Every project in the studio passes through the workshop at the back of the room. Long before a client sees a rendering, they see a box of card with a hole for the sun.
We are often asked why a studio that draws everything on screen still spends days cutting card and pouring plaster. The honest answer is that a screen is very good at showing what a room looks like, and very bad at showing how it feels.
Light you can hold
A card model at 1:20 is big enough to put your eye to. With a single lamp moving across the table we can watch morning light reach a kitchen counter, or see a bedroom stay dark at seven in the morning when it should not.
Plaster comes later, once the plan is settled. It is heavy and slow, and it shows texture and shadow the way stone and concrete will on site.
