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N°04 — Journal

Essays · Process · Material

Sheet J-01

Notes from the
drawing table

Notes from the
drawing table

Short essays on materials, process and the places we build in — written by the people who draw them.

Short essays on materials, process and the places we build in — written by the people who draw them.

Full-size plywood mock-up of a window corner in a workshop

Process

Drawing at 1:1

Why we still build full-size mock-ups of every important junction, and what a sheet of plywood can teach a drawing.

6 min read

Earlier notes

Archive

Terraced white marble quarry in morning light

Material

The Quarry Visit

Before we specify a stone, we go and stand in front of the rock face it comes from. Notes from three days in the marble belt of Estremoz.

8 min read

Sunlight from a clerestory falling on a plaster wall

Essay

Light Is a Material

On clerestories, deep reveals and the discipline of designing the shadow before the wall.

5 min read

Aerial view straight down on a terraced hillside with olive trees, a winding dirt track and a small roofless stone ruin

Studio

Reading a Site from Above

Every project starts with the same exercise: a week of aerial photographs, old maps and a single sheet of tracing paper.

4 min read

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