We make buildings that step back — where light, proportion, and silence do the work that ornament cannot. The best space is the one you stop noticing, the one that simply lets you live.
A stratified facade of board-formed concrete that reads as sediment — heavy at the ground, dissolving into glass and air as it rises toward the light.
Timber louvers regulate every hour of daylight, turning the south wall into an instrument. Inside, rooms are tuned to stillness rather than spectacle.
A single nine-pane clerestory floods the volume with even, shadowless north light. The grid is the architecture; everything else is left deliberately bare.
One blunt mass of pigmented concrete, shifted a half-metre off its own shadow. A civic room that asks for nothing and holds everything.
Concentric frames draw the eye inward to a single dark core — a sequence of thresholds that slows the body before it arrives at stillness.
We listen, walk the site, and find the single idea the building wants to be.
Drawings, models, and material studies refine that idea into proportion and light.
We navigate approvals and engineering so the design survives contact with reality.
On site, every week, until the last joint is right.
FORM & VOID was founded in 2009 by Mara Ellison and Tobias Reyes, who met restoring a derelict water tower and never quite stopped. From a single room in East London, the studio has grown to a small, deliberate practice that takes on a handful of projects at a time — houses, studios, and quiet civic rooms — believing that good architecture is mostly a matter of subtraction.