Winter 2026 – Newsletter
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SHELTER
Shelter in SHLTR
We’re honored to share that our project, the Sundial House in Clarendon Heights, has been featured in SHLTR Magazine.
Perched on a hillside, the home unfolds with light, daily rhythms, and the quiet passage of time. Double-height spaces, layered skylights, and a gently curving stair create moments of pause, while materials were chosen to age gracefully with the family who calls it home.
Read more about the project and its story
Contractor: Oak Leaf Construction
Interior Design: FQ Designs Group
Lighting Consultant: Tucci Lighting
Metal Fabricators: Lust Design Fabricate
Muralist: Joset Medina
Audio Visual: MWA
Structural Engineering: Townsend Brown CE LEED
Landscape Designer: ORCA
Survey: Foresight
Geotechnical: ROMIG
Civil Engineering: Tarnoff Engineering
GreenRater: Healthier Dwelling
Greywater: DIG Coop
Historical Analysis: Anna Rose
[Photo 1 & 2: By HENRY GAO]
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COMMUNITY
Shaker Herb House: Cultivation and Continuity
For a time, we laid down our tools. In a challenging funding climate, work on the Herb House at Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village paused—but the rhythms of the garden persisted, quietly shaping the land.
The Herb House is deeply connected to living Shaker soil, where herbs are planted, tended, dried, and prepared for use. Every beam, floorboard, and workspace reflects a continuity of care, linking the cycles of cultivation and daily practice to the long history of this remarkable community.
This project is not a static preservation effort; it is an ongoing practice of stewardship. Architecture here supports life in motion, honoring the cycles of growth, labor, and seasonality that have shaped the land for generations.
We are grateful to see this work continuing, fostering both historical understanding and a living connection to the land.
[Photo 3: SABBATHDAY LAKE SHAKER VILLAGE]
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research
Building as Living Inquiry
We’re beginning a new collaboration with 10th Floor co-founder, Jerome Tavé.
10th Floor operates at the intersection of art, ecology, and regenerative systems. Jerome’s recent work centers fungi as both material research and cultural narrative.
For Jerome, home and workshop are about constructing an environment for inquiry, a space conceived as ecosystem. Material experimentation, adaptive infrastructure, and spatial flexibility will support evolving modes of making.
We invite you to follow along as this research-driven project takes shape.
[Photo 4 & 5: Jerome Tavé & Mark myers at first meeting]
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culture
Coexistence in Design
The Year of the Fire Horse brought excitement, energy and momentum. Historically, Fire Horse years also carry upheaval. As a horse keeper, a hot horse is powerful and without space, care, and direction, that power can become destructive.
Today’s war, climate instability, conflict, and strained social systems are inseparable from how we shape land, cities, resources, and infrastructure. The built environment is not neutral; it shapes how societies thrive, live together, and relate to the living systems we are part of.
As architects, our work is to imagine futures that do not yet exist and to move toward them even when the path runs through upheaval. Fire clears the ground. What follows depends on where we guide the regrowth.
[Photo 6: zelia curtiss at EMBERRIDGE EQUESTRIAN CENTER]
