Sun angle isn't a constraint to be solved once — it changes what a plan should do at every hour.
This idea recurs across our work because it keeps proving itself under real conditions, not just in the studio. The sun is the most reliable consultant on any project we've ever worked with.
"The sun is the most reliable consultant on any project we've ever worked with."
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.