Insights
Notes from practice.
Short positions drawn from live work. Longer arguments are published as research.
01
Infrastructure should lead, not follow
A phase that cannot be serviced cannot be occupied. Servicing capacity, not market appetite, sets the pace of delivery.
02
The rendered aerial is not a plan
It depicts one of thousands of valid outcomes. The structure plan and the code are the instruments that endure.
03
Engagement before design
Consultation on a finished drawing is detected as theatre, and it is priced into every subsequent delay.
04
Affordability is decided years early
By the time a specification is being value-engineered, land, density and servicing have already determined the outcome.
05
Design for the institution you have
Frameworks that require sustained high-capacity administration are not implemented. Repeatable components are.
06
Public ground is the asset
Buildings change hands and change use. The street, the square and the park are what the public retains.
Longer form
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