The case for the thick wall
Thin, layered construction is efficient on a spreadsheet and fragile in a building's second half-century. A note on mass, repair and the things a wall can do when it is allowed to be deep.
Notes
Short pieces on construction, urbanism and method. Written in the studio, published without a schedule.
Ground before object
Most of what a building gives a city happens in its first three metres. A note on why the studio starts every project at the ground plane and works upward.
Drawing as an instrument, not an output
On why the studio still sections everything by hand before it is modelled, and what gets lost when the first act of design is a render.