# posts

title: The Meridian House
slug: meridian-house
cover_image: https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1600596542815-ffad4c1539a9?w=1200&q=80
post_type: project
status: published
tags: ["residential","coastal","minimalist"]
created_at: 2026-05-23 05:31:22
updated_at: 2026-05-23 05:31:22
excerpt:
  A minimalist residence perched on a coastal cliff, where the boundary between architecture and landscape dissolves.

content:
  <p>The Meridian House represents our most ambitious residential commission. Set on a rocky promontory overlooking the Pacific, the structure is conceived as a series of interlocking volumes that frame specific views while creating protected outdoor spaces.</p><p>The primary material palette — board-formed concrete, weathered steel, and locally sourced stone — responds directly to the geological character of the site. Inside, the spatial sequence unfolds from compression to release, moving from a low entrance gallery into the double-height living space that opens dramatically toward the ocean.</p><p>Sustainability was integrated from the earliest stages of design. Passive solar strategies, natural ventilation, and a rooftop photovoltaic array ensure the house operates with minimal environmental impact throughout the year.</p>


title: Obsidian Tower
slug: obsidian-tower
cover_image: https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1486325212027-8081e485255e?w=1200&q=80
post_type: project
status: published
tags: ["commercial","tower","urban"]
created_at: 2026-05-23 05:31:22
updated_at: 2026-05-23 05:31:22
excerpt:
  A 42-story mixed-use tower that redefines the downtown skyline through its faceted dark glass facade.

content:
  <p>The Obsidian Tower emerges from a complex urban site at the intersection of three distinct neighborhood fabrics. Our response was to create a building that is simultaneously contextual and iconic — one that acknowledges its surroundings while asserting a clear architectural identity.</p><p>The faceted glass facade, composed of over 8,000 individual panels, creates a constantly shifting surface that reflects the sky and city below. At night, the tower becomes a lantern, its interior light animating the crystalline exterior.</p>


title: On the Nature of Threshold Spaces
slug: nature-of-threshold-spaces
cover_image: https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1618221195710-dd6b41faaea6?w=1200&q=80
post_type: blog
status: published
tags: ["theory","space","japanese"]
created_at: 2026-05-23 05:31:22
updated_at: 2026-05-23 05:31:22
excerpt:
  An exploration of how transitional zones between interior and exterior define the character of architectural experience.

content:
  <p>Architecture is fundamentally about the orchestration of human experience through space. Among all spatial conditions, the threshold — that liminal zone between inside and outside, between one room and another — carries particular power.</p><p>In traditional Japanese architecture, the engawa serves as precisely this kind of mediated space: neither fully interior nor exterior, it creates a condition of heightened awareness, a place from which both realms are simultaneously perceptible. This ancient wisdom about threshold spaces remains profoundly relevant to contemporary practice.</p><p>In our recent projects, we have consistently sought to expand and enrich these transitional zones, refusing the abrupt edge in favor of a graduated sequence of spaces that prepare the body and mind for what lies ahead.</p>


