Why I still point the last joint myself
An architect on site is either a nuisance or a colleague. Here is how I try to be the second one, and why the last day of a build is the one I never miss.
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Site notes, material trials and the odd opinion from an architect who spends half the week outdoors.
Site notes: Braid Hills, week nineteen
The roof is on, the courtyard walls are up, and the wind has finally found something to argue with. A fortnightly diary entry from the concrete house on the hill.
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What a rammed earth wall in Glen Clova taught me
We rammed the subsoil from a hillside in Angus into 500 mm walls and then waited a winter to see what happened. Notes on mix, shuttering and the things nobody tells you.
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Insulating a tenement from the inside without killing the stone
Edinburgh has forty thousand cold sandstone flats and you cannot wrap them from the outside. How I detail wood-fibre internal insulation so that the wall keeps breathing.
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