We design for the experiences you will enjoy in your home once it is finished. Our work isn’t about the object but rather about the outcome. When you hire us, we lead you through an iterative design process to craft the best home to meet your goals, ideas, and needs. The result of our work is not just a house, but rather it is a place for you to enjoy shared experiences, emotions, and memories.
We design for you and your family, your friends and relatives, and all of the people who will call that house home over the years. We design for your children and grandchildren to have a space for play and exploration, a place to learn and grow, a place of belonging and joy. We design to make you feel relaxed, comfortable, and warm. We design to make you feel welcome, safe, and secure. We design for dogs who want a space to lie next to the fire. We design for cats who wander looking for the perfect location to stretch in the sun. We design for you to experience the passing of time through light and shadows moving across the floors and walls, notches on a door frame marking growth, and the changes each season brings to the surrounding landscape.
Although the house itself is an object and of course we want it to be beautiful and functional, it is our job to design for what happens within the house throughout its lifespan; the feeling you have when you return home from a long day at work, the joy of friends gathering for a shared meal, or the relaxation that washes over you when you escape the city to your weekend getaway. It is these moments that define our work.
We don’t design objects, we design experiences. Architecture isn’t about the physical house. Our work is about what each home will do for you and all the others that will spend time there. The result of our design process is the feelings and experiences you have enjoying life in your new residence with all of your friends, family, and loved ones. These outcomes are what makes us love what we do and what makes the process of design worthwhile.
Who do we design for?
We design for all of the people who will call each house a home. We design for everything that will occupy the space over time. We design for the landscape and the environment that surrounds each home, the ecosystem we are all apart of.
What do we design for?
We design for the emotions, experiences, and memories people will enjoy within their custom homes. Our work isn’t about the object but rather the life that happens within what we create.
Rendering of the interior of the Hill House. Floor to ceiling windows connect the room to the surrounding landscape while a courtyard garden carved into the house brings light and nature deep into the interior. High ceilings and a minimalist aesthetic make the spaces feel open and bright.