Solum
A yellow excavator lifts its bucket over a modern house at sunset, a tower crane and scaffolding behind it.

We break ground.

One studio for architecture and construction, from the first cut in the ground to the last light switched on.

Start a project

Every building begins as a cut in the earth.

We read the ground before we draw a single line: its slope, its soil, its light. And because we build what we draw, every line on our drawings is a line we will pour, lay and finish ourselves.

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    Read the ground

    Topographic survey, soil tests and a full year of sun studies before the first sketch.

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    Draw what we build

    Architects and site engineers in one studio, so the drawing and the pour never drift apart.

  3. 03

    Finish by hand

    Stone, timber and plaster chosen on site and laid by crews we have worked with for a decade.

Section A—A, Hillside HouseSun 21.06 / 21.12

Day 001 / 418

Fourteen months,one scroll.

Site preparation

Survey, clearing and setting-out: the house is drawn on the ground before anything is built.

Excavation 1 240 m³

Foundation

Footings and a reinforced slab, poured in one continuous day.

Concrete C30/37 · 186 m³

Structure

Load-bearing limestone, a concrete frame and a timber roof.

Ridge +8.90 m

Finishing

Stone, steel glazing, terracotta and oak. Then the garden, the pool and the light.

  • Limestone
  • Terracotta
  • Steel
  • Oak

Completed

Fourteen months after the first cut, the lights come on.

640 m² · handed over October 2025

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A construction timelapse of Villa Serra that plays as you scroll: Site preparation, Foundation, Structure, Finishing, Completed.

Designatedworks.

Three houses and a building of fourteen apartments, each designed and built by the same team, photographed on completion.

A pale concrete house cantilevered over a rocky hillside above the sea at golden hour.

P/01 — Private residence2024

Maison Falaise

Batroun, Lebanon — 420 m²

One concrete volume cantilevered nine metres over the cliff, anchored into a single excavated platform.

P/02 — Courtyard house2023

Dar Zeitoun

Byblos, Lebanon — 380 m²

Four limestone walls around one old olive tree. The house is the courtyard; every room looks into it.

An old olive tree in a gravel courtyard between tall limestone walls, lit by a single beam of sun.
A long, low rammed-earth house beside a reflecting pool in a desert valley at dusk.

P/03 — Desert retreat2022

Wadi House

Wadi Rum, Jordan — 560 m²

Rammed earth taken from its own excavation, laid in twenty-eight courses that hold the day's heat into the night.

P/04 — 14 apartments2025

Strait Street 07

Valletta, Malta — 1 900 m²

A seven-storey infill in hand-made brick, threaded between two Baroque townhouses on a four-metre street.

A slender brick and concrete apartment building between older stone houses on a narrow street at blue hour.
The lit concrete frame of a building under construction at night, a tower crane against a dark sky.

Bring usa site.

We will bring the rest: drawings, permits, concrete, stone and keys.

studio@solum.archi