Studio-Method is a Rotterdam-based architecture and design studio working with reclaimed and second-hand materials.
We work on interiors, furniture, small-scale architecture, and dwelling, for private and commercial clients and cultural institutions who care not only about how something looks, but how it's made.
Our approach comes out of years of research into material reuse, waste, and the built environment, work that's taken us into demolition sites, gardens, and abandoned plots as often as into studios. We treat second-hand material not as a limitation but as a starting point, one that shapes how we design, source, and build, and often leads to results that a catalogue of new materials couldn't achieve.
Studio-Method was founded in Rotterdam in 2021 by Riel Bessai and Pedro Daniel Pantaleone.
Let’s get in touch! —— office@studio-method.xyz
Exhibitions
2025, What a Waste!, Gent, Belgium
2025, No Time To Waste, OMI (Office for Metropolitan Architecture), Rotterdam, Netherlands
2024, Pop-up Gallery VrIJland, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2023, Introduction to Dutch Design Week 2024, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2023, Design United 2024, Eindhoven, NL
2023, Relics, Rituals, and Debris - Krater, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2022, Get Set for Global Wellbeing - Dutch Design Week, Klokgebouw, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2022, Salone Del Mobile - Isola Design Gallery, Isola District - Milan, Italy
2022, Hydromax 2022 - IPKW Arnhem, Foreland Studios - Arnhem, Netherlands
2022, Duck-off, Time is the New Space, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2021, Archiprix 2022 - Keilepand 4M - Rotterdam, Netherlands
2021, Entangled Ecologies - Dutch Design Week, 4TU - Eindhoven, Netherlands
2021, Sustainability at Scale - Dutch Design Week, Van Berlo - Eindhoven, Netherlands
2021, Objet D’Art - The Holy Art Gallery - London, UK
Awards
2023, Talent Development Grant Scheme, Stimuleringsfonds Creative Industries NL, https://talent.stimuleringsfonds.nl/en/pedro_daniel_pantaleone
2022, Experiment Grant Scheme, Stimuleringsfond Creative Industries NL
2021, Best Graduation Award (Unito), Industrial Design Engineering, TU/Delft
2021, Archiprix selection 2022 Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment selection, TU/Delft
Research / Publications
2024, Designing with more-than-human temporalities, Design Research Society Conference 2024, https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/drs-conference-papers/drs2024/researchpapers/99/
2023, Fit for Purpose: Four considerations for how matter becomes material, Computing within LIMITS Conference, https://limits.pubpub.org/pub/l7i2kjaj/release/1
2022, Circular Composites: A Design Guide, OpenTU Delft, https://books.open.tudelft.nl/home/catalog/book/23
2021, Territory and Trans-gression: Alternative Models of Resilience in Post-exploitation Zones, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment TU/Delft
2021, Objectivization of Identity in the Contemporary Age and DIfferentialism: Towards a New Teleology, Argus TU/Delft