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The Estate Tasting Room - Walla Walla

Case Study: Designing a premier estate tasting room in Eastern Washington. Explore how our studio aligns spatial flow, acoustic control, and sweeping vineyard sightlines to create a highly curated, luxury hospitality environment for wine club members and guests.

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The Urban Tasting Room - Woodinville

Case Study: Adapting wine country hospitality for a dense urban footprint. Discover how we designed a high-traffic tasting room in Woodinville, utilizing spatial sequencing and tactile material palettes to bring the agricultural authenticity of the vineyard into the city.

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The Walla Walla Hillside Residence

Case Study: A hillside vineyard estate in Eastern Washington that reinterprets traditional agrarian forms with clean, minimalist detailing. Explore how our studio integrated the home into a complex sloped topography, calibrated interior sightlines to frame the Blue Mountains, and curated a durable exterior material palette of weathered cedar and concrete engineered to perform in a high-desert climate.

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Designing The Orcas Island Residence

Case Study: A 1,000-square-foot ranch-style home on Orcas Island comprehensively remodeled for a professional chef and a young family. Explore how we re-engineered a compact footprint to maximize spatial efficiency, introduce vaulted volumes, and design a high-output modern kitchen integrated seamlessly into the surrounding forest.

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Designing the Walla Walla Winery

Case Study: Balancing industrial agricultural production with luxury guest hospitality in wine country architecture. Discover how our studio utilized double-glazed acoustic glass partitions, independent HVAC zoning to mitigate fermentation odors, and a shared material language of board-formed concrete to design a high-output production facility and premium tasting salon under one roof.

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