Design Strategies for Enjoying the Rain 

I'm not an architect, but I love watching your videos. They're super aesthetic and I feel like they make me more appreciative of the built environment around me. Great way to start a Sunday! This one in particular makes me miss the Pacific Northwest ha

I sincerely want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. I'm currently in my third year and I'm working on my very first portfolio. I got to learn so many things from you. Thanks for being here for the confused students like me. 🙂

I live in the hills of North-central Idaho in a tiny rural town. Our little house has a metal roof. When my our bedroom was upstairs the sound of the rain pattering on the roof brought back so many wonderful childhood memories of being snug in my flannel-lined sleeping bag, listening to the rain on the canvas of our tent trailer. The first winter we were here, we had about 15’ (over 4.5m) of snow. Power and telephone went out, and I had to close the little library I ran. It was amazing, quiet, beautiful-like living in a snow globe. I constantly think there’s poetry in somewhere under the trees. My husband and I love watching your videos.

As a child, I used to enjoy sitting by a specific window when it rained because it was cooler than anywhere else in the house and I could hear the rain drops hitting the window. It was a mindful experience before I knew what mindfulness was lol. Great video!

Nothing like a brisk walk in the rain at night with the city lights reflecting off every shiny surface. I especially appreciate you speaking about the incorporation of nature back into the architecture.

As a Portuguese architect, this theme of outdoor integration is something that my architecture school (and others in my country) really focus on. The moments of contemplation and wholesomeness are really key when you want to infuse intimacy and comfort into the building, especially if it's to be a home for someone. Not sure if you (or whoever is reading this comment) are familiar with Álvaro Siza's work. If not, I do recommend studying his process and drive behind the projects. Thanks so much for the videos, Dami. Really enjoy them :)

i just love the sounds made by water in motion

There are a lot of things I can take inspiration for transportation design from Architecture, simplicity plus the functionality from Frank Lloyd's building is one of them.

I love the chain-rain-drain thinggy. Such a great idea! And I love the Autumn & Winter when I get out of the city and into nature... but when I'm in the city I rarely see anything but the negatives. This video gave me some insight into partly why... my city apartment completely blocks out any of the weather; it's something you're completely isolated from or completely exposed to - there's little of the comfy balance between the two.

My mom is planning to build her house and asked me to give suggestions. I am not an architect or anything, but I watch a lot of HGTV and design videos online. I convinced her that she needs a sleeping porch, a window seat with a large window and a big balcony. Lots of outdoor living features too. So this vid convinced me I did the right thing.

It's like this ep was made for me. I am 💯 in agreement on the rain feels. I go to bed every night listening to rain/thunder on my phone. We don't get as much rain as we did many many ago. I miss it, i love it.

im a first yr arch student... and sometimes i lose motivation -- but because of your videos, i learn alot and been motivated by u alot... hope you inspire more arch students with your platforn cuz i really appreciate your dedication.

This is beautifully explained. As a graduate architect, I often share facts about the need for 'site specific design'. To put it in few words I say, "The building is a platform for us to experience nature in a controlled manner".

Oddly enough i go for walks in the rain and it reinvigorates me. I too work in the creative industry and i find these long walks with rain dripping down my face replenishes my creative well.

I want to learn more about how to incorporate living trees into a house. And especially pleached and inosculated walls. I really love your videos.

Yes! Contrast! That's the key! I get this calming feeling when I'm inside the greenhouse, it's so quiet, it's warm and moist, but on a cozy way...

The moulding above my door wears a crown , for the east is jealous of the west. The serenity is changed by the sound of the water splashing in the pool. The fact that elements play such a part is very complex. Very interesting topic, thank you for sharing. Have a blessed week amen.

Love this, might be one of my favourite videos of yours~ There's just something about a well designed building's interaction with nature that just can't be described...ughhh, so good. Great content as always Dami!

Love that you included drawings in this video 😍

This was very relaxing like rain 🌧

Your videos are so inspirational and therapeutic at the same time 🙌 I’ll be going into architecture uni this year and you’ve taught me so much, I can’t wait to apply all the theory I’ve learnt into my own designs.

What a treat to find this on a Saturday morning. Thanks for sharing and giving words to things/feelings/observations often not well articulated....except from you!

Not an architect or anything (in IT), but I must say I enjoyed your video a lot. Also live in a rainy city, in Bergen (west coast of Norway). We have a saying: there is no such thing as bad weather, just wrong clothes.

Never thought I'd be interested in architecture, but Dami's video's hit different. They make me feel this sense of dreaminess, awe, and peace. I don't know why

I'll soon start to study architecture in uni and your videos are so cool!!! They make me sure that architeture is a truly beautiful field and is exactly what i want to do

As a Pacific Northwesterner (northern BC) I appreciate this video. I really feel like the sponsor part is relevant as well.

