Design is a service in its fullest sense.
We support bringing your idea to life so it benefits what matters most to you. Our design process starts with your values, goals, and resources. It works toward meaningful, realistic outcomes.
Those outcomes might be natural buildings, earthships, tree houses, high-performance homes, playgrounds, tinies, healthy homes, spiritual spaces, artwork — or something in between.
You might even find that there’s no need to build something new.
We often work with biogenic materials like straw bale, hempcrete, timber, light straw clay, woodchip clay (chip-and-slip), and cellulose. We also work with earthen materials like rammed earth, cob, and adobe, and up-cycled materials.
Our services support the creation of generative spaces that benefit the systems they inhabit.
Structural & Building Enclosure Engineering
Engineering shapes the spaces we create. It also shapes the systems they affect every day — natural, social, and spiritual. Engineers steward many of the decisions that shape those relationships. The earlier our perspective becomes part of your project, the more it empowers you to shape the outcome.
This is the work we do every day. We open the process to you: providing structural and enclosure analysis, design, engineered drawings, and construction services.
Building Design
We don’t just engineer — we also design, from your napkin sketches (or Lego models) to permit-ready drawings.
Many projects begin here. We often lead the design and require few additional consultants.
This includes concepting, navigating regulations, developing a programme, exploring massing, and producing drawings. We coordinate with others as needed.
Advisory & Review
When you need direction or input on a project, we help move it forward.
We provide conceptual guidance, Peer and Independent Review, and holistic building advice. That might mean brainstorming together or offering a second set of eyes.
We also support strategizing, research and development, and prototyping.
Education
Sharing knowledge is vital for our work to continue beyond us. Teaching and mentorship are central to the engineering profession. When it is shared, others can take it further.
We share what we know through presentations, workshops, writing, videos, and other forms of learning.