Our clients, a couple with 3 children, had purchased a triangular, wooded, corner lot on high ground in Amagansett, NY and contacted us to explore means of building a house for their summer and year-round-weekend use.
The Valentine House is an abstract composition of folding wall and roof planes exploring the tensions of light and dark, solid and void, protection and exposition – yet nevertheless crafted with a thoroughly domestic program in mind.
Tucked away behind the trees, the Chester house features a cedar platform that serves as a porch and or an outdoor room with no walls – an unusual, yet seemingly conventional element that establishes a domestic space within the landscape.
Inspired by the works of artist Robert Kelly, the Vista Drive Pavilion is a composition of solids and voids enjoying varying levels of transparency. The house is a charcoal trapezoid capped with a unique 5-ridge metal roof.
This beautiful property located in Kfar Masaryk, a Kibbutz in the western Galilee, was planned by architect Adi Aronov as a pastoral and inspirational home that reflects the transformation that the Kibbutz community and movement are going through.
When the clients approached Michele Lorenz, Ashby Collective, to reinvent their Lake Austin waterfront home they conveyed the importance of creating a refuge that allowed for a multitude of outdoor spaces.
RE Capital approached Oktra to redevelop The Corner Building, an eight-storey landmark building in Farringdon. The landlord was looking for a turnkey solution to upgrade the property with the goal of attracting traditionally West End tenants to the Farringdon area.
The Goatbarn Lane House is net-zero electric, operating with a 4kW photo-voltaic array located on the roof. High efficiency electric appliances, 100% LED lighting on dimmers
