A one-room weekend house under a long roof, open to the clearing on the side where the evening sun goes down.
- Type
- Houses
- Place
- Surrey Hills, UK
- Area
- 142 m²
- Status
- Finished
Architecture and interiors
Rooms that know where the sun is.
A small studio drawing houses, homes and public rooms around one thing everybody shares: daylight.
See the workThe studio
We start every project by watching the light for a whole day.
Before a single line, we sit on the site from first light to dusk. Where the morning lands, where the afternoon gets too hot, which corner stays bright in winter. Then we draw rooms that follow it, so the people inside feel the time of day without looking at a clock.
About the studio
Local stone walls stepping down the slope, so every bedroom gets the morning and the terrace keeps the shade at noon.
- Type
- Houses
- Place
- Muğla, Türkiye
- Area
- 310 m²
- Status
- Finished
Twelve family homes with steep white gables, turned so each garden gets the afternoon sun.
- Type
- Housing
- Place
- Haarlem, NL
- Area
- 12 homes
- Status
- Finished
Thirty-eight affordable homes in warm brick, with deep window reveals that throw a long shadow in summer.
- Type
- Housing
- Place
- Leiden, NL
- Area
- 38 homes
- Status
- Finished
A public library lit from the north all day, with reading terraces that step towards the big windows.
- Type
- Culture
- Place
- Aarhus, DK
- Area
- 2,400 m²
- Status
- Finished
How we work
One project, one long day.
- 07:00Listen
- 10:00Sketch
- 13:00Model
- 16:00Build
- 19:00Live in
01 / 07:00
Listen
A morning on site with you. We listen to how you live or work, and watch where the light comes from.
02 / 10:00
Sketch
Loose drawings and sun studies. Three directions on paper, so you can choose with your hands, not with jargon.
03 / 13:00
Model
A card model under a lamp that moves like the sun. You see every room at every hour before it costs a brick.
04 / 16:00
Build
Drawings for permits and builders, and one of us on site every week until the roof is on.
05 / 19:00
Live in
We come back after the first year, at dusk, to see what the house became. Small fixes are on us.
19
years of practice
64
buildings finished
11
people in the studio
7
design awards
Who draws
“A good room changes its mood four times a day. We only draw the walls that let it.”Meet the studio
