Inventive Green Homes

One of our most successful modular projects, this home used prefab box modules and site-installed roof panels to give it a northwest modern look.

Our first major remodel project of an urban dwelling created a powerful structure of glulam beams to allow high-reaching windows to capture southern sunlight.

After the code changes in Seattle allowed larger backyard units, we designed a modular-option cottage with attached garage and roof deck.

Our first design to blend traditional Japanese carpentry with Western needs, we explored traditional joinery and built a team with a local timber framer.

A complex of three units surrounding a garden courtyard with masonry walls, and our first use of the “flexhouse” design concept for an ADU.

Our first geodesic dome house is an adaption of a standard shell with a second custom dome for an artificial intelligence guru. We built a team with a parametric designer to inlay a complex mathematical tiling pattern into the second dome.

Our first adaptation of an “A-frame” house reinvents it with a sloped ridge, resulting in a trapezoidal plan.

Our first Scandinavian-style house tested the boundaries of the simple concept.

This modular spec house design was our first L-shaped home and created a lovely rear-facing courtyard.

A simple, Scandinavian backyard cottage was modular built and utilized mass timber floor panels.

Adaptive reuse of a satellite receiving station (“Earth Station”) into a residence and art residency campus.

A prefab concept house utilizing timber floor slabs, roof panels, and box-modules.

This is a concept house for the 21st century that creates a main unit and accompanying ADU, both with street level frontage.

A high-performing backyard cottage filled with natural light.

High-performing backyard cottage prioritizing solar exposure.