Journal
Short pieces on materials, sites and the way we work. Written by the team, a few times a year.
Every project in the studio starts on the big table. Renderings are useful, but a model is something a client can pick up, turn towards the light and point at.
We have watched clients move a wall with one finger and solve a problem we had been drawing around for a week. That alone pays for the cardboard.
Before you fall for the view, ask about the slope, where the sun is in winter, how a truck gets in, what the zoning allows and who might build next door.
We do this as a four-week feasibility study. It costs a fraction of the plot and has saved more than one client from an expensive mistake.
Istanbul light is soft in winter and fierce in summer. Deep window reveals, shutters and courtyards are old answers that still work better than tinted glass.
In Kuzguncuk House we used timber frames half a metre deep. In July they shade the glass; in December the low sun reaches the back of the room.
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