Architecture · Interiors · Master planning
Buildings that belong to their place.
Strata is an architecture practice designing homes, workplaces and public buildings with a quiet confidence: honest materials, generous light, and nothing that does not need to be there.
Services
What we do
Residential
Houses, apartments and extensions shaped around the way their owners actually live, from the first sketch to the last fixture.
Commercial
Offices, shops and hospitality spaces that work hard for the businesses inside them and read clearly from the street.
Renovation
The careful transformation of existing buildings: keeping what has value, replacing what does not, and joining the two honestly.
Consultation
Feasibility studies, planning strategy and design reviews for clients at any stage, including before there is a site.
Practice
Design philosophy
Our work is driven by a desire to enhance the human experience. We make buildings that are not just objects in the landscape, but of the landscape, respecting their natural and cultural context.
Research
Every project starts with the site: its climate, its history, and the streets and people around it.
Collaboration
We design with clients, engineers and builders in the room, not after they have left it.
Restraint
The best move is often the one we do not make. We add only what the building needs to be itself.
Journal
Latest notes
The role of light in minimal architecture
How natural light shapes spatial experience and defines architectural form.
Sustainable concrete alternatives
A review of emerging low-carbon materials that maintain structural integrity.
Case study: Hillside House
From concept to completion, the story of a house designed for a young family on a difficult slope.
Have a site, a brief, or just a question?
We reply to every enquiry within two working days, usually with a few questions of our own.