https://perpetuaforma.com Architecture, interior, furniture, products and photography. en https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/interior/actual-office-cherry-orchard https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/interior/actual-office-cherry-orchard Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:29:47 GMT Actual Office has completed the fit-out of a series of shared living spaces in South London, defined by a simple but strong design idea and curated material palette that balances warmth, durability, and spatial clarity. Collaborating with a dynamic client, Actual Office established a unified design vision and applied it to a series of interconnected shell spaces, transforming them into a refined Jonathan Maguire Interior https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/stockliacker-school-complex https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/stockliacker-school-complex Sat, 08 Aug 2026 10:37:33 GMT The Stöckliacker school complex in Lohn-Ammannsegg is defined by two fixed conditions: a large open space at its centre, and a site that slopes gently across it. Haller Gut Architekten's new building closes a gap in the complex, set between the existing double kindergarten and a multipurpose hall along Friedhofstrasse. Generous distances to the neighbouring school and residential buildings, togeth Perpetua Forma Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/private-house-in-la-claye https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/private-house-in-la-claye Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:49:39 GMT The plot had been left over for as long as anyone could remember: a corner of the village that once belonged to the property next door and served it as kitchen garden and chicken run. What remained on it — a 25 m² chicken coop and a well said to be among the most productive in La Claye — was not cleared to make room for the house. atelier iso took both as fixed points, and the position of the buil ARTHUR BOURGEOIS LACARRA Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/patchwork-architecture-house-for-camping https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/patchwork-architecture-house-for-camping Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:36:06 GMT House for Camping sits on the boundary of Abel Tasman National Park, within a regenerating beech-podocarp forest of mature kānuka. Rather than clear new ground, Patchwork Architecture set the building inside an existing clearing and organised it as a courtyard type — pushing the structure to the forest edge and leaving the centre as a sun-filled outdoor room. The house is conceived as a series of Perpetua Forma Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/sandy-rendel-monkton https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/sandy-rendel-monkton Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:57:19 GMT Sandy Rendel Architects has completed a new four-bedroom house on a brownfield plot within the modern fringe of the historic village of Cuckfield, West Sussex, replacing a dilapidated bungalow that had been poorly extended since the 1970s and had reached the end of its serviceable life. The site is a narrow, 70-metre-long plot behind the high street, backing onto the old village brick fields with Perpetua Forma Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/conversion-of-a-1940s-workers-villa https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/conversion-of-a-1940s-workers-villa Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:25:09 GMT The house belongs to a protected complex of identical villas built in the 1940s for workers of the national railway — a repeated type whose form cannot be freely altered. It originally held a single inhabitable floor above a lower level of cellar and garage, each reached independently from the outside. The conversion treats that lower level not as ancillary space but as a second full register of t Samir Alaoui Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/samir-alaoui-architectes-mixed-use-building https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/samir-alaoui-architectes-mixed-use-building Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:23:28 GMT Mixed-use building located in Forel (Lavaux), on ground that is neither quite town nor quite country — an activity zone at the edge of the agricultural area. Its programme answers that in-between condition directly by stacking two unlike lives in one volume: industrial premises across the first two levels, two penthouse apartments above. Rather than reconcile the two into a single character, the p Samir Alaoui Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/a-courtyard-house https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/a-courtyard-house Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:22:09 GMT A Courtyard House sets out to bring the garden inside, and takes its brief almost literally: a house and garden its owners intend to be able to live in their whole life. That single condition — long-term accessibility held in view from the start — reorganises the plan around difference rather than a single shared centre of gravity. The two main occupants, one an artist and one in business, and bot Perpetua Forma Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/kraft-architects-white-hut https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/kraft-architects-white-hut Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:51:05 GMT WHITE HUT is the renovation of a small villa located within a holiday-home development in Kita-Karuizawa, Japan, originally established during the country’s period of rapid economic growth. Over the course of half a century, a discrepancy emerged between the memory of development inscribed in the land and the time accumulated by the surrounding forest. The project seeks to reconstruct, through min HIRARI SATO Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/kraft-architects-an-unfinished-house https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/kraft-architects-an-unfinished-house Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:36:09 GMT An Unfinished House — Reorganising the Residue of the Suburbs Located in the suburban outskirts of Isesaki City, Gunma Prefecture, this single-storey wooden house stands on a parcel of land that had been left behind in the process of suburban development. After surrounding plots were subdivided and sold, the site became landlocked and