Journal

Harbour Workshops was a timber model at 1:50 on our Brussels table before it was a floor of 180 desks in an Ostend warehouse.

Inès Laurent at the bench, timber strips, and why the Harbour Workshops model was built before the mezzanine was drawn.

What the architect and the client look at together once a timber frame is standing, and what the brief from week one still has to answer.

A timber beam, a steel connector and the raking light on a detail that has to stay precise from the model to the building.