Can Architects and Builders Be Friends? | Tim Dorrington #90

we've done

some yeah we've done four or five or

something like that

yeah yeah yeah and um and what was sort of like the the tricky part of this project was that was it was this one like a pretty straightforward one or were there some complications

it was pretty straightforward really i mean you know besides the fact it's quite a steep site and uh there's some services issues and uh trying to fit the house onto the site without blocking anyone else's views and things like that besides all those normal stuff.

It was pretty straightforward though.

The design came together logically and it was good walking around today and having a look at the place and seeing that it's very similar to the absolute first concept design presentation in terms of layout and materials and stuff like that.

So that's good it

was

really

good the design

processes and documentation stages and stuff went really smoothly the clients were great um really bought into the process and stuff and um yeah it was it was a very very simple project

yeah so how much of the how much of the sort of like the the home aesthetically and sort of the you know, the layout and material selection, how much of that is, and I assume there's a fair bit from the client's perspective, but like how much did they, when they come to you, how much do they sort of like rely on you to provide guidance with like the concept and so forth?

Yeah, quite a lot, but it's a team thing.

You know, I mean, we'd spend a fair bit of time at the start of the project really getting clear on the brief.

And that's not just, you know, three bedrooms and a bathroom and, you know, a view over there.

It's kind of, you know, we go through past projects and we go through other people's projects as well.

And, you know, they like the look of this or they like this material.

or they like how this room feels and stuff.

So we go through a bit of that up front.

And once you've got quite a good clarity about what the brief is and things, it comes together quite well.

So the material and the materiality of every project will be different because every client is different.

What they're bringing to the table is different.

Arguably, what we're bringing to the table is, you know, in the same family across projects, but it's the clients that add things Some points are different sometimes and materials and stuff like that.

Yeah.