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A-100 · Selected work
Fictional concept · Portland, Oregon

SIX
SHEETS

Every commission is introduced by the surface it is made of, at the scale you would meet it: a wall, a screen, a stair, a joint. The whole buildings are in the drawings, and the drawings are in the studio.

0 — 2 m

Right: plate A-508, the arcade at low tide

Monochrome photograph of a white vaulted arcade: a long run of repeating arches receding into the distance above a flight of shallow steps
6
Built, 2021 — 2025
38,090
Square feet in total
4
Structural systems
1
Building we did not clad
Four at full height · A-204 to A-118
A-204Cultural pavilion

Verso Hall

Portland, OR · completed 2025

Area
9,140 sq ft
Structure
In-situ concrete
Finish
Board-formed, unsealed
0 — 2 m

One pour, one board pattern, no cladding anywhere on the building. The grain of the shutter timber is the finish, the tie holes are the setting-out, and in August the sun crosses the wall for eleven hours and never lands the same way twice.

Monochrome close photograph of a board-formed concrete wall: horizontal shutter lines, small blowholes and a raking diagonal shadow across the surface
Board marks and tie holes, south wallSection A–A
A-112Private residence

Ashgrove House

Sauvie Island, OR · completed 2024

Area
2,860 sq ft
Structure
Timber platform
Finish
Charred cedar, 22mm gap
0 — 2 m

The clients had one condition: the tree stays. So the house folds around it, and the wall that faces the drive is a screen of charred cedar with a 22-millimetre gap — close enough to read as solid from the road, open enough to see the headlights from the kitchen.

Monochrome close photograph of a wall of dark charred timber slats with deep shadow gaps between them
Charred cedar screen, east elevationSection B–B
A-301Twelve residences

Terrace Court

Bend, OR · completed 2024

Area
14,700 sq ft
Structure
Concrete flat slab
Finish
Polished screed, steel rail
0 — 2 m

Twelve apartments on a corner lot the zoning wanted to fill flat. Stepping the plates back bought every home a deck deep enough for a table. What it bought the building is this stair — wide enough for two people carrying shopping to pass without turning sideways, which is the only circulation test that matters.

Monochrome photograph of a pale concrete-panelled wall with a single flight of steps and a slim metal handrail rising against it
The shared stair, level two landingSection C–C
A-118Private residence

Fold House

Hood River, OR · completed 2023

Area
3,240 sq ft
Structure
Blockwork and steel
Finish
Perforated screen, 31% open
0 — 2 m

The west elevation takes four hours of direct sun in August. The screens are perforated at thirty-one per cent open area, hung off the same track as the flyscreens, and they drop in under a minute. Down, the living room runs three degrees cooler.

Monochrome photograph of a white perforated metal screen seen at a raking angle, the holes closing into a fine texture towards the far end
West screen, 31 per cent open areaSection D–D
Also completed · two more sheets

TWO
MORE

A chapel we took a cement render off by hand, and sixty-one arches between a wharf and a town. Same fields, same section cuts, a quarter of the height.

Monochrome photograph of an old brick wall where the cement render has broken away, exposing courses of soft brick and lime joints beneath
Render off, north wall, week nineA-402

Ordway Hall

Type
Chapel restoration
Where
Portland, OR · 2022
Area
6,050 sq ft
Structure
Load-bearing brick

A cement render applied in 1974 had been holding water against the brick for fifty years. We took it all off by hand, re-pointed four hundred square feet in hot lime, and let the wall breathe again. Fourteen months, and a congregation that voted on the chairs. Twice.

Monochrome photograph of a white vaulted arcade: a long run of repeating arches receding into the distance above a flight of shallow steps
Looking north from the steps, low tideA-508

Salt Arcade

Type
Public walk
Where
Astoria, OR · 2021
Area
2,100 sq ft
Structure
Sprayed concrete vault

Sixty-one arches between the wharf and the town, each an inch narrower than the last, so the perspective closes faster than your eye expects and two hundred feet feels like a held breath.

Monochrome close photograph of a board-formed concrete wall with horizontal shutter lines and small tie holes
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THE SIX WERE DRAWN
THE SAME WAY.

Four phases, each with a date on it and something you can hold at the end. That is the process sheet — and it is the honest answer to how long this takes.

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LINEA does not exist. The studio, the six projects, the people, the fees and every review on this site were invented by Brimmscale to demonstrate a website.

The photography is licensed stock, greyscaled in the build pipeline and chosen so that every plate shows a material or a fragment rather than an identifiable building by another architect. What is real is the build underneath it.

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