Tony Owen Partners is a firm of architects taking a new approach to the issues of visualising the built environment. This approach recognises that we are increasingly dealing with a new and unprecedented set of realities including limited resources and space, changing climate and the new realities of the global information and financial network. At the same time, technology is delivering new digital tools and capabilities which are impacting the means which architecture is realised. As a result of these tools, we are exploring an architecture which is more responsive to the environment. We refer to this as‘Elastic Design’. This is an architecture that is pliant, yet has an inherent structure and ordering principle. Elastic Architecture is an architecture that is capable of responding to all manner of changing variables. This includes spatial, programatic, environmental and structural issues We are envisioning dynamic buildings which repond to variations in inputs and relationships.