ARTIFICIAL DETAIL

Detail engineering

Façade, roof, junction and threshold: solutions for the hard points of a building. An independent detail group that also serves other offices' projects.

A detail is the most careful decision made at a building's weakest point. We draw the junctions of façade and roof, window and wall, wet room and dry room at 1:5 and 1:1, and manage heat, water, moisture and load to the millimetre. Sheets are prepared with the builder in mind and issued before work begins on site. Every decision in plan is proven in section. The complexity stays in the section and the surface shows a single quiet line: refinement is the joint disappearing from view.

Fields

Façade and junction details
Thermal bridges, water and vapour lines, tolerances; drawn at 1:5 and 1:1.
Materials and fixings
Steel, glass, timber and stone; fixings that can be taken apart, repaired and recovered.
Fabricator coordination
Shop-drawing review, sample approval and installation sequence, so the design reaches production intact.
For other practices
We take on the hardest point of a project; the solution is issued under your own title block.

Selected work