Scott & Caroline designed and built The Contemporary Tiny House Holiday Retreat by hand during lockdown. A labour of love, the design combines the couple’s passion for contemporary design and interiors.
Carrying on the tradition of student-built desert shelters at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West, ‘The Loft’ was designed, constructed, and inhabited as a final year thesis project at The School of Architecture at Taliesin.
Utilizing a limited material palette, the Whidbey Dogtrot is a house that seeks to amplify the experience of living on the site through an economy of means.
Portland Homeless Family Solutions provides shelter and support services for unhoused families across the greater Portland area. Our firm was approached with their vision for the Family Village Campus
A coastal retreat for family and guests. A durable, tectonic structure enables subdued spaces that bring focus to the expansive seascape location.
The Dolphin Sands Studio, while located close to the road to minimise incursion into the site, is accessed via a path that works with the existing contours, closely wrapping a dune, to create separation and privacy.
Designed and delivered for Turner Works and Accept & Proceed, the Dutch Barn is a conversion of an existing agricultural shed into six-bedroomed accommodation located within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in the Cotswolds.
The Perch 2.0 project was conceived in 2017 when a large portion of white oak rough-sawn lumber became available to the architect.
Within the folding hills of its hinterland site, the Federal House acts as both experiential container for this place and as a conditioning object, consciously aware of its outsider status within the traditional ownership and legacy of this landscape.
Ark-shelter was asked to build a cluster of forest apartments for hotel Bjornson. The investor had a clear idea of one side oriented double cabins, placed in the surrounding of the main hotel building, which made our design solution relatively straightforward.
The house as a lair, a hideout, a shelter. A reflection which distorts and expands the garden, while confuses and protects. I can not guess the inside, a bit closer, now i can peep through the great silver oculus drilling the reflection.
A new holiday house comprising of two simple gable cabin forms at Matarangi, Coromandel. Designed within an existing clearing amongst the pine trees on their site near the beach to provide various degrees of shelter
