Every project in the studio starts with a site model: the rock, the trees, the neighbours, at 1:500. It lives on the long table for the whole project, and everyone who walks past moves something.
A model is honest in a way a rendering never is. You cannot hide a clumsy roof behind a sunset. You see immediately where the shadow falls at three o’clock in December.
Three models per project
- The site model, which stays on the table from the first sketch to the last meeting.
- Working models in cardboard, made in an afternoon and thrown away without regret.
- One final model in basswood, which the client takes home.
