How can new buildings and public spaces, strongly contrasted with their traditional neighbours, contribute meaning to their site? The studio process of Interconnectivity knits proposals into sites through development of urban grain.Definitelynot postmodern contextualism (like the London National Gallery Sainsbury Wing by Venturi, for example, a partial replication of a mediocre classical building) we establish site grain as symmetries, repetitive elements, scale, pattern, and material character. The reading of grain suggests where to cut and buttress, whilst introducing bold new elements. Picture and vector programmes can be combined to simulate the existing conditions of complicated inner London territories, where the multiple existing layers are the basis for augmentation. We intend to overcome the modern tradition, which too often substituted an understanding of the local site and its social, physical, and environmental conditions with a standardized 'object' architecture. Our goal is to work 'directly' within the spontaneity of city life. Based in the richest possible design data sets, our work will leapfrog ordinary urban maps.