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This was a small job built around a single skill: presenting to a client. Little Boltons was a private residence in Kensington for a very wealthy client, and one where contact time was minimal; every drawing had to be produced against a genuinely tight turnaround, often at only days' notice.
The brief centred on the basement: a double-height level the client wanted to hold a 20-metre pool, a sauna, a steam room and a bar. All of that had to sit alongside a heat pump room, itself demanding both energy and floor space, while London's water table put a hard limit on how much could simply be excavated. Every square metre had to earn its place; nothing could be assumed to fit.
The technical resolution mattered, but the real education sat elsewhere. Producing drawings at that pace forced a discipline of its own: work fast, without cutting corners. And yet speed wasn't the harder skill. Managing what the client saw, and how they read it, was: a drawing needs enough information to be understood, but not so much that a stray detail steals focus from the decision the client actually has to make. Clarity, in the end, is a design choice in itself.
