Kotono Watanabe's Contact Details

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Alchemy Architects, home of the weeHouse®

Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States • 5 Employees
Design

Alchemy's distinct hands-on approach to architecture and design combines a playful design process, collaborative relationships with clients and partnerships with builders and fabricators to create a harmonious blend of site, building and community. With sustainable practices as a mainstay of its daily work, Alchemy utilizes recycling and reuse along with building strategies that reduce waste. The multidisciplinary team draws inspiration from art, literature, history and leading creative thinkers to create alternative and atypical project solutions.Alchemy's innovation on the weeHouse prefab system and "tightwad panache" renovations has gained recognition on an international scale.While Alchemy is known internationally for the design of the weeHouse®, a large portion of Alchemy's business is more traditional architectural design services including new builds, commercial projects, remodels, renovations and general design consultation.Alchemy's completion of the first weeHouse in 2003, then just an inexpensive prefab cabin, gained international attention as a symbol of architectural optimism. Since then, Alchemy has widened its scope, developing the weeHouse as a prefabricated answer for cabins, houses, offices, rooftop studios and multi-unit developments. Alchemy has completed dozens prefabricated projects around the United States and continues to work on new ideas for sustainable builds.