Longevity is a design decision made years before the building is ever occupied.
This idea recurs across our work because it keeps proving itself under real conditions, not just in the studio. We design for the building's fortieth year, not its opening week.
"We design for the building's fortieth year, not its opening week."
We first noticed this while documenting a completed project long after handover — the kind of observation that only shows up once a building has been lived in for a while, not on the drawings.
What follows from this isn't a rule so much as a bias we now bring into every early design conversation: a default we have to actively argue ourselves out of, rather than one we have to remember to apply.