the brief was to analyse a building i had never been inside. under, by snøhetta, sits five metres below the sea at lindesnes on norway's southern tip, and all i had was published drawings and press photographs. i redrew them, rebuilt the whole thing in three dimensions, and rendered it before i could measure anything.
then the analysis: daylight simulations in sefaira, ventilation rule of thumb checks, and an embodied carbon count across every material. the window to floor ratio came out at seven per cent against a recommended twenty. the darkness is deliberate, and it intentionally fails every metric i had.
you can measure a building properly and still be measuring the wrong thing. some buildings break conventional rules and create submerged paradise.