excluded from formal market circulation. Rather than treating t HIRARI SATO Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/Juan-Bechini-Pilates-Pavilion https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/Juan-Bechini-Pilates-Pavilion Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:04:58 GMT The Pilates Pavilion sets a semi-public program inside a private garden and asks how far a small building can open before it stops being a room. Rather than a sealed box dropped onto the lawn, the studio is assembled from a series of walls that fragment and structure the space, with a single continuous roof laid over them to define the interior. The governing move is one of definition without enc Perpetua Forma Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/interior/Anastasiou-Misseri-apartment-201 https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/interior/Anastasiou-Misseri-apartment-201 Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:03:50 GMT Anastasiou Misseri reworks an enclosed three-bedroom apartment into a luminous two-bedroom residence, where built-in architecture and a restrained material palette carry a single, continuous narrative. Inside an early-2000s apartment block, Anastasiou Misseri took on a dark, enclosed three-bedroom apartment whose common areas had been left fragmented. The renovation focused on reorganising those Stephanie Misseri Interior https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/atelier-ajo-farmhouse-renovation https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/atelier-ajo-farmhouse-renovation Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:36:26 GMT The project involves the rehabilitation of a former farmhouse building that had long stood vacant. Originally used to accommodate agricultural workers, it forms part of a group of structures arranged around a central courtyard. The clients’ primary ambition was to transform this place into a welcoming retreat where family and friends could gather and spend weekends together. The design seeks to e Jose Roldan Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/chamboirat https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/chamboirat Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:03:44 GMT This project aimed to transform an ancient farmhouse into a family home in Chamboirat, a small hamlet in the Auvergne countryside. This two-century-old barn was a common rural heritage in this part of France. Once inside, however, it revealed a remarkable material presence: 9-metre-high stone masonry walls, an impressive timber frame, generous volumes... It became clear that our intervention shoul Cove Architectes Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/interior/Swop-South-Melbourne https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/interior/Swop-South-Melbourne Sat, 30 May 2026 19:39:52 GMT Swop South Melbourne takes the secondhand store — a typology built on volume and turnover — and slows it down. The largest outpost yet for the national resale chain, it occupies a 1938 warehouse on Clarke Street that had passed through a long sequence of uses: one of Australia's first Coca-Cola factories early on, and more recently an axe-throwing venue and a Crossfit gym. None of those left a usa perpetuaforma Interior https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/stumpy-gully-house https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/stumpy-gully-house Sat, 30 May 2026 19:08:34 GMT Stumpy Gully House begins from a question about how to build in a place that is quietly being eroded by its own popularity. Sited in the coastal hamlet of Balnarring, on the Mornington Peninsula and on unceded Boon Wurrung Country, the house responds to a street where newer dwellings sit full-width with minimum setbacks, presenting double garages to the road. Against that pattern the project — a c perpetuaforma Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/Andre-Guiraud-Lege https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/Andre-Guiraud-Lege Fri, 29 May 2026 16:02:41 GMT The triangular geometry of the plot set the terms for this family house. Rather than resist the awkward angle, the architecture absorbs it: the plan steps inward in a series of recesses, an indented figure that follows the boundary lines and, in doing so, organises the dwelling into three distinct territories — one for the children, one for the parents, and a shared collective space held between t Perpetua Forma Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/arquitectura-g-patio-house https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/arquitectura-g-patio-house Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:05:19 GMT Patio House by Arquitectura-G, located in Costa Brava, is conceived as a calm architectural response to a sloping landscape, where built form and terrain are carefully interwoven. Rather than asserting a dominant gesture, the project follows the existing contours, organizing the house as a sequence of spaces structured around a central open void. At the heart of the design lies a square courtyard Perpetua Forma Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/keshaw-mcarthur-openfield-house https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/keshaw-mcarthur-openfield-house Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:47:35 GMT At its core, Openfield House is defined by a simple proposition: what remains when architecture is reduced to its most permanent elements. The project distinguishes between what is fixed and what is temporary, imagining a future in which the lightweight components fall away, leaving behind a composition of stone objects embedded in the ground. This conceptual clarity is expressed through a series Perpetua Forma Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/bard-yersin-the-inverted-farm https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/bard-yersin-the-inverted-farm Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:40:09 GMT The Inverted Farm by BARD YERSIN architectes is a conversion project in La Bruyère, Vuisternens-devant-Romont, that transforms a typical 19th-century regional farmhouse. Originally designed to bring dwelling and agricultural functions together under a single roof, the building faced modern challenges. It was deprived of its farming use, located outside the building zone, and featured an exceptiona Perpetua Forma Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/nicolas-chaudier-la-conception-iii