APPROACH: DOMESTIC
Architecture is about making places for people. Somewhere you can be comfortable enough to lose yourself completely in a book, for example. Or a place to concentrate hard enough to finish your task. Or a place to eat, drink and talk away the evening. At best, the place is one which suits you so well, which becomes so much part of your life, that you take it wholeheartedly for granted.
There are a great many questions involved in making or adapting places. These can be deeply personal, from the best place to put a socket to the way light might strike the breakfast table in the morning; from the shape of the building to whether you need a magazine rack in the loo. There are also associated practical questions, from cost to statutory and legal obligations, from the time the building work takes to the people who might carry it out. Seamlessly resolved into a building, the sum of decisions arising from such questions manifests an ethos, an attitude to the world integrated in built form.
The appropriate integration of physical, social and intellectual structures in building is a serious matter. I have no rigid ‘style'. My approach is that of a tailor of buildings. Each design response is intricately tailored to the needs of its occupants and the specifics of its site.
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