Camp 01San Bernardino Mtns
Big Bear
Alpine A-frames and timber platforms among the pines. Wood stoves, cedar tubs, snow on the deck in January.
Studio for built & lived thingsLos Angeles — 34.10° N, 118.35° W
A01Art
A02Architecture
X03Experience
D04Design
We shape buildings, objects and places worth staying in.
Scroll(01) Practice
Four letters, one way of working.
A
Art
Installations, objects and commissioned pieces. The part of the work that asks questions before it answers them.
A
Architecture
Coffee shops, tenant improvements, homes and retreats — drawn carefully, permitted cleanly, and built to open on time.
X
Experience
How a place is arrived at, moved through and remembered. Light, sound, sequence, and the first ten seconds through the door.
D
Design
Interiors, furniture, identity and the small things in between. One hand across every scale, so nothing feels like an afterthought.
(02) Portfolio
Selected architecture & design.
The portfolio updates from Instagram@aaxdcom →
(03) AAXD Field
Architecture you can sleep in.
In development
Field is our next chapter: a collection of architect-designed camps across California. Small footprints, real beds, big skies — the comfort of a well-made room with nothing between you and the landscape but canvas, timber and glass.
Camp 02High Desert
Joshua Tree
Low domes and shade structures set among the boulders. Outdoor showers, plunge pools, and more stars than seems reasonable.
Camp 03+Scouting
Across California
Coast, Sierra foothills, wine country. We're walking land now — if you own acreage with a view, we'd like to talk.
i.
Site first
Every structure is placed by hand, around the trees and rocks that were there before us.
ii.
Light touch
Raised platforms, off-grid systems, and nothing that can't be removed without a trace.
iii.
Real comfort
Proper beds, hot water, good linen. Wilderness outside; a well-designed room inside.
iv.
Dark skies
Low, warm, shielded lighting. The night is part of the architecture.
Be first to know when the first camp opens.
(04) Studio
Small by design.
About
AAXD is an architect-led studio in California, working at the point where a building stops being an object and starts being an experience.
We take on a limited number of projects each year so that the person who draws the first sketch is the same person standing on site at the end. The studio's work spans coffee shops and cafés, commercial tenant improvements, private homes, interiors and art — and, increasingly, places of our own.
- ArchitectureResidential · Hospitality
- Tenant ImprovementsRetail · Office · F&B
- Coffee Shops & CafésConcept to permit
- Interiors & FurnitureFull service
- Experience DesignRetreats · Stays
- Art & InstallationCommission
- Site & FeasibilityLand · Glamping