If you’re thinking about a project, let’s talk. An initial consultation gets your aspirations, site, and budget working together.

The early stages of a project should be exciting - exploring the possibilities, understanding what’s achievable for your site and budget. Realistic numbers from the start mean the only surprises are the good ones.

If you’re thinking about a project, let’s talk. An initial consultation gets your aspirations, site, and budget working together.

The early stages of a project should be exciting - exploring the possibilities, understanding what’s achievable for your site and budget. Realistic numbers from the start mean the only surprises are the good ones.

Swipe to see what I look for in a woodland setting - the kind of analysis that happens before the first sketch. The best interventions feel inevitable because they respond to what's already there.

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I've wanted to design one since watching Swiss Family Robinson as a child. Every treehouse forces constraint, humility, lightness. The principles transfer to everything else you design.

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Contemporary architecture can learn from this intelligence. Every fold in the land suggests where a building wants to sit. Every treeline marks the windbreak that shaped settlement patterns.

This is the research that comes before the first sketch. What stories do you read in landscapes?

Traditional builders understood this instinctively - their buildings nestle into folds of the hills, turn their backs to weather, open to sun and views.