Like many architects we explore several solutions for every project. In this way we can test alternative directions a project can reveal.
Exploring Multiple Paths Forward
Once four or five adequate designs have been developed – we test each one in dialogue with our clients.
Architecture as Trial, Error and Discovery
Not only does this process remind everyone involved that design is a fluid, unpredictable and beautifully inefficient process without a predetermined end point – it also illustrates how we are forced to abandon many perfectly reasonable designs in favor of one perfectly reasonable design.