Creating sculptural bamboo architecture is a journey of discovery, there is no question about that. It can be deeply nourishing,...

Many people ask us about the Ekawa Bamboo Village. So in this blog post we wish to answer many of the questions that we are often asked.

It has been a long time since writing a blog post. We are now returning after taking some time out to grow into becoming a family, with a...

The joy of nurturing one hectare of land can be found in a sense of simplicity and realness in everyday life: eating from your own...

In the watershed there is never absolute silence. Often, something close to silence can be experienced late at night and in the very...

Our built environment has a responsibility to hold and nurture our deepest selves. After all it is our third skin and our home within...

Specialisation of action has been an important aspect of human culture for centuries. It is also a part of animal nature, in the sense of...

Bringing our marriage into a space of co-creation in almost all areas of our lives is a daily learning, a moment-by-moment sharing, a...

Several years ago I was enamoured with the dream of van life. I had re-furbished a VW crafter van to be my home and architectural office...

We are beginning to understand the term ‘home’ in a new sense, reaching much beyond the bamboo structures we have built to live in, or...

We arrived to the rainforest with a dream to create a home amongst nature and to explore how this space can be shared with others. Our...

As we were preparing for the adventure of moving to the rainforest in Colombia, we had a number of farewell gatherings with friends and...

Medardo (aged 70) is another or our collaborators. He once told us the story of how the coffee plant was transformed during his lifetime....

Our project began with the question ‘how can the act of living be an offering?’. To us this was about an exploration of what the human...

Joaquin (aged 69) has been our closest collaborator since we’ve lived in the rainforest. He is a real “campesino”, to use the local term...

We have made a decision to find the peak of our aliveness which has involved moving to live in the rainforest. When we first arrived, we...

The process of constructing a bamboo building as part of this team is a beautiful process. We begin with a survey of the rocks, trees and...

During our careers as architects and in our lives of adventure, we have observed in worldwide landscape conditions that a schism exists...

We stumbled across bamboo by chance. We were living in the UK and were invited to run an architecture design-build workshop with a...

One day we realised that the space we are living in is an entire watershed. We had just discovered a route that connects our home in the...