The light in the Hebrides is unlike anywhere we work: low, silver, and astonishingly clear between the squalls. It rewards a building that knows how to frame it.
Here, shelter comes first. We anchor with board-marked concrete and stone, then open carefully toward the water, reading the prevailing wind before placing a single pane.
It is the far edge of the studio's world, and perhaps the truest test of how we build: quietly, for the weather, and for the long horizon.

Designing for the path of the sun
Every MANOR plan begins not with walls, but with the daily arc of light across the site.

Why we build in stone
Stone is patient. On an exposed coast, that patience is everything.

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