OCHAP | Office for Cohabitation Processes is an architecture, design, and research office directed by Valerio Franzone and based in New York and Rome.

OCHAP works at the intersection between architecture, humanity, and nature to foster the built environment's relational and sustainable character by investigating architecture's role, limits, and potential. Shape, tectonics, program, and processuality become devices to explore possible cohabitation typologies and strategies between different natural and artificial systems at multiple scales.

OCHAP develops architecture’s cohabitation potential to oppose individualistic, exploitive, colonial, and extractive approaches by understanding the ecological, cultural, social, economic, technological, and political processes involved. OCHAP rethinks its status quo to tackle the urgencies of societies and ecosystems and envision other possible futures.

Architecture is action, not just representation.
Valerio Franzone, Ph.D., is an architect licensed in the U.K. (RIBA, ARB) and Italy (OAR). He explores architecture to nurture the built environment’s relational and sustainable character through design and research projects.
Valerio Franzone is the Managing Editor of the architecture magazine KoozArch. He is curating a series of conversations with practitioners, scholars, and curators, including Philippe Rahm, Lydia Kallipoliti, and Carson Chan, on architecture’s role in tackling the current societal and environmental urgencies through research, pedagogy, and professional practice.
He has been an Adjunct Professor at the Facoltà di Architettura di Ascoli Piceno and has been invited as a guest critic at various schools, including Columbia GSAPP, Pratt Institute, and Syracuse University.
He has lectured at various institutions, including the TU Delft, GAM in Turin, Università IUAV di Venezia, and the Centre d’Art Santa Mònica in Barcelona. From 2023 to 2024, he was selected for the Planetary Cohort of Respondents of Affirmations at Columbia University GSAPP.
His projects have been awarded in international competitions and shown in several exhibitions, such as the 7th, 11th, and 14th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia.
His projects and texts appear in international magazines such as Domus, Abitare, Detail, AD Architectural Design, A+U, and Volume.
He holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from the “Villard d’Honnecourt” International Doctorate in Architecture (Università IUAV di Venezia) and a Master of Architecture (Facoltà di Architettura Valle Giulia - Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza). 
He co-founded the design groups 2A+P and nicole_fvr and the architecture office 2A+P Architettura. He was also a co-founder and co-editor in chief of the magazine 2A+P rivista di progettazione and co-editor of the book GR - la generazione della rete.