One practice, three scales.

We draw the ground, the building and the room as a single problem, because on site they behave like one.

Bridge City Estate: the internal street seen from a roof terrace, houses either side, palms along both frontages and two people sitting out on a first-floor balcony.
Bridge City Estate, Community 14, Tema — the internal street
Long section through Project Topaz, cut from the back porch through the dining and living areas to the stair, with a bedroom over and a roof terrace above that. Grid lines are numbered 1 to 6 across the top and floor-to-floor dimensions run down the right-hand side.

Project Topaz, Accra — long sectionY2

HOW WE WORK

The section is where we settle what is outside. This one cuts through Project Topaz from the back porch to the roof, and the terrace up there exists because of a note on the drawing: waterproof screed laid to falls on the slab. A roof that sheds water is a roof you can put chairs on. The plan does the same job on the ground — every surface at Kleinpaschleben named, and the fall on each one written down.

Most of our work arrives as one discipline and grows. Project Onyx came in as drawings to revise and left as the architecture, the interiors and the landscape. We would rather hold all of it than hand half away.

Detail plan naming every surface: woodland trail in bark chips, activity lane in dyed concrete falling at 1.5 per cent, event grounds in interlocking bricks, playground in poured-in-place rubber, a concrete art platform, an arboretum either side and a cedarwood bird hotel.

Where Generations Unite, Kleinpaschleben — detail plan, surfaces and falls
The double-height living room at Project Topaz seen past the dining table: a stair rising to an upper walkway, a slatted timber panel on the left and full-height glazing to the garden.

Project Topaz, Accra — the double-height living room

SELECTED WORK