CO Adaptive

CO Adaptive is a design-build practice specializing in high performance renovations of existing buildings. Our organization is made up of two divisions: CO Adaptive Architecture focuses on the design and documentation of our projects, and is celebrating its 13 year anniversary. Its sister company CO Adaptive Building, operates as a construction manager and woods trade partner for many of our projects, and is now approaching its fourth year in business.Within an industry preoccupied with the finished image of architecture, we seek to turn focus to the means of making and maintaining buildings. Our work aims to reduce operational energy while also minimizing embodied energy. We tackle this challenge by working with existing buildings, retrofitting them for resilience and durability using healthy, equitably sourced, local and renewable materials. We believe that design and building should be a collaborative practice that works to solve today’s biggest challenges. Throughout the practice, our culture is guided by five core values:

• We each take agency
• We value our time and strive for higher efficiency
• We believe collaboration always takes us further
• We question the status quo
• We find beauty in the process

CO Adaptive is a woman-owned business enterprise and is currently seeking B Corp certification.