Vision

Horizontal perspectives. Vertical ambitions.

Thomas Allocca

Horizontal Perspectives

D E S I G N   P R I N C I P L E S

The Soul  |  Any project is aimed at creating solutions of harmony between architcture and its people, between people and the genius loci. Harmony as the spiritual language of the materic solutions.

The Materia  |  Wood is the main material, the materic core of every project, conceived as a continuation of the forest life cycle, not its interruption. Wood as the noble enbodiment of this spiritual language.

The evolution from Homo Sapiens to Homo Architectus was possible thanks to forests. In forests, architecture was born. To forests, it must return.

Thomas Allocca

Vertical Ambitions

T R E E - C E N T R I C   A R C H I T E C T U R E   A N D   H O M O   A R B O R E U S

The United Nations recognizes that quality of life is mainly affected by air, water, food, and architecture, and that the best strategies for sustainable development and resilient towns come from wood-based economic and technological systems. This means that wooden architecture can play an extraordinary role in improving the quality of life.

White Oak Arkitecture was established to contribute to these goals, as a promoter and developer of projects that are not simply made of wood but represent a much-needed evolution of wooden architecture towards a more systemic "tree-centric" vision, blending function and symbolism, for the evolution of its architects from Homo Sapiens to Homo Arboreus.