WHY BANAL?

Studio (n.)

/ˈstjuː.di.əʊ/

“work-room” from Italian studio “room for study,” from Latin studium [study (v.), “to strive toward, devote oneself to, cultivate, to show zeal” ]


Banal (a.)

/bəˈnɑːl/

originally relating to feudal service, “compulsory,” “common to all,”   from English bannan [ ban (n.), “summon by a public proclamation” ]

studio banal aims

to cultivate the commonplace

to reinterpret the predictable

to show zeal for the ordinary

kyriacos christofides

creative director

is a trained architect, researcher and environmental designer. In 2023 he founded Studio Banal, a spatial design practice based in Larnaca, Cyprus, after having worked on various studios in the United Kingdom and Italy, with experience in architecture, curatorial research, exhibition design and environmental studies. Kyriacos graduated from the University of Bath with a Bachelor of Architecture (2014-2018) and completed his Masters in Architecture at the Royal College of Art (2018-2020). In 2018 he qualified as a Certified Passive-House Designer. 

 

He has worked on a variety of projects which include the renovation of the Listed II building for King’s College Medical School – STEC (London, UK), the Land Audit Study for Barking Industrial Site Masterplan (Barking, UK), the Cheltenham Ladies College extension design for Oxford University (Oxford, UK), the masterplan and urban design of St Helier (Jersey, UK), the renovation of the Uppingham Boarding School (Uppingham, UK), the masterplan of Holborn area (London, UK), the masterplan of the mixed-use commercial complex of G-Land (Bangkok, Thailand), the exhibition design for Collezione Henraux 1960-1970 Exhibition at Gallerie d’Italia, Piazza Scala (Milano, Italy), the interior fit-out for the GLOBUS department Store (St. Gallen, Switzerland) and the renovation of the 18th century of the Palazzina dei Principi at Museo Capodimonte (Naples, Italy), amongst others. 

 

Kyriacos’ work was featured in symposiums, exhibitions and academic lectures including the Media Studies Course in RCA (London, UK), the online conference “Repositioning Architecture in the Digital” organised and hosted by the Jaap Bakema Study Centre, TuDelft and the Het Nieuwe Instituut, (Rotterdam, The Netherlands), the book “I, like Many Things”; a written publication by the Yale School of Architecture (New Haven, USA), the Dixit 02: A Matter of Data published by Éditions Cosa Mentale (Paris, France) and the 2nd edition of Larnaca Biennale under the thematic of “Limitless Limits”  (Larnaca, Cyprus).

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