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Buildings


We site, design, and build:
  • Timber framed outbuildings
  • Barns and working buildings
  • Homes
  • Outdoor classrooms, pergolas, arbors, trellises
  • Wood-fired saunas
  • Outdoor showers/bathing spaces
  • Patios, retaining walls, terraces
  • Building-integrated greenhouses


We utilize the following construction methods:
  • Timber framing - in the round and milled
  • Super insulation
  • Slate roofing
  • Passive solar
  • Solar thermal/Solar PV/Active solar heating
  • Portable saw milling
  • Horse logging


We also provide ecological design and site integration consulting to homeowners, campus managers, builders and architects on:
  • Passive solar heating and daylighting
  • L.E.E.D.
  • Building visual integration/sightline management
  • Entry experiences
  • Indoor air quality - I.A.Q.
  • Local materials use
  • Interior plantscaping
  • Daylighting sensitivity such as sunrise/sunset and nighttime sky visibility
  • Wildlife impacts
  • Interior-exterior landscape connectivity
  • Programming integration, learnability, healability
  • Site-harvesting of building materials via horse logging, stone collection, etc.


We work independently on small scale projects and as ecological design consultants aiding architectural design firms on larger scale projects.
Our process integrates the built with the biological at all levels.

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