I love rain so much you can't believe it. Me and my sister in a rainy day just think there this day was the best in our life! You helped me so much with this video to make a nice "Rain house" I Wrilly Apprisiate your work.

This was simply wonderful and refreshing; very well done. Thank you and please keep it up

I live just below the border from you. Listening to you talk about this really drove home how environment shapes our thinking. I do understand why you would have thought about this.

your videos challenge me to think about space and how i interact with it in new ways, great stuff

Born and raised in southern Peru, I've always loved the rain because of how rare it is here; everything is pretty dry. I'm sure things are very different for you folks in BC 😂😂😂

Can't wait to see the day you build your dream home! If there is such a plan in your mind.

Frank Llyod Wright using those chains dovetails into the architecture in such a subtle fashion, like when there is no rain you might say What the hell, why this? But during the rain when it does its magic like that, its becomes a specific memory for the owners about the house. One thing they will never forget! I had this epiphany about some designs that finds their way into the people's memories. Really inspiring stuff.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating, there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Possibly my favorite video of yours. Thanks for doing this topic.

I loved your lecturing! Now I want to study design strategies more! ❤️

I always get motivated to do my tasks when it's raining like sitting on a chair with ur table beside the window and the rain drops? You can hear them slightly while sipping a hot coffee, that's one of best experience As a future architect student (g12 student currently) I'd like to design houses that both the environment and the house can have a rhythmic design with respect to the nature such as the rain

this video was amazing! feeling inspired

me too i love rain. it is my closet freind from my soul....thanks for sharing

Awesome hatching/shading technique !

I've fallen in love with this channel

I’ve never even thought about these things before. Thank you

i love the rain

I really enjoyed also this video. The delicate relationships, in architecture, between the wet and the dry, the hot and the cold are much more than technical topics, they are truly inspirational. Thank you. Did you visit the Palmer house in Ann arbor, during your trips?

Such a great perspective on the rain & how gravity can totally effect our perspective & inspiration!! I am a welder & machinist as i've mentioned before & i am trying to break into a new career of DevOps * web3.0/4.0. So learning how to find inspiration as well as novelty & information overflow as you have taught us in previous videos has really helped me, literally!!! I really appreciate you're artistic view as an architect & as a innovator! Your RU-vid has quickly become my favorite channel as of late! I appreciate you sharing you're case studies as well as your previous works for they really help quid me into a new uncharted territory!!! I really do look up you & your professional perspective!

Beautifully made and inspiring video Dami 💚

Hey dami! I love your channel, I love your videos so much, they are so peaceful yet so informative. I really have a dream of becoming an architect just like you. Will you please show us how was your journey frm school to becoming an architect or just sharing your experiences, it will be so inspiring for students like us to listen your story 😄❤️!

I like the series revolving around a particular architect it kinda helps some continuity between the concepts. The way design of a building radiates into the landscape seems like a really fundamental concept. Also as someone that wants to learn how to sketch concepts and design I was struck when you took an ink drawing and a yellow marker and visualized warmth radiating into a room maybe that’s basic but 🤷‍♂️

Great Vlog as usual Demi. keep it up

this was so good!

Thank you

The chain thingy is very common here in Brazil, I wonder if it's because of the sizeable japanese community here! I always loved to watch them become waterfalls when it rained.

Hi there Dami, how are you doing over there? And, have just watched/listened to the first few mins of this video from you. I like rainfall too, but, not floods that it might bring (for us over here, floods happen almost every rainy season). Thanks for this, I'm no architect, but I can relate with liking the sound of mid-light rainfall (not torrential).

This is a great subject! Very good research and presentation.

The Granada courtyard made me go “whoa”!

Another great video Dami, probably your best! I would love to see a video on your FLW trek.

