About
Michael Zambo AIA ACHA
Principal
My goal is to design in such a way that every person who interacts with a building or a space is satisfied—a patient, a doctor, a student, an owner.
I respect architectural design that gets someone to react, stimulates an emotion, reaches someone. It should wake people up in some fashion, should be alive enough to get your attention—that, I believe, is the designer’s responsibility.
As I design, I ask myself questions. What did I give back? What did I do for the end users to enhance their experiences? Just because the standards might say a room is a certain size, did we live it to verify it? We have to live it to see it, to be able to say, “I’d be comfortable in that building, that space.”
Why is this the right light? The right color? The right transparency on that window? Why choose dark versus light wood? These decisions should be deliberate, not arbitrary. The solution might not be obvious, but we keep searching until we find it. That’s what leads to great design.
