Notes from the scaffold
What we learn on site, written up between projects. Lime, light, glass, stone and oak, and the slow work of reading a building before touching it.
6 min read
Mixing lime the slow way
Why we slake our own putty, wait three months to use it, and never reach for cement.
4 min read
Light for a dark vault
How we light rooms that were built to be dim, without flattening them.
8 min read
The east window, pane by pane
Four hundred and twelve quarries, taken out, cleaned and set back in new lead.
5 min read
Why we leave the scars
Old repairs, blocked doors and burn marks are part of the record. We keep most of them.
5 min read
Oak that moves
Green oak shrinks, twists and checks. We design for it instead of fighting it.
7 min read
A winter of measuring
Before Ostrum Hall had a single drawing, we spent four months reading it.
