Imajineer Studio
Architecture
Notes on architecture, product development and brand work from the studio.
Material Honesty in Residential Architecture
Material honesty is the decision to let a material be what it is, rather than dress a cheaper one in the costume of a dearer one. In Phnom Penh's humidity...
Why Proportion in Architecture Outlasts Style
Proportion in architecture is the ratio between a building's parts, and the eye reads it as right or wrong long before it notices the style. This piece works...
Reading a Building From the Street
After a few monsoons, some buildings grow dark streaks under every sill and parapet while the buildings next to them stay clean. The difference is a groove...
The Floor Plan Persuades. The Section Decides.
Sales galleries hand out floor plans and almost never sections. That is not an accident. The plan carries the square meter count the sale runs on. The section...
Vernacular Khmer Architecture and the Modern Tower
The traditional Khmer house has a five-centimeter gap along its roofline that most people never notice. It is a ventilation system, and it points to a design...
Why Generic Glass Boxes Fail in Cambodia's Climate
A generic glass box presents the same face to all four points of the compass. At 11.5 degrees north, that single decision is where the building starts to lose...
Greywater Recycling in Mid-Rise Residential
Greywater is more than half of what a residential building discharges, and it arrives at almost exactly the volume needed to flush the toilets. Recycling it...
Daylight Quality Versus Daylight Quantity
A light meter reads quantity. It says nothing about glare, color fidelity, or the direction light enters, which are the properties a resident actually feels...
The Owner-Architect-Contractor Triangle
In the standard way a building gets delivered, the owner signs two contracts and the two firms doing the work sign nothing with each other. That gap is the...