Journal

Notes from the studio

Design notes, process, material tests and the occasional piece of news — written between the drawing board and the workshop.

Design notes · 24 July 2026
Where the light lands
Two places of worship, two ways of handling daylight — and the same decision underneath both: put the light where people are already looking.
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Process · 17 July 2026
Three towns, one showroom
Rathnapura, Kandy and Nawala. A retail idea only earns its keep once it survives being built somewhere else.
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Design notes · 10 July 2026
A lobby nobody owns
An apartment lobby is used by everyone in the building and belongs to none of them. That is the whole design problem.
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Materials · 3 July 2026
Tropical, without the shorthand
A villa in the hills above Kandy, and the problem with every material that has already decided what a tropical house looks like.
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Process · 18 May 2026
Why we build our own furniture
Owning the workshop changes what we are willing to draw. A note on the short walk between a sketch and a finished piece.
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Design notes · 2 April 2026
Lighting a room twice
Every room we hand over has two lighting schemes inside it — one for daylight, one for after dark. They are rarely the same room.
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Materials · 11 February 2026
Material notes: timber in coastal air
Salt, humidity and a sea breeze will find every shortcut in a joinery package. What we have learnt specifying timber near the water.
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News · 26 November 2025
Behind the Noorbhoy stall
A circular stand, one lit column, and eleven days of build. Notes from the project that took Best Overall Trade Stall at Architect 2024.
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Design notes · 8 September 2025
Reading a floor plan like a client
Drawings are a professional language, and most of our clients do not speak it. How we changed the way we present a plan.
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Notes from the studio

Where the light lands

Three towns, one showroom

A lobby nobody owns

Tropical, without the shorthand

Why we build our own furniture

Lighting a room twice

Material notes: timber in coastal air

Behind the Noorbhoy stall

Reading a floor plan like a client