/Chicago, SOM/Chicago, and SMNG-A/Chicago.
Enis`s burgeoning philosophies in architectural design have elucidated in his published book in Europe and the Americas titled as Site and Composition: Design Strategies in Architecture and Urbanism. Enis continues pushing the boundaries of his interest in urban interventions and uniquely implementing his design approach on each design assignment.