House No. 07
A single-storey house folded around a walled garden, built in lime-washed masonry.
Spaces shaped by light, material and intention.
Haven is a studio of eleven people designing houses, cultural spaces and the objects that fill them. We work slowly, with a narrow palette of materials, and stay with a project from the first site walk to the day the doors open.
We design spaces that feel inevitable.
Good buildings rarely announce themselves. They hold a temperature, a quality of light and a set of proportions that make the room feel as though it could not have been arranged any other way.
That result comes from restraint rather than invention. We work with a narrow palette of materials, resolve details early, and spend the remaining time removing everything the project does not need.
Read more about HavenFive ways of working, usually combined.
All servicesArchitecture
New buildings and substantial reworkings, from first sketch through to the last site visit.
Interior Design
Rooms resolved to the millimetre — surfaces, joinery, light and the way a hand meets a door.
Spatial Strategy
Work that happens before drawings: briefs, capacity, sequence and the shape of a programme.
Furniture & Objects
Pieces made for a specific room, developed with the makers who will build them.
Art Direction
How a finished space is photographed, described and remembered.
Stone Courtyard
A pavilion for a regional collection of ceramics, placed at the edge of a working farm. Four walls of stacked schist define a courtyard; the exhibition rooms occupy two of its sides. The remaining sides are left open to the field.
View projectThe practice in numbers
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