Assaí is a design and project management firm based in Sydney, Australia.

Assaí specialises in all aspects of the provision of culturally appropriate buildings and infrastructure. Assaí has developed a set of in-house approaches that together constitute our defining difference, which we call being 'culture driven'.

What that means is that whether we are creating a new work environment for a Sydney legal firm, a new housing system for a mining company in Papua New Guinea, or managing the reconstruction of militia-damaged schools in East Timor, we see the key driver for the project to be:

the knowledge, vision, and practices that reside within the organisation or community for whom we are working.

We now apply this approach across four areas of practice:

	Strategic Workplaces creating workplaces that best support organisational processes, culture and values. more
	International Development combining national goals and international best practice with local aspirations and ways of doing things, to create the grounding for sustainable development. more
	Community Infrastructure supporting Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander communities to set their own priorities and determine their own environmental futures. more
	Regional Architecture developing forms of architecture that draw upon local knowledge and traditions, and are adapted to the local climate, economy and culture. more

Assaí is centred in Sydney, in a home that we've created for ourselves: The Ark Workspace. The Ark is a knowledge community that houses not only Assaí, but several other firms, in a unique serviced office environment offering knowledge sharing, conviviality, centrality, spaciousness, flexibility, and technology.