HouseBuild

Anyone looking for an architect for their home often finds sites that read like trade magazines, with projects photographed without people, texts full of concepts and no sign of how working together actually goes.

You cannot tell where it starts, what a project costs, how long it takes before work begins or who handles permits and the building site. So choosing a studio becomes a leap in the dark.

HouseBuild is a studio that designs the empty space first and the walls after, starting from how its future owners live.

At the top, a villa at sunset carries the headline split between sky and garden. As you scroll the scene holds still, the oak door, a 3D model built in code in five parts, swings inward, warm light spills onto the path and you cross the threshold into the furnished living room. The page then introduces the studio, a gallery of houses that ends on the courtyard house, the services, the same room moving from sketch to building site to finished home, the questions and the form for a first meeting. I chose charcoal, lime plaster and terracotta, with light slab-serif headings.