Working with existing buildings
Most of our work begins in rooms somebody else designed. That is less of a limit than it sounds.
Journal
Notes from the desk and the site.
- 02
Why we draw sections early
Plans tell you how a building is organised. Sections tell you what it will feel like to be inside it.
- 03
Five materials that age well
A finish should look better in year ten than in year one, or at the very least worse in an interesting way.
- 04
Daylight in narrow homes
Belgium’s terraced houses are long, narrow and dark in the middle. There are only a few ways to deal with that, and most of them are in the roof.
- 05
Designing small hospitality spaces
A guest spends only a night or two in a room, and judges it within thirty seconds. That is a very particular brief.
- 06
Notes from a renovation
Eleven site visits, written down as they happened. A record of how a project actually moves, rather than how it appears afterwards.