Tristan’s passion for creativity is evident in his relentless pursuit of drawing, sketching, and painting, which deeply inform his the studios innovative design approach. His artistic practice seamlessly integrates with his architectural vision, enabling him to craft unique, thoughtful, and imaginative projects.
One of the most important aspects of this commitment to drawing and sketching is the connections and understandings of a ‘site’ that are garnered. Manually documenting the contexts in which projects reside, and creating a journal not of photography, but of hand drawn site features creates an inexplicable link between TWA’s project designs, and of their sites and contexts.
Places and spaces in and around a given site are committed to a deeper sense of memory through this visual diary keeping, rather than through the transience of clicking a shutter. The countless site walks that are required in this journal keeping are all part of this site immersive process.
Layered upon this are the conversations with client, locals, and other stakeholders, processes of physical model making and the crafting of maquettes, and digital processes that both contrast the more manual ones and explore conceptual mass and form generation slowly binding the programmatical and planning requirements of the brief, with the aesthetic and architectural aspirations of the project.
