Notes from the studio

Every ALTO plan begins not with walls, but with the daily arc of light across the site.

Stone is patient. On an exposed coast, that patience is everything.

What it means to build at the very edge of the land, where the view is also the weather.

Restraint, not spectacle: how a single well-placed opening can carry a whole room.

We choose materials not for how they look new, but for how they age.

Field notes from our most northerly site — wind, light, and the discipline of the far coast.