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A round timber home with a metal conical roof and wraparound deck, set on a forested ridge above a lake at sunset, the sun low on the horizon over layered islands and mountains.

Architecture made for round homes.

We believe a home should feel connected to the land, to the people who inhabit it, and to the life unfolding within it. In collaboration with Smiling Woods Yurts, we design thoughtful round homes that embrace the possibilities of circular living, shaped around your site and the way you want to live.

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Round-Home Specialists

Personalized Layouts

Coordinated With Smiling Woods Yurts

Construction-Ready Drawings

Designed around the way you live

The round shell is where your design begins.

The shell gives you the structure. We design the layout, the circulation, and every room around your site and how you live.

Looking in through open French doors onto a sunlit deck, toward a living room with a spiral staircase to a loft and a kitchen with a center island beyond.
A curved great room beneath a radial timber ceiling, floor-to-ceiling windows flooding a stone kitchen island and wood stove with daylight, a black spiral staircase to a loft, and a full kitchen with stainless appliances to one side.

Inside the space

A round home, designed for your life.

The kitchen, the seating, and the layout are planned together as a whole, not fitted in after the fact.

Why round

A form that changes how a home feels.

Without conventional corners or long corridors, movement through the home becomes more open and direct, and daily life naturally gathers toward the center.

A warmly lit round living and kitchen area at sunset, with a wood stove, a round dining table, a kitchen island, and a sectional couch arranged around a central coffee table beneath a radial timber ceiling.

From vision to buildable design

Every beautiful idea must survive the details.

Turning an idea into a buildable design takes more than a floor plan. We work through the layout, the details, and the drawings until it is ready to move forward.

  1. 01
    Understand

    We start with your site, your program, and how you want to live before drawing anything.

  2. 02
    Design

    Early concepts explore the layout and the relationship between rooms.

  3. 03
    Develop

    The plan is refined until the spaces, the structure, and the details work together.

  4. 04
    Document

    We produce the architectural drawings your project needs to move toward construction.

  5. 05
    Coordinate

    We stay aligned with Smiling Woods Yurts as the design and the structural system come together.

Isometric section cutaway of a round home, showing the spiral stair, open living and kitchen area, and the radial roof structure above.
Section axonometric — layout, structure, and material transitions

Selected projects

One form. Many directions.

Each project responds to a different site and a different way of living. The round form is a starting point, not a fixed template.

A round timber home with a dark standing-seam roof and wraparound porch, set in a mountain clearing surrounded by tall pines under a partly cloudy sky.
Blue Mountain Round HomeDesign complete
Set at the edge of a mountain clearing, framed by tall conifers.
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A round timber home with a wraparound deck on a hillside, overlooking a pine-forested valley and a lake in the distance.
Highland Overlook Round HomeUnder construction
Perched on a hillside above a forested valley and lake.
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A two-story round timber home with a wraparound deck and warmly lit windows, set in a forest clearing at dusk.
Redwood Ridge Round HomeIn engineering
Set in a forest clearing, glowing warmly at dusk.
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A coordinated path forward

Architecture and the round-home system, working together.

Materia Studio designs the home. Smiling Woods Yurts provides the round structural system. We coordinate directly so the architecture and the structure develop together, not as two separate efforts.

Materia Studio

Architectural design

  • Space planning
  • Architectural drawings
  • Design coordination

Smiling Woods Yurts

Smiling Woods Yurts

Round-home building system

  • Engineered yurt structure
  • Roof and wall system
  • System-specific coordination
A two-story round timber home in a pine forest at sunset, its windows lit warmly from within, overlooking a lake and distant mountains.

Begin your home

Your round home starts with a conversation.

Tell us about your site and how you want to live. We'll help you understand what comes next.

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No finished plan required. A rough sketch, property information, or simply an idea is enough to begin.