Architecture
Image: Dawn Addison, Raise Architects
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
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Andy Foster, Raise Architects
’m about to start designing. But before I can put pencil to paper, I am faced with a host of questions. What strategies will I use? Can I give the client what they want? Will my design be any good? All projects start in this way, but frustratingly the design process isn’t linear, and simply answering these questions won’t lead me to the final design. First, I must take a leap of faith and come up with a solution, then test it to see which questions 100 | Sherborne Times | September 2020
it answers. If it doesn’t answer the right questions, it will be time to start again. This particular project involves a Grade II listed former vicarage. Its layout is familiar: mature trees rise from behind a tall boundary wall; impressive entrance gates lead to a gravelled forecourt with the well-proportioned redbrick house beyond; an entrance porch with a shallow stone arch shelters an ornate front door; elegant chimneys extend the brickwork
