Material Palette

Whitlock Bay builds from a short list of materials and returns to them often. That familiarity is what lets a detail get refined instead of quietly reinvented.

Every surface has to age well in salt air. If a finish only photographs well on the day of handover, it does not belong anywhere in our specification.

Studio Voice

• Measured: Describe what the drawing shows before arguing for it.
• Local: Street names, tide times and trades all belong in our writing.
• Frank: State a constraint plainly rather than burying it in an appendix.
• Concrete: Choose the specific noun over the impressive adjective.

Drawing Standards

A set should read the same way in a site hut as it does across a client's table, so every issue holds to:

• One line-weight hierarchy carried across every sheet
• North arrows and a scale bar on all plan drawings
• Material keys spelled out, never shortened to initials
• Revision clouds cleared before a set goes out

What We Publish

We share how the studio thinks without turning buildings into marketing:

• Detail drawings released once a building is occupied
• Short site notes written while the trades are still working
• A yearly review of what the coast did to last season's finishes

Treat this page as the working standard. Mark up anything that has drifted since the last issue, and we agree the changes at the quarterly Whitlock Bay review.