03 / Journal

Notes from the studio

Field notes on healthier materials, adaptable rooms and homes designed to hold their social, emotional and material value over time.

A daylight-filled living room in Z Residence with an open floor and furniture arranged for different ways of gathering
01 / Space

The room that can change

Across four homes and two climates, adaptability becomes the most durable form of sustainability.

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02 / Personal

The coordinates of home

Why a practice that lives between Chengdu and New York measures every room twice — once in meters, once in habits.

Detail of Z Residence — quiet materials chosen to age well
03 / Space

Designing for the long stay

Aging-in-place is not a category of products. It is a set of quiet decisions made twenty years early.

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04 / Materials

Materials before moodboards

A project that starts from images borrows its feelings. A project that starts from materials grows its own.

Grey-veined marble tabletop above woven wool dining chairs
05 / Materials

Veined marble

Grey veining that reads as movement without ever becoming pattern — and why we pair it with woven wool.

Pale oak counter meeting a dark veined stone island
06 / Materials

Pale oak & dark stone

A kitchen needs one material that forgives and one that anchors. Where they meet, craft shows.

Striped sheer curtain pooling lightly over a pale oak floor
07 / Materials

Sheer linen & oak floor

The cheapest renovation a room can get is better light, filtered.