How it works
See the project. Find the product. Meet the studio.
Archtivy connects architecture projects to the studios that designed them, the products specified inside, and the brands that make those. You can begin at any point and keep going.
The path
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Start with a project
A house in Antwerp, a café in Riyadh, an office fit-out. Photographs, location, year, and the studio credited with it.
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Meet the studio
Open the practice behind it and see the rest of their work — not a single entry, a body of work you can move through.
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Find what is in the room
Where products have been credited, they appear with the project. Open the photograph and explore pieces that suit the space, or click an object to find ones like it.
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Reach the brand
Every product leads to the brand that makes it, and to the other spaces their work has been specified into.
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Keep going
From that brand to another project, another studio, another material. There is no last page.
Two kinds of connection
Credited. Someone who worked on the project said this product is in it. That is a statement of fact and it is presented as one.
Visually similar. Open a project photograph and the panel beside it suggests pieces that suit the space; click an object and it narrows to things like that object. These are suggestions based on how things look — useful for finding a direction, not a claim about what was specified.
The two are never mixed. A credited product is labelled as used in the project; a suggestion never carries that label, whatever the resemblance.
It matters because specification is a professional decision. Guessing at it and presenting the guess as a credit would make the whole record worth less.
What you keep
Save a project or a product to a board — one for a scheme you are developing, one for lighting you keep returning to. Follow the studios and brands whose decisions interest you, and their new work reaches you.
Your homepage draws on that: what you follow, what you save, where you are. It becomes more relevant the more you use it, and it never asks you to describe your taste in a form. Discovery outside your established interests stays in the mix deliberately.
For architects and design studios
A project on a portfolio site is a dead end by design — it shows the work and stops. On Archtivy a project sits inside the network that produced it: the products specified, the brands behind them, the materials, the city.
That gives your work more than one way in. Someone looking for a particular lamp can arrive at your project through it. Someone reading about a brand can find the space where their work was used.
- Present projects in the context of what is actually in them.
- Credit the studios, engineers and photographers you worked with, and be credited in return.
- Let a body of work be discoverable as a whole, not one entry at a time.
- Keep a professional profile that other people can reach from any project.
For design brands
A catalogue shows a product against a white background. It cannot show the thing a specifier actually wants to see: the product in a room, at that scale, next to those materials, chosen by a studio whose judgement they trust.
Show where your products live. On Archtivy a product carries the projects it has been specified into, and each of those leads back to the space and the studio.
- Products shown in the projects they were specified into.
- A brand profile reachable from every one of those products.
- Discovery by category, material and typology, not only by product name.
- Visibility inside real spaces rather than beside them.
Adding your work
Publishing a project takes a title, a location, images and the credits. Crediting the products inside it is what connects the project to the brands and to everyone searching by product — it is optional, and it is the part that does the work.
Brands publish products with their category, materials and dimensions. As studios credit them, each product accumulates the projects it appears in.
Start with a project.
Follow it to the studio, the products inside it, and the brands behind those.