The tree’s leaves love the sun, takes it in vigorously, and its underside remains so cool, mosquitoes have their afternoon naps there. In 2 weeks time, when we return back to our office, we are sure that the air we take in is one that has been freshly garnered from our garden’s plants and nonchalantly exhausted at the top of our roof edge chimney-like frame, like clockwork, essentially for free. Some call it passive environmental design… We think it is just common design sense.

Our office is also constantly filled with natural light. Sunlight exposure to our body creates Vitamin D. Vitamin D has several important functions. Perhaps the most vital are regulating the absorption of calcium and phosphorus, and facilitating normal immune system function. We are all going to have to be strengthened by the spaces we spend time creating.

But, Why do we all do architecture any more, we wonder? If it is merely to put money in the bank, then there are a million other better ways to do so, with less hassle. If that is the case, then in the place of dollars, the purpose to practice is hereby then to change+improve the human spirit; We think 40P, our own office building, is one that will one-day be reconsidered, by a very small group of people, as a mere office space that has change the way they look at confined spaces, after a pandemic of unprecedented proportions.