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A concrete and timber room opening through full-height glazing onto a misty mountain landscape, raking light along a timber bench.
A board-marked concrete form standing against a pale sky.
A mid-century concrete civic building seen across trees.

We design
for the light first.

Aught is an architecture and interiors studio. Houses, restorations and a few public rooms, each one begun from the way the sun moves through it.

The work
Architecture & Interiors Naarm / Melbourne

A building begins as a question about the sun. We answer it before anything else, then let the rooms, the materials and the years follow.

Imogen Reid, Director

Selected work

06 projects · indexed by light
  1. 01 House on the Ridge Mount Macedon, Victoria · 2024 North-east
  2. 02 The Long Room Fitzroy, Victoria · 2023 South
  3. 03 Quarry Studio Castlemaine, Victoria · 2023 West
  4. 04 Two Courtyards Hawthorn, Victoria · 2022 Courtyard
  5. 05 The Reading Room Carlton, Victoria · 2022 North
  6. 06 Salt House Flinders, Victoria · 2021 East

How we work.

Every project moves through the same four movements. They are slow on purpose. A house is a once-in-a-life thing, and we would rather get the start right than rush to a drawing.

  1. 01

    Read the light

    We spend time on your site, in your existing rooms, through different hours. We learn where the sun lands and where it never does, what you want to keep and what is holding the place back. Only then do we talk about a brief.

  2. 02

    Set the plan to the sun

    We place the rooms you live in most against the best light, and arrange everything else around that. This is the decision the whole house rests on, so we take our time and we draw it many ways.

  3. 03

    Choose materials that age well

    We pick a small palette of honest materials and detail them carefully. We make samples, build models and mock things up at full size so you can stand in the choice before it is built.

  4. 04

    Build it together

    We tender to builders we trust, then stay on site through construction. We protect the detail and the budget, and we hand you a building that does exactly what we drew.

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