Architecture & Interiors

Alder & Vane

Quiet buildings, made to be lived in.

Begin with the site

Light, slope and neighbours decide the plan long before any drawing does.

Floors stack, shift and fold so every room borrows light from the one above it.

A building is felt by moving through it, so we draw the journey as carefully as the walls.

We design homes and roomsthat reward slow looking.Every wall, window and thresholdearns its place, then steps back.

Residence · Coastal NSW

2024 · Coastal NSW

A low timber house that steps down a dune, with every bedroom facing the water.

Garden pavilion · Southern Highlands

2023 · Southern Highlands

A rammed-earth room open on three sides, sheltered by one deep roof.

Interior · Sydney

2024 · Sydney

A terrace-house renovation built around a single 14-metre table and a wall of oak joinery.

Workspace · Newcastle

2022 · Newcastle

Six artists’ studios in a former brickworks, each lit from the south and the roof.

Courtyard housing · Wollongong

2025 · Wollongong

Eight homes around a shared garden, linked by covered walkways and one quiet gate.

Step 1
Listen
Long conversations about how you live, what you keep and what you’d rather lose.
Step 2
Sketch
Rough, fast drawings of form and light that we can change together.
Step 3
Draw
Plans, sections and joinery detailed until a builder can price and build them.
Step 4
Build
We stay on site through construction, so the drawings and the building match.