Architecture · Spatial Design · Natural Materials
Architecture built with natural materials. Designed for the way you actually live, work and recover.
We design residential, commercial and hospitality spaces that
improve focus, reduce stress, and support well-being by using natural, healthy materials and a deep understanding of how environments affect people’s lifestyle.
We design residential, commercial and hospitality spaces that
improve focus, reduce stress, and support well-being - using natural, healthy materials and a deep understanding of how environments affect people’s lifestyle.
Most homes, offices and venues look good on paper. Very few are designed for the person (or the business) that has to live inside them.
Most architecture is optimised for aesthetics and budget. Very little of it is shaped by who you are, how you actually use the space, and your well-being. Materials get picked for cost. Layouts get pulled from a template. Your needs are not even in the picture. No, not just the extra storage, but rather your mental and physical health, and your performance. The space looks fine on day one and quietly works against the people inside it for the next thirty years.
If you've considered building or renovating sustainably before, you may have been told it costs more, demands more care, or only suggests a certain "eco" style. None of that is the full picture.
Let us show you how your space can truly work for you.
Who We Build For
01 — Homes & Families
02 — Progressive Companies & Workplaces
03 — Hospitality & Wellness Spaces
04 — Athletes & High Performer
01/ Homes & Families
If you're here, you've probably already figured out that life quality matters to you. You care about your health, your sleep, the way your family actually lives. You care about what your kids breathe. You care about the planet they'll inherit. You desire a home that's built around you, from materials your body wants to live with.
What we design for: long-term wellbeing, calm nervous systems, indoor air your kids can grow up in, and layouts that hold up across stages of life rather than locking you into the one you're in now.
02/ Progressive Companies & Workplaces
You're running a company you'd actually want to work for. Sustainability, circularity, employee care, and the way the office signals your values aren't side projects. They're how you compete for talent. Corporate benefits are dead. Culture, environment, and the building people walk into every morning are not. People want to spend their day in places that feel good to be in.
What we design for: workplaces that reflect the company's values back to the people inside, lower the long-term carbon and operating footprint, and feel like somewhere people actually want to be. Healthy buildings make for healthier teams, and healthier teams perform.
03/ Hospitality & Wellness Spaces
Cafés, restaurants, small hotels, retreats, yoga and pilates studios. Guests come for the food, the room, the class, the stay. But what they remember is how it made them feel. Light. Acoustics. Air. The texture of the materials. The aftertaste of the visit. Aesthetics get them through the door once. Atmosphere is what brings them back.
What we design for: spaces that are memorable in the body. Not just on social media. Healthier indoor air, considered acoustics, natural materials, and an environment that does the marketing for you. So guests come back and they tell people why.
04/ Athletes & High Performers
You train hard. You recover seriously. You already know your environment is part of the protocol. Sleep quality, air quality, light exposure, acoustic load, the materials around you when you're trying to cool down after a session. All these factors either supports performance or quietly hinders it. This is a salutogenic approach: design that builds health and capacity, instead of draining it.
What we design for: deep sleep, clean air, circadian-aware lighting, low sensory load. The room is part of recovery. Marco's own background as a former competitive athlete is part of why this gets read into a project the way it does.
A note on scale
We're a small, focused studio by design.
We're not chasing the biggest projects. We're chasing the right ones: homes, offices, hospitality and recovery spaces where the brief is taken seriously, the people are part of it, and the result is built around them, not around a portfolio shot. If that sounds like the kind of project you're carrying, we're probably a good fit.
Why Space Matters
The spaces we inhabit shape how we feel, think, recover, and connect. Light affects our circadian rhythm, acoustics influence stress and concentration, and natural materials regulate humidity, stabilize temperature, and improve air quality. Every design decision has a measurable impact on well-being. This is why at Edge Creatives Studio we design with the user in mind, guided by neuroarchitecture, environmental psychology, and healthy building principles to create calm, restorative, and intuitive spaces.
Materials are central to this approach. Clay, lime, timber, and plant-based insulation are not just sustainable choices, but active elements of a healthy indoor climate. They regulate moisture, improve acoustics, and create warm, tactile surfaces while remaining low in emissions. The result is a softer, quieter, and more balanced spatial experience.
Good design goes beyond function. It shapes movement, comfort, focus, and emotion within a space, while also considering its impact on the environment. Bio-based materials like timber, hemp, and straw can store carbon and support regenerative systems.
That's the difference we design for.
Our Core Pillars
Every project starts in the same way: listening. Before we discuss materials or floor plans, we want to understand how you use your space, what isn't working, and what you're hoping to feel when you walk through the door.
