Halvard
(01) Approach
Est. 2011
We build few buildings, and we build them slowly. Each one begins with a single question 
— where does the light fall at four in the afternoon, in late October?
Philosophy
Our houses are low, quiet and specific to their ground. We work with a short list of honest materials — lime plaster, board-formed concrete, charred cedar, white oak — and let the Pacific light do the rest.
Every project is led by a principal from first site visit to handover. It is why we take on so few.
(02) Selected work, 2019–2025
Full index (12)
(03) Featured
Residential — No. 01
Saltgrass House
A low courtyard house on a coastal bluff, arranged around a single old sycamore — one long room for the horizon, one quiet wing for sleep.
(04) Practice
Four disciplines, one desk
- A
Architecture
New houses, additions and small public buildings — from feasibility and coastal permitting through to site supervision.
- B
Interiors
Complete interior architecture: joinery, lighting, stone and textile schedules drawn in-house alongside the building.
- C
Landscape
Drought-tolerant coastal planting plans, courtyards and hardscape conceived with the plan, not after it.
- D
Objects
A small run of tables, lights and door furniture made with local workshops for our own projects.
(05) Have a site in mind?
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