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Intersection of disciplines create an exploration of relationships, individuality and architectural.

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“ERM is an interdisciplinary design office based in Brussels.

EvaRaffaella Menga is the founder of the architectural firm ERM and CC, the collective consultancy.
With her Italian and German roots, EvaRaffaella has an international focus that formed the interdisciplinary woman she is today. After her studies, she discovered that her interdisciplinaire work cannot be included in one job description. With her diplomas in interior design on an architectural scale, management in innovation and chef EvaRaffaella established her architectural office and the consultancy CC – Common Connection. In this she succeeds keeping passions for architecture, design consult and food close. CC is her connective haven. An interdisciplinary intersection. The in between. Between architecture and design,
between Italy and Germany, between design and food, between customer and people and her life’s work.

Her academic career continues in lecturing design and architecture at KUL Brussels and UDK Berlin.

Her collaborations with Sigurd Larsen and David Chipperfield, among others Architects in Berlin led to bridging opportunities in the domestic and abroad.

Project-wise one of her proudest and most ultimately interdisciplinary architecture is located on the outskirts of Ghent. The design simulates one multi-purpose copywriting office for owners Katrien and Tom van Stille Bliksem.
The master plan is divided equally into office and gallery space, where meetings result in events and the gallery houses an ‘artist in residence’ unit on the second floor.

With this versatile unique item, designed in collaboration with Atelier Detail, EvaRaffaella Menga emphasizes her career: “Simplicity is complexity resolved”.

To respect the existing architecture and landscape. To find, read, interpret and implement the essence of the site transforming materialization and form. These materials are then made as close as possible maintain their originality.

That simplicity also lies in the collaboration with the customers, EvaRaffaella meets and selects its customers in an atypical way. After a first coffee meeting, she invites them to her home for a dinner, prepared by herself.
“You get to know people at the table on a deeper level. You feel a different transparancy than around one
conference table. An attitude that is authentic, more open and more personal. The characteristics of the customer, with her wishes and requirements, are immediately revealed and leveled on the office philosophy.”

Written by Charlotte Tavernier


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ERM architects presents proudly the co-created research of all our clients, Chipperfield architects ‘ Das Neue Museum‘, Sigurd Larsen architects, A+ Horizontal Metropolis with Paola Viganò, Bénédicte Grosjean, Géry Leloutre and Chiara Cavalieri in coproduction with
BOZAR Brussels.
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