USEFUL TIPS

• the levels of spatial distinction and expression across the range of activities and zones can be expressed exuberantly or minimally, however,
  
  
• your design must support our collective need for the simplification of life in the material and consumerist culture that has steadily overtaken all sanity and reason
  
  
• your design must also support our desire for heightened efficiency without the loss of sensory and environmental experience
  
  
• the development of the brief and selection of the site is a part of the design exercise- it is an opportunity to reflect on and express a value system through the vehicles of the client and their living needs
  
  
• the space you are designing is part of what is beyond, and the design must locate the project, in place, and in time and in its culture
  
  
• by a single space, the connections between the zones may be spatial, ie no physical connection, but with a continuity that is strong enough to make for continuity
  
  
• when there were less available materials to use, less choice, and fewer possessions, invention in the alternative uses and applications of what was available led to creative and unexpected outcomes
  
  
• think of CaesarStone and all the ways in which it can be constructed, cut, applied, layered. can it be angular and organic, hard and soft, crisp and blurred, massive and light, solid and translucent, rough as well as smooth…