Design Post | A Project's Beginning
This is how it begins. Brainstorming the mood, of a space. Imagining the feeling of it. Beginning the description, seeing and hearing its first words. Giving context to a lifestyle. Before there’s a single stick, stone, or sheet of metal or glass, and, dare I say, even before there’s a line on paper, this is how a house begins.
With that, you can then start to pull in some ideas of structure and form that might fit that mood, that lifestyle - a language in materials, is what it is, that will speak the words of this particular home. It’s about finding. A home finding itself, finding its place, finding its fluency, first by images alone.
All that you see here, Loves, is for a project that’s a ways out yet, and it’ll go through many iterations before I land on the sweet spot, but this is its start. Starts feel hopeful, don’t they? They feel like anything is possible, like you don’t know what’s around the bend but you really, really want to keep going just to see what’s there. Because, in the end, this is a someone’s story, someone’s house - they’ll live here. (And, gosh, don’t you like to see where people live?)
