The physical qualities of a surface, material, or object and how they read visually. Real material history—weathering, wear, repair—is difficult to fake and even harder to ignore once you notice it.
A window costs less than almost anything else in a building’s budget, yet daylight is routinely the first thing value-engineered away when a project runs tight.
The column grid of a former factory or the low ceilings of a converted warehouse look like limitations, until they become the thing that makes the new space feel like nowhere else.
