Field notes, essays, and ideas from the studio — on climate, craft, and the making of place.
Before a single air conditioner is specified, a building should already be comfortable. We look at the passive strategies — orientation, deep shade, cross-ventilation, and thermal mass — that let architecture work with Ghana's climate rather than against it.
Laterite, timber, terrazzo, sandcrete. The materials closest to a site often carry the least cost, the smallest footprint, and the most character. A case for building with what is already here.
Ghana's courtyard tradition quietly solved problems we still wrestle with today — privacy, gathering, climate, and cost. We revisit the compound house and what it still teaches the modern home.
As Accra grows upward, the real question is not whether to build tall, but how to do it without turning its back on the street. Notes on density that still feels human.
Durability is the quietest form of sustainability. We look at the details, finishes, and decisions that let a building wear its years well — and stay worth keeping.
Every project begins as a conversation. We walk through the Ignite Group process — how a brief becomes a concept, a concept becomes a drawing, and a drawing becomes a place.
