Why we started with a handle
Before the projects, the portfolios and the studio pages, there is one question a platform for architects has to answer: what is your address?
Every architect we spoke to had the same scattered inventory: a PDF portfolio on a hard drive, a few projects on one platform, photographs on another, and a personal site last updated three years ago. The work exists. The address does not.
An address, not a profile
A profile is something you fill in on someone else’s platform. An address is somewhere people can go. We wanted spacescaping.co/yourname to behave like the second: stable, yours, and capable of holding everything you make rather than a single summary of it.
A project carries the perspective of the people who made it. A public identity should keep that visible.
From the manifesto
One namespace for people and practices
A studio is a handle too. Drawing people and practices from the same namespace means one claim flow, one uniqueness rule, and no migration when a person incorporates or a practice changes its name. It also means handles are genuinely scarce, which is why we opened claiming before we opened accounts.
- Your projects, each with a page as long as the project needs.
- Portfolios published as documents people can read end to end.
- Writing and research kept beside the work it belongs to.
The workspace where all of that is made is a separate place, behind a login. What you publish is a deliberate act, never a side effect of working.