Greetings Dami ! Always a wonderful time viewing your often insightful videos. You are an interesting, intelligent, charming, fun, bright, attractive, adventurous, skilled, talented individual. Please take the comment/compliment strictly as a pleasant observation. :) I too took a road trip journey over several years to the variety of Frank Lloyd Wright brilliance and beautiful architecture. For I was inspired by him--as I grew up in Chicago and Oak Park Illinois--and even from my adolescence (which was quite some time ago as I have recently "entered my 70's! Who Knew?!) I somehow knew his creations were unlike any others. Extraordinary! And they inspired ME to make an attempt at becoming an architect! Sadly, that was not to be. For though I was an excellent draftsman--all I wanted to do was try to recreate/emulate Frank Lloyd Wright...with a bit of Louis Sullivan and Daniel Burnham mixed in. My instructors, in my sophomore year at University, eventually had to tell me that I needed my OWN voice, my OWN imagination! And back then, all I could think to myself was: "Why"?!? Frank Lloyd Wright was the master of architecture and I wanted to "follow in his footsteps--unfortunately, a bit TOO closely. I was eventually advised to consider finding another path of study/career. I was asked not to enroll for my Junior year--there were other gifted students who could use a seat. I was crushed, but of course--in the long run, they were correct. So, I found photography and have been one off and on for the last 45 years! It also imbues me. And though influenced by hundreds of others, and dozens of the true Masters in many forms/schools of Photography (architectural, fine art, fashion, landscape, portrait, et al) there at least I discovered my own "eye"! Happily. All this brought up oh somewhat in the way of an introduction...to then let you know why I am including two links to videos here on You Tube. I would not be at all surprised if you have of course seen them--but if not, they are quite interesting and insightful. Oh, on Frank Lloyd Wright, of course. A shared fascination. Enjoy them if not yet viewed. Much more to say, but it will keep. This was just my way of "getting acquainted" I hope so, that we might be doing that, and that you don't mind I didn't intrude. Keep on going and stay inspired! I am duly impressed by what your are, and continuing to attempt to accomplish. Building with quality and compassion and love of nature and humanity is a true noble calling!! HUGS! And I adore the rain! Oh, and btw...did I mention that I'm a "general neutral" crossdresser?! Silly me for almost forgetting. Stay safe and well. PS: and don't let any of the "nay-sayers" get you down or wear you out! You GO Girlfriend!!!! Ahh...and this is my Instagram link...just on the chance you might consider view some of my photography. You'll like it. :) instagram.com/veemichaelsphoto/ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-W8EABJrMplY.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DeKzIZAKG3E.html

ma'am, i love all your topics and theories in design, can u make content about design strategies for tropical climates

Heyy Dani I really appreciate your content and work

You're a pretty good artist Dami.

Love these : )

So gorgeous I can listen to you all day everyday

This video makes me wish I was a an architect, so creative

design strategies with windows for enjoying the tropical weather in asian countries pls thank you for explaining the strategy with full-packed content matched with one of the best aesthetics.

As a programer myself, I love the rain as well, it is my best time ever! Love the video, and the audio is spot on!!!! Hehehehe, give us the sauce, what microphone is this? Would love to get one myself as well!

Very interesting topic. Often houses and buildings are not built with incorporating the weather.

You motivate me a lot THANK YOU ❤️

One way to enjoy it is to be a lazy gardner. When it rains I feel like yes! I will not have to water today.

More design strategies please! Thx :)

i hecking love cost co

Uggh i wish it rained more here in LA at sci-arc

Tbh u make great vidz

나 이 언니 좋아하네..❤️🙆‍♀️

I inspire to become an architect! , where should i start practicing in drawing?

Great video! I dig it. A couple of pieces of feedback: I found myself rotating my neck a bunch to view your drawings during the video. Is there a way to view them straight on? Also, I view RU-vid primarily on my TV, so pointing to the side as in "I'll leave this video here " means nothing to me because videos don't appear there for me.

Rain is the best

are you a sound artist Yes I am I love to here your voice to work, learn, exercise thanks

Hello Dami, This is is probably my favourite of all your videos so far. Thank you 🙏

what about the architecture of Dullis airport

COULD YOU MAKE A PLAY ON YOUR WORKFLOW IN NOTION SOFTWARE? THAT WOULD BE CONTRIBUTIVE TO OUR ARCHITECTURE LEARNERS FOR ORGANIZING THE SYMPHONY AND WORKFLOW.

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Love your drawings, do you consider giving some drawing classes?😊❤️

There should be a Homeless 101 course in architecture curriculum to improve everyone’s design skill set.s But camping is actually close 😂

I love your videos! Do you read books or magazines on the toilet? I look forward to your future uploads very much😊😊

I you like rain, you should move to my city. It is raining more than 200 days a year (and with an average of 78.54 hours of sun per month). And with a lot of wind.

I also aspire to be an architect

i love you

dam. I tried to get a pencil with your discount code but at checkout, it was USD plus the shipping was more than the price of the pencil;-(( was hoping to support you and a local retailer but they are in Texas so its cheaper to get Staedler from amazon boo

🥺💬 Nice drawings and reflection of colors and shadow.

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Wright took leaking way to seriously by exposing falling water house to rain a little too much 🤭😂

If I had the money I would love it if you were consulting my dream home 🥰

I'm researching your videos because I want to make a similar style of content - so did you ever notice the shot at 2:49? Lolol :)

Wouldn’t a south facing reading room damage your books?

I'M 3 HOURS LATE NOOO

I think when you become a very succesful architect in your mid to late 50’s, you would make a great architecture teacher! Have you thought about it..?

@Damilee I believe you have a great voice . Can you please look after yourself with 8hr sleep and some kind of lozenge for your throat. I can totally tell/hear when you’re deprived of both ❤

Does this apply for the third world countries ???

Hi Dami ,how are you doing ,i wanna be architect ,i liked your video that told me what to expect goong into this ,thanks ,that was good ,Go Dami

u look exhausted get some rest dear!