Good Architecture is self-made when natural factors and indigenous features of the site are given careful consideration. Climate, solar orientation, prevailing breezes, vegetation, view, topography and existing amenities such as oceans, marshes, rivers and lagoons – These are all considerations that must be recognized and sensitively manipulated in order to bring the outside in and take the inside out.

This design theory is sensitively reflected in much of the original architecture of South Carolina’s early Coastal Islands. Blended together with native building materials, a variety of textures, human scale and muted colors, the natural factors and indigenous features of the site make it difficult to decide if you are in the building or out. When properly meshed, the potential is boundless.