I quote Ayn Rands lead character in The Fountainhead, I do not build in order to have clients, I have clients in order

to build. We live in a series of spaces. Each of these spaces has a function of utility to serve our lives. The work I do creates, articulates, and defines the utility these outdoor habitat to ergonomically serve our lives. These spaces vary in scale and function. I look at a space and ask questions that range from drainage systems, to pollution, to circulation, to the psychological, sociological, and physiological in terms of effects and demands of the inhabitants. I walk into a plaza and cant help but analyze how the drainage system works. I analyze what types of people gravitate towards what spaces and why. I look at how the spaces create microclimates from shading in the summer to capturing heat and light in the winter. And then I ask myself, How could I design this space to better function to serve its users? A humble public servant using an array of tools (pens, pencils, paper, computer software, models, science, math, psychology, sociology, history, travel, experience, inspiration, nature, and art) to convey a message, that is my job. With that message I express a function, a utility, as simple as a space to look up at the stars, or as complicated as using flood control to save communities while providing them with public amenity, it is the simple quest to make the spaces we live more beautiful and more poetic. The utility of space.
by vchefti