Basalt House
Durable Vintage is concerned with buildings that endure — their materials, their structures, their landscapes, and the long work of keeping them whole. What matters here is not what a building looks like when it is new, but what it becomes over time.
Basalt House
600-millimeter basalt aggregate walls, turf roof, geothermal integration. Extreme thermal mass designed for centuries of use in a landscape that splits lesser materials within a decade.
Salt Meadow Archive
Reclaimed timber and copper cladding on a raised foundation at the edge of a salt marsh. Built for flood resilience and the slow oxidation of coastal air.
Ridgeline Station
Steel frame and rammed earth on an exposed ridgeline. Photovoltaic skin, panoramic siting, and the particular silence of elevation.
Rammed Earth Construction
Compacted earth as structural wall — thermal mass, color stratification, and what happens to the surface over forty years of weather.
Bamboo as a Building Material
Tensile strength, rapid renewability, and the particular challenge of connections in a material that is neither wood nor steel.
The Science of Thermal Mass
How materials absorb, store, and release heat — and why the delay matters more than the quantity.
Reclaimed Wood in Architecture
The structural and aesthetic case for timber that has already lived one life. Provenance, grading, and what age does to grain.
Coming soon — short observations on materials, maintenance, and the work of paying attention to buildings over time.