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Every project begins with one question: “How should this space make people feel?”
Whether we design a home, workplace, café, hotel, or wellness space, we focus on the people who will use it every day.
Through thoughtful layouts, natural light, healthy materials, and acoustic comfort, we create environments that support focus, relaxation, connection, and well-being.
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Materials do more than define the look of a space—they shape how it feels and performs.
We use natural materials such as clay, lime, timber, hemp, and straw because they improve indoor air quality, regulate humidity, enhance acoustics, and create warm, tactile environments.
At the same time, they are renewable, low in embodied carbon, and often capable of storing CO₂.
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Great design balances creativity with knowledge.
Our approach combines architecture, neuroscience, environmental psychology, and building science to create spaces that are both beautiful and measurable in their impact.
By considering people, materials, and systems as one interconnected whole, we design environments that support human health while respecting the planet.
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Our process is mostly remote, so location isn't a barrier - for us or for you.
For full-scale projects, we partner with skilled local contractors and travel to the site when the project calls for it.
Fun Facts
A wooden house isn't loud. The right detailing reaches the highest acoustic standards. Most failures with natural construction come from one thing — a lack of knowledge of the details and the materials themselves. In hands that know them, the same materials match or beat conventional ones on every standard that matters.
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Sustainable doesn't always mean more expensive. Several natural materials cost the same or less than conventional ones. They sometimes need a different application method, but the long-term picture — health, durability, energy use — usually comes out ahead.
Those with sensitivities react more strongly to the quality of indoor air. Synthetic materials — think new carpet, particleboard furniture, vinyl flooring, fresh paint — slowly release chemicals into the air for weeks or months after you bring them home. That's called off-gassing, and it's the source of a lot of "new furniture smell." Add in stuffy air and harsh lighting, and the people most sensitive notice it first and feel it worst. The better the materials, the more room everyone has to breathe easy.
Some of the oldest standing buildings on earth are made of clay, stone and timber. Done well, natural construction outlasts most modern equivalents.
Bright white rooms and harsh lighting have been used as a form of interrogation. Constant overstimulation through the eyes wears the nervous system down — the body can't regulate against it. The reverse is also true. Calm proportion, soft daylight and natural materials measurably lower stress.
We spend about 90% of our lives in a built environment. The space around you is never neutral. It's working on you constantly — mostly without you noticing.
A natural-material home doesn't have to overheat in summer. The right combination of insulation, thermal mass, and ventilation handles heat better than most conventional homes.
Fun Facts
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We spend about 90% of our lives in a built environment. The space around you is never neutral. It's working on you constantly — mostly without you noticing.
A natural-material home doesn't have to overheat in summer. The right combination of insulation, thermal mass, and ventilation handles heat better than most conventional homes.
Sustainable doesn't always mean more expensive. Several natural materials cost the same or less than conventional ones. They sometimes need a different application method, but the long-term picture — health, durability, energy use — usually comes out ahead.
Those with sensitivities react more strongly to the quality of indoor air. Synthetic materials — think new carpet, particleboard furniture, vinyl flooring, fresh paint — slowly release chemicals into the air for weeks or months after you bring them home. That's called off-gassing, and it's the source of a lot of "new furniture smell." Add in stuffy air and harsh lighting, and the people most sensitive notice it first and feel it worst. The better the materials, the more room everyone has to breathe easy.
Some of the oldest standing buildings on earth are made of clay, stone and timber. Done well, natural construction outlasts most modern equivalents.
A wooden house isn't loud. The right detailing reaches the highest acoustic standards. Most failures with natural construction come from one thing — a lack of knowledge of the details and the materials themselves. In hands that know them, the same materials match or beat conventional ones on every standard that matters.
Bright white rooms and harsh lighting have been used as a form of interrogation. Constant overstimulation through the eyes wears the nervous system down — the body can't regulate against it. The reverse is also true. Calm proportion, soft daylight and natural materials measurably lower stress.
Fun Facts
A wooden house isn't loud. The right detailing reaches the highest acoustic standards. Most failures with natural construction come from one thing — a lack of knowledge of the details and the materials themselves. In hands that know them, the same materials match or beat conventional ones on every standard that matters.
Drag the movable cards out to read more
Sustainable doesn't always mean more expensive. Several natural materials cost the same or less than conventional ones. They sometimes need a different application method, but the long-term picture — health, durability, energy use — usually comes out ahead.
