Terraces, glazed rooms and planted surfaces follow a steep coastal slope. The villas are conceived as a sequence of sheltered places facing the water.
JTAArchitecture
The living practice
Architecture / Intelligence / Possibility
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02 / Building with the ground
Let the landscape lead.
Buildings step, shelter and open. A conversation can reveal how your project might belong to its setting.
23 projects / An evolving body of work
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01 / The practiceA worldwide outlook
Architecture
beyond the object.
We design buildings, interiors and the ways of working that bring them into being.
JTA Architecture is a boutique practice with a worldwide outlook. We bring architectural design, external research and intelligent workflows into one practice, working with people and their agents.
Every engagement begins with what you want to achieve. We draw on knowledge beyond our own portfolio, explore alternatives and make the basis of each decision visible. The work should be open to questioning, testing, revision and continuation.
Our contribution must earn its place: by improving the result, reducing the effort it takes to get there, or making a useful next step possible.
Architectural commissions.
Buildings, interiors and shared places. From the first brief through BIM and construction documentation to information for fabrication, assembly and building production.
Learn moreResearch & design studies.
A focused question, a set of alternatives or a decision to resolve. Evidence and design brought together around a clear purpose.
Learn moreWork with your agent.
Your agent can connect directly with Ask JTA to define a focused design or research task, agree inputs and deliverables, and follow progress. Receive reviewable results your agent can assess, use and carry into your workflow.
Learn moreFrom the first question, together.
02 / The journalSpace / Material / Life
Ways of seeing.
Architecture, research and the possibilities we can develop together. Each perspective is a place to begin a conversation.
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1603 / The collectionA portfolio in motion
Living landscapes
Five settings where roofs, terraces and changing levels bring the inhabited space into a closer relationship with the terrain.
A landscape gives architecture more than a view. It establishes levels, edges, directions of approach and places where people can stop. We read those conditions together with the programme, so that the passage from a room to the outdoors becomes part of the design. The important question is how a building lets people occupy its setting at different scales.
The villa study works down a hillside through rooms, decks and planted roof surfaces. The section connects arrival above to outdoor living towards the bay. The Seafront Resort also uses successive terraces to bring accommodation towards the water, balancing the privacy of individual villas with access to the shoreline. In the Seaside Gated Community, the changing coastal levels shape the relationship between architectural planes, routes and occupied terraces.
At Lakefront Resort, repeated pitched roofs break the hospitality programme into a legible waterfront composition. Paths and sheltered terraces connect that larger roofscape to the experience of an individual stay. The garden house brings the same attention to a domestic setting: deep eaves and setbacks give its garden-facing elevations a sequence of outdoor rooms. Together, the projects suggest a consistent approach: let the ground and the way people move across it help determine the architecture.
A new commission can begin with that relationship between ground, programme and movement. Through Ask JTA, we can frame a siting or section study around your available information, then agree which alternatives to explore and how to compare them. External landscape and climate research can widen the possibilities; missing site information remains an explicit assumption. The intended deliverable brings drawings, reasoning and unresolved questions together, giving you and your agent a basis for the next decision.
A 15,000 m² resort conceived along the meeting of forest and lake. Pitched roof sequences and smaller building groups give the waterfront a varied rhythm.
A 22,000 m² coastal resort that steps down the terrain. Glazed rooms, planted terraces and waterside platforms connect hospitality to the shoreline.
A 38,000 m² coastal concept expressed through angular planes and a long, sinuous edge. The landscape model gives the relationship to the cliff a central role.
An 800 m² residence defined by deep eaves, stepped terraces and long garden-facing elevations. Horizontal layers connect the house to its outdoor rooms.
A place to begin. A conversation to carry forward.
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