Terracotta Breath House / live out studio

Terracotta Breath by live out studio is an elegant yet humble multigenerational home quietly nestled in a narrow laneway of Da Nang, Vietnam. Designed for two households - the parents' home at the front and their daughter's home at the rear - the project occupies a modest 7×22-meter urban plot. Between the two, a small planted courtyard serves as both separator and connector: a shared space that breathes life, daylight, and gentle community into daily routines.

To inhabit the stone wall is to engage in a dialogue with the memory of the landscape. The stone, ancestral and austere, forms a foundation that roots the work to the topography. Above it, the architecture rises in concrete planes, a sober and balanced tension. Inhabiting becomes a gesture of continuity: The stone wall no longer just contains, but interprets the landscape, establishing a horizon where the natural and the built coexist.

SAW.Earth has directed a student workshop to create an ellipsoidal greenhouse, optimizing solar exposure for the Scholes Street Community Garden in Brooklyn, NY.

Civitas is "the world's first dual certified Zero Energy and Zero Carbon building" via the International Living Future Institute. The home occupies a tiny greenfield corner site in a new urbanism development built on a peninsula of land in downtown, a new urbanist community known as Harbor Town in Memphis, Tennessee.