Explore the spaces between everyday life and architecture.
31 patterns to explore
A deep reveal with room to read, rest and look out.
A timber gallery between home and courtyard.
Wraparound glazing and a continuous timber sill.
Balance homes, gardens, paths and passing traffic.
A raised timber dwelling at the edge of the water.
Rooms and shaded galleries around water and planting.
A timber veranda connecting room and garden.
Shuttered facades, stepped passages and café squares.
Brick housing shaped by bays, balconies and deep openings.
A compact town of sloping streets and shared squares.
Georgian sash-window rhythm or Victorian bays and gables.
Sculpted gables, tall windows and an optional row of canal-side neighbours.
A cobbled shopping hill with painted shopfronts and stone façades.
Timber homes on pontoons, roof terraces and a shared jetty over water.
Bibury-inspired stone cottages, irregular gables, cottage gardens and a mill stream.
Kyoto shopfronts, timber lattices and tiled eaves stepping up a stone lane.
A narrow Kyoto townhouse with a deep sequence of rooms, passage and courtyard gardens.
A Saint-Pons-de-Mauchiens circulade: stone houses, concentric lanes, a summit church and vineyards.
Carriage-house doors, sash windows and climbing gardens along a shared cobbled lane.
Whitewashed arcades, terracotta roofs and a flowering patio with a central fountain.
A Cotswold stone town today. Explore deep burgage plots, rear courts and gardens across different times and places.
An earthen desert house with a badgir wind tower, shaded courtyard and a cutaway airflow study.
Vrångö (Vrango), Sweden: winding car-free lanes, electric cargo bikes, clustered timber houses and a rocky old harbour.
A timber cabin among the trees, with a sheltered deck, braced stilts and a bridge through the canopy.
Asturias, Spain: a large central barn, terracotta roofs, winding lanes and clustered stone houses surrounded by green mountain pasture.
Iceland: connected grass roofs, dark timber gables and thick stone and earth walls nestled beneath a green hillside.
A narrow timber tower with a corrugated metal roof, raised slatted gallery and stone base.
A ring of shuttered houses, terracotta roofs and narrow passages around a shared oval square.
Tuscany, Italy: an enclosed stone piazza, stepped communal well, terracotta roofs and medieval towers above cafe-lined edges.
Compare bored piles, screw piles and pads beneath a house around a tree. Explore floor height, ground beams, pile heads, bracing and root zones.
A timber post on a boulder with a stainless pin, or on one of five steel shoes. Turn the joint in 3D or cut it through the middle to see the pin, plates and bolts inside.
