Process
Feb 2026 · 5 min
The site walk we do before any drawing
Before a single line is drawn, we spend a full day walking the property with the client and nothing else — no laptop, no camera, just the land.
Introduction
Every commission begins the same way: a full day on-site, with the client, carrying nothing but a notebook.
The Walk
We walk the property slowly, at the client’s pace, stopping wherever they stop without asking why — those pauses become the plan’s anchors.
No sketching happens on-site. The point is to notice, not to design; design comes later, once the land has had a chance to speak first.
Why It Matters
Every fixed point in the eventual plan — the entry, the main room’s orientation, the garden — traces back to something noticed on that first walk.
A house drawn without this walk is a house drawn about a lot, not about a place.
Journal
Feb 2026 · 5 min
