Authority concept · Field Ratio Architecture + Engineering

Define the decision before drawing the answer.

Buildings make more sense when program, structure, systems, existing conditions, phasing, and long-term use are treated as one decision set. Field Ratio is a fictional practice built to demonstrate that kind of coordination without inventing professional credentials.

Adaptive-reuse institutional interior combining historic masonry with precise contemporary structure and circulation.
01Practice
02Project records
03Approach
04Insights

01 Practice

Architecture, structural engineering, building-systems coordination, existing-building planning, and programming/feasibility are presented as related lenses rather than isolated departments.

02 Projects

Six fictional project records show different institutional decisions: continuity, adaptive reuse, occupied healthcare expansion, renovate-versus-replace, connected arts facilities, and technical-college lab renewal.

03 Approach

The method begins by defining the owner decision, documenting existing conditions and unknowns, testing alternatives, coordinating disciplines, and making phasing consequences visible.

04 Insights

A focused set of owner-side essays addresses renovate/replace, existing-building unknowns, engineering in feasibility, occupied phasing, programming, and RFQ preparation.

05 Project Brief

The intake asks for program, facility status, phase, schedule, procurement path, consultant status, and available documents—without asking for controlled procurement or security information.

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