A Forever Home currently on the drawing board, designed with Darkitecture — the dark-toned design work led by our director, Kyle Zanetto.
The images on this page are design renders, not photographs. Nothing has been built yet. We publish work at this stage deliberately, because design is where a home is actually decided.
What the design is doing
Charred-dark vertical timber cladding across a two-storey form, softened by a planted roof over the single-storey wing — the roof reads as landscape rather than as roofing. Full-height glazing lines the living edge so the interior opens onto lawn and native planting, and the upper storey is set back and screened, so the mass never lands heavily on the site.
Dark cladding is not a finish decision alone in this climate. It absorbs heat, which changes how the building envelope has to be detailed, how the glazing is shaded and how the home is ventilated in summer. Those are decisions best made now, on paper, rather than discovered later.
Why we are involved before it is drawn
The cheapest time to change a house is while it is still a drawing. We work alongside the designer from this stage under an Early Contractor Involvement agreement, so buildability, budget and performance move together instead of arriving in sequence. It is the same approach behind Bluebush, where the detailing was settled long before anyone was on site — and the reason that home certified.
See the rest of the work currently in design, what is under construction right now, or how the whole thing runs from first conversation to keys in the Forever Home Process.
