In 2003 i started sketching a design for a client on the Simonstown mountainside - I take architectural design from an outside first inwards architectural design approach. Most designers work from a plan layout outwards approach. However i feel the end products aesthetics must work first, before one tries to create the layout plans. Fitting architecture to plan has its own set of aesthetic challenges.
Walling and roofing a plan if an architectural designer doesn't know what they are doing, to my mind, can create very dull massove roof scape end products.