Those with sensitivities react more strongly to the quality of indoor air. Synthetic materials — think new carpet, particleboard furniture, vinyl flooring, fresh paint — slowly release chemicals into the air for weeks or months after you bring them home. That's called off-gassing, and it's the source of a lot of "new furniture smell." Add in stuffy air and harsh lighting, and the people most sensitive notice it first and feel it worst. The better the materials, the more room everyone has to breathe easy.
Some of the oldest standing buildings on earth are made of clay, stone and timber. Done well, natural construction outlasts most modern equivalents.
Bright white rooms and harsh lighting have been used as a form of interrogation. Constant overstimulation through the eyes wears the nervous system down — the body can't regulate against it. The reverse is also true. Calm proportion, soft daylight and natural materials measurably lower stress.
We spend about 90% of our lives in a built environment. The space around you is never neutral. It's working on you constantly — mostly without you noticing.
A natural-material home doesn't have to overheat in summer. The right combination of insulation, thermal mass, and ventilation handles heat better than most conventional homes.
Work With Us
Services We Offer
01. Full Architecture Build
02. Floor Plan Optimisation
01. Full Architecture Build
For Homes, Commercial or Hospitality. We offer New Builds, Full Renovations and Spatial Designs: from first concept to final finish.
Full-service projects include everything: from the initial spatial concept and floor plan through to material selection, 3D visualization, coordination with contractors, and on-site implementation where necessary.
We work with homes, offices, coworking spaces, hospitality projects, and specialized environments such as sports recovery and wellness facilities. Every project is unique.
The process is thorough, collaborative, and tailored entirely to your specific goals, not a one-size-fits-all solution.
02. Floor Plan Optimisation
For homeowners, renovators, small business owners, and anyone who wants to be sure before committing.
Sometimes you don't need a full project. You need a trained eye on your floor plan, telling you what's working, what isn't, and what the space could become.
Floor plan optimisation is delivered entirely remotely and independently, without geographic limits. You receive an optimised plan, material guidance, and a written concept, walked through in a one-on-one video consultation.
It's the way most of our full-project clients begin. Not because we ask them to, but because the clarity it gives makes everything that follows easier.
About us
Edge Creatives Studio
Edge Creatives Studio was founded by Marco Gietzen — an architect specialising in natural, circular materials, and the relationship between space and human wellbeing.
Marco trained and practised in Germany and is a licensed member of the Rhineland-Palatinate Chamber of Architects. He's also a certified sustainability coordinator, which means he measures the environmental impact across the whole life of a building, from sourcing to end of life, not just at the end.
"Good architecture is more than just a roof over your head. It enhances quality of life and brings spaces to life. Architecture is never neutral, it surrounds us constantly and has a significant impact on our wellbeing."
— Marco Gietzen, Founder of Edge Creatives Studio
He brings the perspective of a former professional athlete to projects where recovery, focus, and the long view matter. Edge Creatives Studio was founded on the belief that: architecture can be ecological, intelligent, and beautiful at the same time.
Marco is supported by a close-knit network of collaborators, including Sebastian Probstfeld (clay construction and ecological renovation) and Kasia Mijas-Galloway (interior design and material consulting).
What Clients Say
Laura & Michael
"Marco is an extremely open and communicative person. The collaboration with ECS was easy and we were able to clarify all open questions at any time. He made the best possible use of our property. We feel very comfortable in our dream home. A mixture of modern yet practical living was implemented very well for us. We are completely satisfied and would recommend Edge Creatives Studio at any time."
Christina & Joe
"If you're looking for someone who can create a house like no other, something extraordinary, something completely individual - then Edge Creatives Studio is definitely the right choice. All our wishes were realized and now we are simply happy."
FAQs
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Pricing depends on scope, site, and level of detail.
For full architectural builds we calculate the fee based on the actual project cost using the standard German fee structure (HOAI), so you can compare us directly with any other architect — line for line.
Floor plan optimisation is a fixed remote service. Every quote is fully itemised: no hidden lines, no padded extras.
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A floor plan optimisation typically takes 7-14 days.
A full architectural project (from first conversation through building permit) usually runs around 6–12 months, longer for complex sites or commercial work.
We share a timeline before you commit and update it transparently as the project moves.
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Sometimes, yes — a different material, a tighter layout, a phased build.
Sometimes, no — and we'll tell you so.
We don't cut corners on things that affect health, durability or how the building actually performs over time.
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The early concept phase is iterative by design — it's where the project is actually shaped, so we don't put a fixed cap on rounds.
For later, more detailed stages, scope is agreed upfront so the process stays focused.
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Floor plan optimisation, architectural and interior design are delivered worldwide.
If a building permit is needed: We're licensed to submit building permits only in Germany, so for this service we partner with local architects.
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This is where Marco's wife is from :)
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