On proportion in apartments

The best homes share a quality that floor plans alone cannot explain: the relationship between room height, opening size, and the quality of afternoon light.

When we begin a project, we study not the layout first, but the section — how a room breathes vertically, where shadow falls at four o’clock, whether a memory of an older verandah can be honoured without pastiche.

Proportion is not nostalgia. It is the discipline that lets contemporary life feel unhurried.