It is easy to think of a room as four walls and a ceiling. In practice people experience rooms as a sequence: a threshold, a place to pause, a place to settle, and a view out.

Thresholds and corners

A window seat, a deep reveal or an arched doorway gives a room a second scale. Someone can sit inside the thickness of the wall and still be part of the room. These are small areas, but they are often where people end up spending their time.

We try to avoid corners that are only corners. Where two walls meet, we ask what the corner could become: a bench, a shelf, a place for a lamp.

A room is a sequence, not a container.