drawing register - all sheets
a-200
Projects
Seven commissions, six built and one on site. Each one is filed here as the drawing it was designed in rather than the photograph it was finished as, because the section is the version that had to be true before anything was built.
cut
anything the section plane passes through - walls, slabs, the ground
seen
beyond the cut - sills, treads, handrails, the far wall
set out
construction lines, existing fabric, sightlines, daylight
the point
one per drawing, and only ever the thing the section was cut to show
the copper rule is a house rule, not a standard - if a section needs two of them it means we have not finished deciding what the drawing is about
Every commission, in order of issue
(6) built, 2019-2025 (1) on site
- House Verlat courtyard house built
A brick courtyard house on a plot 8.4 m wide, planned around the one opening that gets daylight to the back wall.
a-201 / courtyard house / 2023 / built
- Kalk Hall market hall conversion built
A heated room built inside a cold iron shell, so the trusses stay exactly as they were found.
a-202 / market hall conversion / 2021 / built
- Two Sisters paired townhouses built
Two houses for two sisters, mirrored about a party wall thick enough that neither can hear the other.
a-203 / paired townhouses / 2024 / built
- Waterline Depot archive building built
A records store with half its volume below a water table that sits at -2.10, and a section that admits it.
a-204 / archive building / 2019 / built
- Studio Aker workshop and office built
One room 5.6 m to the underside of the truss, with a mezzanine hung in it that touches no wall.
a-205 / workshop and office / 2022 / built
- Brick Orchard 14 dwellings built
Fourteen homes from two section types, reached from a deck wide enough to be a place rather than a corridor.
a-206 / 14 dwellings / 2025 / built
- Nine Wells Hall school hall on site
A hall for 240 children with a lantern sized by reverberation time rather than by daylight.
a-207 / school hall / 2027 / on site
Six a year, and we are honest about which six
We take on six projects a year and no more, so the register is short on purpose. If your site is at the stage where a section would tell you something, that is the right moment to write.