https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/nicolas-chaudier-la-conception-iii Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:57:39 GMT La Conception III takes its governing idea from geology rather than building convention. The project borrows the structural qualities of natural, brittle stratifications — the way layered rock organises itself and the porosity that opens up between its bands — and translates them into the order of a small building. It is a gîte touristique in La Conception, in Québec's Laurentian region, and the s Perpetua Forma Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/noto-timmerdorfer-strand https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/noto-timmerdorfer-strand Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:50:56 GMT A steep, soaring roof with a deep eave and a central dormer above the entrance: at first glance, the building evokes the image of a primitive, archetypal thatched house. Only on closer inspection does it become clear that the wide, overhanging roof shelters not just one dwelling. The striking symmetry and the doubling of several fundamental elements reveal two separate homes, divided by a wall tha Perpetua Forma Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/furniture/jonasz-lutz-exhibited-works https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/furniture/jonasz-lutz-exhibited-works Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:47:36 GMT Finnish-born designer Jonas Lutz creates objects of bold simplicity and elegant solutions, often with a tacit playfulness. His objects instantly reveal a continuous search for the novel and undiscovered. Simplicity of form is well balanced with a gentleness that invites the touch and a modesty which speaks of a deep comprehension of materials and a desire to elevate their qualities.Jonas finds ins Perpetua Forma Furniture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/malte-kloes-architekten-borna-park https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/malte-kloes-architekten-borna-park Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:44:27 GMT At Borna-Park, everyday life unfolds in close dialogue with the surrounding landscape. Meadows, open fields, and the tree-lined Pfaffneren river frame the site, but nature here is more than a scenic backdrop—it becomes the defining identity of a residential and working community. The development comprises two distinct buildings: a residential building and a workshop, both specifically designed to Perpetua Forma Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/lovell-burton-spring-hill-house https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/lovell-burton-spring-hill-house Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:40:57 GMT The site was purchased by an author seeking a tree change having lived in inner city Melbourne for many years. The dwelling is part of a larger project to re-imagine and revitalize the underworked paddock into a place of habitation, connection and reflection. The site slopes in north south direction and have been sculptured into subtly undulations from surface water that seeps through the ground f Perpetua Forma Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/tom-dowdall-eavesdrop https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/tom-dowdall-eavesdrop Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:38:39 GMT Eavesdrop is a country house set within the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in West Sussex. It was designed by practice founder Tom Dowdall as a home for his parents to enjoy in their retirement. The house sits in the grounds of their previous home, a Grade II listed Lodge house, where they had lived for more than forty years. They are both keen gardeners and had created a mag Perpetua Forma Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/nicolas-chaudier-la-conception-iv https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/nicolas-chaudier-la-conception-iv Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:34:33 GMT This project, with its sculptural language inspired by the work of Canadian artist Rolland Poulin, is an exercise that seeks to highlight the sublime qualities of the Laurentian Forest through the contrast between the building and its surroundings. The pure, monochromatic aspects of the project do not compete with the lush vegetation but rather engage in a dialogue with it. As the seasons change, Perpetua Forma Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/bast-m45 https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/bast-m45 Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:31:09 GMT M45 is located on a narrow, elongated plot sloping down toward a stream within a forested landscape. The building is positioned parallel to the site’s contour lines, allowing the terrain to be altered as little as possible and minimizing excavation. The volume follows the natural profile of the land. A mono-pitched roof accompanies the slope of the terrain, with its ridge oriented toward the ac Perpetua Forma Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/fakt-engawa https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/fakt-engawa Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:28:44 GMT The Sports Facility Ketzin is a compact, multi-use building situated between existing sports fields in Ketzin/Havel. Conceived as a shared facility for local sports clubs and schools, the project organizes its functions within a clearly defined and robust architectural structure. The design draws on the Japanese concept of the Engawa—a continuous wooden veranda that mediates between interior and Perpetua Forma Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/museums/takenaka-carpentry-tools-museum https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/museums/takenaka-carpentry-tools-museum Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:26:21 GMT The Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum, located in Kobe, Japan, is a unique museum dedicated to the craft, tools, and rich heritage of Japanese carpentry. Founded by Takenaka Corporation in 1984, this museum serves as a tribute to Japan’s millennia-old woodworking tradition, showcasing the skill and artistry of Japanese carpenters, known as daiku, whose sophisticated techniques are deeply embedded in Perpetua Forma Museums https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/studio-bright-hedge-and-arbour-house