Sheet 00 — Journal
Journal
Notes
06
Topics
05
Latest
Sep 2026
(02) — All notes
Sorted by date
Materials
4 min
Travertine, without the shine
Unfilled, honed travertine ages better than any stone we use. How we specify it, and what to tell a client about the holes.
Climate
7 min
Designing for snowmelt
At Pinewood the ground floods every April. Lifting the house 90 cm on screw piles solved it and gave us a better house.
Projects
5 min
The eleven-metre window
How one window became the plan for Skerry House, and why its sill is exactly 40 cm above the rock.
Materials
5 min
Brick that breathes
Lime-mortared brick lets a wall dry out between storms. Notes from the Moss Court courtyard walls.
Interiors
3 min
Stairs that slow you down
A stair is the only room you walk through at a fixed pace. We draw them wider and shallower than the regulations ask.
(03) — What we write about
Five topics
Process
How a project moves from site walk to snag list.
Materials
Stone, timber, lime and brick, and how they age.
Climate
Snow, wind, flood and the buildings that plan for them.
Projects
Stories from sites we have finished.
Interiors
Rooms, stairs, light and the things you touch.
312 white card models on the shelves in Oslo, and every one of them started an argument worth having.
(04) — The quarterly letter
Four emails a year