Every building should embody a sense of the place by being sensitive to the climate and the culture of the place by minimising solar gain and accentuating air movement for cooling using various elements including water.
Wonderful, pleasurable and efficient spaces result not only from an economic energy strategy or from the orchestration of natural and artificial light, but also from a study of the building programme or brief, and from cost management.
Experience of working in the UK and other countries including India, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania and USA.
Cost management is of great importance - all buildings have been completed within their respective budgets.
Project management includes the projects of the Gates Malaria Foundation in Tanzania.
All received briefs are rigorously questioned and researched often resulting in a complete re-think of the project. A dining room for a school became a covered stepped auditorium under the library after the students' actual requirements were analysed.