Residential Work
O'ahu Residence + Studio
Residential Work
O'ahu Residence + Studio
This house occupies the terrain as a poised line between volcanic earth and tropical canopy. A thin steel roof floats above expanses of glass, its deep overhangs casting long ribbons of shadow that temper the intensity of the landscape. Lava stone walls anchor the structure with a deliberate heaviness, while elevated living spaces extend outward like inhabited verandas, hovering just above the garden. Light slips through slatted screens, animating interiors with shifting patterns that echo wind in the palms. The architecture is neither object nor retreat, but a calibrated threshold where domestic life meets the density of the jungle with quiet precision.
A Garden of Living Rooms
Inside and out blur into a continuous field of courtyards, water rooms, shaded terraces, and long horizontal interiors framed by glass. Open air dining pavilions gaze into thickets of palms, an upper living salon hovers above firelight and stone, and circulation threads through layered gardens that constantly reset one’s sense of orientation. Shadows, reflections, and vegetation define the atmosphere more than the materials themselves. The house feels both intimately protected and completely porous, a place where daily rituals unfold within a choreography of breeze, water, and filtered light. It is architecture not as spectacle, but as an immersive climate, light, air, stone, and canopy held in a state of equilibrium.
Industrial Quiet
Though formed from modular steel containers and exposed structural systems, the house rejects the aesthetics of raw utility. Materials are darkened, softened, and paired with stone, planting, and warm interior surfaces that absorb rather than reflect excess light. Infrastructure becomes a backdrop rather than a declaration. Additive systems, prefabrication, and assembly logic operate in quiet alignment beneath the spatial experience. What remains visible is calm, measured occupation and the slow choreography of light across water, glass, and leaf.
“This project transforms industrial assembly into an architecture of stillness, proving that modular construction can feel less like machine and more like inhabited landscape.”
Kevin M Welch
Architect + Founder | Arcturus
This house occupies the terrain as a poised line between volcanic earth and tropical canopy. A thin steel roof floats above expanses of glass, its deep overhangs casting long ribbons of shadow that temper the intensity of the landscape. Lava stone walls anchor the structure with a deliberate heaviness, while elevated living spaces extend outward like inhabited verandas, hovering just above the garden. Light slips through slatted screens, animating interiors with shifting patterns that echo wind in the palms. The architecture is neither object nor retreat, but a calibrated threshold where domestic life meets the density of the jungle with quiet precision.
Residential Work
O'ahu Residence + Studio
The Lifted Horizon
This house occupies the terrain as a poised line between volcanic earth and tropical canopy. A thin steel roof floats above expanses of glass, its deep overhangs casting long ribbons of shadow that temper the intensity of the landscape. Lava stone walls anchor the structure with a deliberate heaviness, while elevated living spaces extend outward like inhabited verandas, hovering just above the garden. Light slips through slatted screens, animating interiors with shifting patterns that echo wind in the palms. The architecture is neither object nor retreat, but a calibrated threshold where domestic life meets the density of the jungle with quiet precision.
A Garden of Living Rooms
Inside and out blur into a continuous field of courtyards, water rooms, shaded terraces, and long horizontal interiors framed by glass. Open air dining pavilions gaze into thickets of palms, an upper living salon hovers above firelight and stone, and circulation threads through layered gardens that constantly reset one’s sense of orientation. Shadows, reflections, and vegetation define the atmosphere more than the materials themselves. The house feels both intimately protected and completely porous, a place where daily rituals unfold within a choreography of breeze, water, and filtered light. It is architecture not as spectacle, but as an immersive climate, light, air, stone, and canopy held in a state of equilibrium.
Industrial Quiet
Though formed from modular steel containers and exposed structural systems, the house rejects the aesthetics of raw utility. Materials are darkened, softened, and paired with stone, planting, and warm interior surfaces that absorb rather than reflect excess light. Infrastructure becomes a backdrop rather than a declaration. Additive systems, prefabrication, and assembly logic operate in quiet alignment beneath the spatial experience. What remains visible is calm, measured occupation and the slow choreography of light across water, glass, and leaf.
“This project transforms industrial assembly into an architecture of stillness, proving that modular construction can feel less like machine and more like inhabited landscape.”
Kevin M Welch
Architect + Founder | Arcturus
A Garden of Living Rooms
Inside and out blur into a continuous field of courtyards, water rooms, shaded terraces, and long horizontal interiors framed by glass. Open air dining pavilions gaze into thickets of palms, an upper living salon hovers above firelight and stone, and circulation threads through layered gardens that constantly reset one’s sense of orientation. Shadows, reflections, and vegetation define the atmosphere more than the materials themselves. The house feels both intimately protected and completely porous, a place where daily rituals unfold within a choreography of breeze, water, and filtered light. It is architecture not as spectacle, but as an immersive climate, light, air, stone, and canopy held in a state of equilibrium.
Industrial Quiet
Though formed from modular steel containers and exposed structural systems, the house rejects the aesthetics of raw utility. Materials are darkened, softened, and paired with stone, planting, and warm interior surfaces that absorb rather than reflect excess light. Infrastructure becomes a backdrop rather than a declaration. Additive systems, prefabrication, and assembly logic operate in quiet alignment beneath the spatial experience. What remains visible is calm, measured occupation and the slow choreography of light across water, glass, and leaf.
“This project transforms industrial assembly into an architecture of stillness, proving that modular construction can feel less like machine and more like inhabited landscape.”
Kevin M Welch
Architect + Founder | Arcturus
