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15/06/2026

Tur House in FRAME 166 as part of their issue on ‘Renewal vs Heritage’
Thanks to Floor Kuitert , Anouk Haegens and the team at Frame for the continued support of the practice and our work
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04/05/2026

Tholos House
A full refurbishment of an existing house in Cambridge, England — named after its extension. Four load-bearing stone columns define the new volume, two of which are inhabitable, drawing on the ancient tradition of circular gathering spaces in Greek antiquity.
The clients had the confidence to push this idea, and the project is better for it. Detailed design is well underway with a great team — looking forward to getting it on site.
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28/04/2026

Weathering beautifully.
Brownstone, sandstone, printed stone .

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21/04/2026

Some exploratory images of a façade that combines expressive, permanent structural elements with more standardized infill components designed for replacement.

27/03/2026

Digital Rocks III
A limit run of objects I designed for to help them raise money for a good cause.
What is a ‘digital rock’? Or in what way might this phrase, often used as a dismissive
critique of emerging movements in art and architecture, be subverted to become a
productive way to consider ecology today? A rock is a naturally occurring solid mass or
aggregate of one or more minerals or organic matter. ‘digital rocks’ explore a
computational design process that aggregates seemingly disparate qualities into a
coherent, solid object. In these ‘rocks’, the goal is not to reproduce geology as form, but to
explore the ambiguity of our contemporary, ecological ground, between what is natural and
what is artifactual, and to provoke questions surrounding the relationship between the
digital and physical worlds.

10/02/2026

Corbel house 2025
This house is an adaptive reuse project where we turned an existing mid-20th century home into a passivhaus. The exterior is redesigned with a thickened brick envelope to passively shade the interior during the summer months. This mass is carved by solar analysis, giving the house its characterful brick corbels. The project leaves many of the original materials exposed internally and embellishes it with custom built joinery and our own furniture.
If you’re curious to see more , go check out the practice I run out of the UK with Adam Leigh-Brown
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20/01/2026

Tùr House , newly constructed.
In order to render the temporal aspect of the project, I worked with .eu to show the building not only as a glistening new build, but also to imagine the building many, many years in the future as the forest had grown around it and the weathering had taken hold.

14/01/2026

In contrast to the familiar image of the transparent glass house in nature, Tùr House proposes a quieter, more introspective domestic environment. In this endeavour, it avoids returning to minimalism, instead valuing qualities of solidity, material expression, and articulation.
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11/01/2026

WEATHERING
The façade of Tùr House is conceived as a register of its biome. Ledges collect leaves and seeds, textured surfaces retain water, and material finishes accommodate staining, biological growth, and erosion.
It attempts to reframe weathering not as material degradation, but as an inevitable condition and a central subject of inquiry within contemporary environmental architecture. By designing with these processes in mind, architecture can produce alternative aesthetics that more adequately reflect our understanding of ecology today by foregrounding buildings connection with environment.
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07/01/2026

Corbel house 2025
This house is an adaptive reuse project where we turned an existing mid-20th century home into a passivhaus. The project leaves many of the original materials exposed internally and embellishes it with custom built joinery and our own furniture. The exterior is redesigned with a thickened brick envelope to passively shade the interior during the summer months. This mass is carved by solar analysis, giving the house its characterful brick corbels.
If you’re curious to see more , go check out , the practice I run out of the UK with Adam Leigh-Brown
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