Studio
We design houses for the coast of Vesper Bay, and now one tower.
About the studio
Halyard Studio is nine people in an old sail loft on Sparmaker Row. We design houses for the coast of Vesper Bay, and now one tower.
We work from models. Each project is built on screen first, as a full model, down to the thickness of a wall. Then we cut it open, again and again, until the cuts stop finding problems.
We stay small on purpose. Two partners lead every project, and one of them is on site each week while it is built.
Why the name
A halyard is the rope that raises a sail. We like the name because a good drawing does the same job. It gets a building off the ground.
How we think
01
Cut it open first
A cut shows what a plan hides: how tall a room feels, where the light lands, how a floor meets the ground.
02
Follow the sun
We track the sun through a model for a whole year. A roof or a court is sized by where the shadow falls.
03
Build what we drew
The drawings we show you are cut from the model we build from. There is no second, prettier set.
04
Small is fine
A cabin gets the same care as a tower. Some of our best ideas came from our smallest jobs.
Models from the studio
Concept imageModel: The study model 
Concept imageModel: The study model 
Concept imageModel: The study model
The partners
01
Imre Castellan (Sample)
Founding partner
Imre started the studio in 2016, after ten years of drawing boats. He still sets up the first model of every project himself.
02
Calla Verhoeven (Sample)
Partner
Calla joined in 2018 and leads our work on site. She ran the build of Headland House from the first stake to the last pane of glass.
The studio in numbers (Sample)
- Founded
- 2016
- People in the studio
- 9
- Buildings finished
- 14
Studio (Sample)
Sparmaker Row, Hawser Quay
The studio is on the top floor of an old sail loft, close to the pier.
(555) 555-0160
studio@halyardstudio.example
- Monday to Friday
- 9:00 to 6:00
- Saturday and Sunday
- Closed
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