FAR has a fascination with design and building tools as testimonies of collective ingenuity, cultural identity, and individual associations of hand and mind. In embodying conventions and innovation in their conception and form, they intimate a rule of art as tied to the task at hand as to the understanding their user has of it. To become instruments, tools require vision, adaptation and commitment.
In principle, FAR directs its research focus onto the following areas:
- analysis of building industrial landscapes;
- articulation of product and process innovation dynamics in construction;
- development of building policy directions and initiatives;
- preparation of construction briefs;
- assessment of as-built design;
- development of strategic building systems;
- identification of and response to technological gaps.