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Mediterranean View House is a contemporary four-bedroom villa designed around the relationship between architectural form, landscape, and framed views. Pariya Hendi, Mehdi Nasiri Pariya Hendi, Mehdi Nasiri The villa is organized across two levels, with one guest bedroom located on the ground floor and three bedrooms on the upper floor, including a private master suite. A fundamental principle of the design is to provide every bedroom with a direct and carefully framed view toward the surrounding landscape, allowing the private spaces to remain visually connected to the outdoors. Pariya Hendi, Mehdi Nasiri Pariya Hendi, Mehdi Nasiri The architectural form is developed through the combination of interconnected volumes ra... More

The project is located in Chengdu, the vibrant city known as the "Land of Abundance". However, the target clientele for this project yearns for a Nordic-style relaxation, naturalness, and restraint. Therefore, we attempt to strike a balance between "vibrancy" and "artistic sensibility": while retaining the intimate warmth of urban life, we also create a living environment that combines everyday vibrancy with artistic flair through exquisite spatial organization and artistic scene creation. PrismImage PrismImage PrismImage PrismImage The design extracts the natural, relaxed, and restrained spiritual temperament from the Nordic lifestyle, with "life show" as the narrative core. It translates daily life into spatial experi... More

In close collaboration with the client, we acted as both architect and client advisor in the development of a contemporary family residence in Roskilde. Our involvement covered the project from the initial stages through the planning and approvals process, with a particular focus on architectural quality, materiality, energy performance, and regulatory compliance. Tom Jersø Tom Jersø Tom Jersø Architectural ConsultancyFrom the outset, we advised the client on key aspects of the project, including material selection, energy efficiency, construction solutions, and overall architectural considerations. Our role was to ensure that each decision was carefully considered in relation to both the architectural v... More

The design of WULU Garden, a 6,000-square-meter space in a mountain foothill in Lijiang, represents a profound exploration of integrating human-made spaces with pristine nature.Unlike urban landscapes, it blends seamlessly into nature, merging with the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, streams, and native woodlands. The core philosophy is a harmonious dialogue between the artificial and the natural. Rather than imposing a rigid design, the landscape is woven into the site. The original canal was preserved and restored to mimic a mountain stream, blurring the boundaries of the garden. The space is organized into three areas structured around the land's elevation and relationship with nearby architecture. Caption Caption Caption C... More

Some of the best heritage home reworkings just fit right in. There’s a nod to modern lifestyles in planning and building performance, but you can’t always point to something and say ‘that’s new’. For our studio, which has completed multiple villa, bungalow and modern heritage renovation projects, success lies in careful planning plus colour, materiality and strong connections, inside and out. Caption Caption Caption Caption Case in point, Amber Light, where the starting point, as it often is, was the existing heritage of the villa. This particular example was a rare specimen with elevated heritage detailing, including ornate Corinthian order mini-columns to the veranda and hallway-length da... More

A sleek and futuristic studio is furnished with spaces that evoke a little luxury.In the intensely black and white spaces required of a studio, we saw something of the futurism, or maybe retrofuturism, of a Stanley Kubrick set. A place that could be ideally complemented with more lush (and more blush) spaces with a more luxurious tactility. Caption Caption A 10m wide cyclorama – a sleek white wall with no apparent beginning or end – sits under a pitch-black ceiling. The colour detail is drawn across to the window framing, electrical outlets, lighting racks, all carefully ordered with respect to grids and proximity, in a gestalt, ‘whole of design’ system, and connected to the outside world through a careful... More

Located on a waterfront site in Akaroa, this house combines contemporary design with a sensitivity to the scale and aesthetic of the existing built fabric. The design employs a series of steep gables, with perpendicular window proportions and vernacular materials evoking a sense of regional familiarity without any historical reproduction. The key design move is to break the building into a series of discrete steeply pitched gabled roof that recede and push forward. This creates the look of a number of modestly sized buildings and maintains the intimate, mostly small scale built form of Akaroa. It is the design intent that from a distance or when walking by on the waterfront the house will appear as a series of ad-hoc gabled buildings; each... More

This beautifully crafted timber dwelling sits on a site alongside an estuarine tendril of the Omaha River. The house is a three-part play, comprised of two separate wings, running north to south, connected by a boardwalk running east to west with a gabled guest wing. The elongated boardwalk is a key organising device to provide a variety of outdoor spaces to take advantage of the sun’s changing movements. Caption Caption Caption Caption Caption The house derives its outer form from the gabled barn of the rural vernacular, however the architectural language of traditional timber construction has been abstracted and extended. The architects chose to celebrate the aesthetic, tectonic and weathering possibilities... More