Four trades you can't outsource.
Architecture, engineering, project management, construction. Phuket's standard model is to fragment them across five or six external offices. Every handover is a defect waiting to happen, which is why we keep all four under one roof.
7 min read · Alexis Hardenberg
Six rains and a programme.
A Phuket build sees seven months of significant rain a year. The programme has to assume that, not pretend otherwise. A note on planning a project that survives the wet season.
5 min read · The studio
Why we cast off-site.
Most Phuket builds default to cast-in-place concrete. We don't. A primer on precast, what it actually is, what it costs, and what it does for a programme run through seven months of rain.
6 min read · Alexis Hardenberg