ATELIER
Architecture shaped by light, material and the way life unfolds within it.
Different places, connected by a close attention to light, material and everyday life.
A deep stone volume shelters the glazed living edge.
A house shaped around the space between its rooms. Deep stone volumes shelter a glazed living edge, making the garden part of the experience without asking every room to be completely open.
Limestone and oak frame a room that opens toward the garden.
Begin with the garden
The garden is the starting point rather than the space left over. The house gathers around it, placing a quieter landscape within the daily route from one room to the next. Openings frame planting at different distances: a close view beside a threshold, a longer view through the living space. This gives the plan a shared centre while allowing individual rooms to retain their own degree of privacy.
The low timber form follows the coastal horizon.
A low house follows the line of the coast. Its dark timber exterior and recessed glazing create a sheltered foreground to the open landscape, while oak gives the rooms within a warmer register.
An oak-lined threshold opens toward the sea.
Hold the horizon
The long, low form takes its cue from the meeting of land and sea. Rather than break the view into a series of competing gestures, the roof gathers the shared spaces beneath one measured line. Dune grasses form a soft foreground against the building’s darker skin. The composition keeps the distant horizon present, giving the house a clear relationship to the landscape before any interior detail comes into view.
Brick rooms gather around a shared planted courtyard.
A brick workshop becomes a framework for working, making and gathering. New openings connect its rooms through a planted courtyard, bringing precise additions into conversation with a rougher inherited shell.
A working room looks back into the garden.
Begin with what is there
The brick walls establish the rhythm of the project. Their repeated piers and tall openings offer an order to work with, rather than a condition to disguise. The design keeps that order visible while reconsidering how the spaces connect. New elements are concentrated at the openings and thresholds, allowing the larger surfaces of brick to retain their presence. The result is an approach to change that begins with close observation.
We begin with attention: to the land, the light and the people who will inhabit it. These observations become the starting point for each project.
Drawings, models and material studies make each decision visible. We develop the architecture through conversation, keeping every detail connected to the original idea.