Mission

Objectives

• Humane habitation
• Successful built results

Method

• listen to users and clients
• imagine the obvious
• draw, refine, redraw
• gather a skilled team
• motivate the construction team
• encourage openness and accountability
• identify risks and manage them
• deliver a good result on time and budget
• monitor the result in use.

Approach

• a city is an act of collective imagination
• resources follow ideas
• love what you do not know in order to understand it, a virtuous spiral
• value add in practical lateral thinking
• buildings are flexible
• dare to dream
• a site has a history, poetry, living experience, value: visible and invisible
• be buildable, practical
• listen to the construction team
• improve the service.

Leading to

• rich designs pared down to lasting essentials, encouraging lively inhabitation in unexpected ways
• successful, popular, challenging spaces that enhance dignity of life for those who inhabit them
• the sound of a happily inhabited building
• sustainability and choice in future
• chaos and order in balance: doing enough - serendipity
• natural lighting and ventilation
• low energy, climate adaptive buildings.

Measuring

• user appraisals before and after
• energy use designed and constructed
• performance of the building in use.