
Designing with climate, not against it
Most buildings are designed as though weather were an error to be corrected. The cheapest, longest-lasting comfort comes from the opposite assumption.
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A material is a decision about time. Some improve with weather and use; most are specified to resist both, and lose.
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The courtyard is the oldest way of making a dense city liveable. It is also the first thing value engineering removes.
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Nine-tenths of a building's effect on a city happens in the first three metres above the pavement. Almost none of the design effort goes there.
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We still draw by hand first, and it is not sentimentality. Hand drawing is slower in a way that changes what you notice.
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Retrofit has become the majority of our work. The hard part is not the structure — it is resisting the urge to make the old building comfortable everywhere.
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