When I design a building, I'm making sure you and I can get to the front door, there's enough of a threshold for entry, and that the rooms are in a logical sequence.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.
There are always door openings. And gradually, it accumulates. The opportunities open up in front of you.
I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.
When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you're even aware of it. I mean, you make sure there's not a hole you're going to fall into, but mostly you're not even aware of what you're thinking.
But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.
My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.
It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.
The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows.
If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.
You never know what doors are going to open up and why they are going to open up. You've got to be ready to walk through them.