https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/studio-bright-hedge-and-arbour-house Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:20:47 GMT Set in a leafy Melbourne suburb overlooking a bushland reserve, Hedge and Arbour House by Studio Bright redefines the relationship between suburban living and landscape. Instead of presenting a conventional façade to the street, the house is shielded by a tall, sculptural hedge that forms a walled garden at the front of the site. This green threshold transforms the approach to the home and allows Perpetua Forma Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/kerstin-thompson-bundanon-art-museum-bridge https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/kerstin-thompson-bundanon-art-museum-bridge Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:47:40 GMT Situated on an 1,100-hectare property once home to artist Arthur Boyd and gifted to the Australian people, the Bundanon Art Museum & Bridge for Creative Learning repositions Bundanon as a cultural landmark — a place where art and environment meet in equal measure. The project expands Bundanon’s role as a centre for creative arts, education, research, and ideas, while making its $46.5 million Perpetua Forma Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/julius-nielsen-office-two-summerhouses-in-rageleje https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/julius-nielsen-office-two-summerhouses-in-rageleje Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:44:41 GMT Julius Nielsen OFFICE, a Copenhagen-based architectural practice, has completed two identical summerhouses in Rågeleje, Denmark. The project showcases the firm's commitment to material honesty, atmospheric sensibility, and ecological awareness. Each summerhouse spans 84 square meters and is designed with a straightforward yet thoughtful approach. Externally, the buildings are clad in vertical, un Perpetua Forma Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/trower-falvo-westgarth https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/trower-falvo-westgarth Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:40:57 GMT Designed for a young family, our Westgarth project comprises alterations and additions to an existing Edwardian style house with a typical symmetrical configuration of rooms arranged around a central entry axis. The challenge of accessing natural light from the primary southern orientation was addressed by establishing three key zones in the design, which acted as an overarching ordering system. Perpetua Forma Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/tao-c-ziinlife-beijing-store https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/tao-c-ziinlife-beijing-store Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:38:39 GMT Formerly known as Beijing textile warehouse, a factory with red-brick walls and pitch roof built in the 1960s has been transformed into a new showroom for a young domestic furniture brand, ZIIN. Atelier tao+c sought to balance the relation between existing site with the new function, exhibition and sale, background and objects by placing two intersecting square frameworks, which were rotated 45 de Perpetua Forma Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/studio-spazio-workshop-garage https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/studio-spazio-workshop-garage Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:35:35 GMT Nestled within the garden of a semi-detached house, Studio Spazio's Workshop Garage in a Garden is an exercise in structural clarity and spatial openness. Designed to accommodate two parking spaces and a workshop, the compact building is composed of four imposing wooden panels. Despite its modest scale, these panels introduce a striking presence, establishing a dialogue with the surrounding trees Perpetua Forma Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/simon-durand-transformation-of-a-barn https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/simon-durand-transformation-of-a-barn Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:32:55 GMT Inside an old 17th-century barn in which no line is straight, a wooden box with fully glazed facades takes place to accommodate a new apartment. The contemporary intervention constantly echoes the traditional Swiss agricultural constructions, reinterpreting some of their archetypes, diverting them from their primary use to generate a surprising dwelling, with unusual proportions, which revolves en Perpetua Forma Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/furniture/sergio-calatroni-papiro-lamp https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/furniture/sergio-calatroni-papiro-lamp Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:28:28 GMT Designed by Sergio Calatroni, an eclectic personality divided between art, design and architecture, the Papiro floor lamp embodies an enchanting mix of form and flexibility. With its distinctive, organic silhouette, Papiro is designed to be more than a light source—it is a sculpture for the home. The nickel finish complements its sinuous shape, creating a striking balance between industrial materi Perpetua Forma Furniture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/pihlmann-lenschow-summer-houses-in-rageleje https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/pihlmann-lenschow-summer-houses-in-rageleje Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:25:54 GMT Tucked between deciduous and coniferous trees, shrubs, and rhododendrons, four houses lie in the clearings. Like wedges gently nestled into the vegetation, they create a complex built for four brothers. Located in the woods, but near the ocean shore, the houses are exposed to a harsh coastal climate. Along with the encircling vegetation, this setting has formed the architectural leitmotif. The hou Perpetua Forma Architecture https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/pihlmann-lenschow-between-birch https://perpetuaforma.com/editorial/architecture/pihlmann-lenschow-between-birch Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:23:30 GMT Amid a quiet forest clearing, Between Birch makes a case for architectural modesty. Designed by Kim Lenschow in collaboration with Pihlmann Architects, this small summerhouse demonstrates how careful choices in form, materials, and construction can result in a dwelling that is both ecologically and aesthetically light. With minimal disturbance to its surroundings, the house settles gently into the Perpetua Forma Architecture