Reading a site before drawing a line
The most important decisions are usually made before the first sketch — on the site, with the survey, the sun and the neighbours in view.
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Notes from the practice — on design decisions, delivery discipline and the details that hold a project together. Written from Nairobi, for clients and collaborators anywhere.
We publish lessons from the studio: what a site teaches before the first line is drawn, how delivery protects design intent, and why some materials simply age better than others.
Whether you are a client, a collaborator or a fellow practitioner, these notes are an open invitation to think more carefully about the spaces we inhabit.
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The most important decisions are usually made before the first sketch — on the site, with the survey, the sun and the neighbours in view.
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Programme and budget are the visible measures. What is really being protected is the design intent.
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Daylight is the cheapest material on any project, and the one most often left to chance.
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