22.02 Tucker - Part 3/3
Video by @louismitchell__
Built by @wildernessbuildingco
Engineering by Keith Long & Associates
Metalwork by @valley.engineering
We’ve been thinking about how our projects sit in the world after our work is done, how the sites we respond to eventually begin responding back. As we describe what exists, it begins to shift around us. Within this exchange, we’ve come to understand our work as a collection of relationships between people, places, and the circumstances that hold them.
Our approach grows from looking for what is already present rather than trying to make something entirely new, recognising that every site carries its own momentum, shaped by what came before and open to what might come after.
We’ve also begun to notice how much value emerges beyond the immediate project. To see this asks us to look past the thing itself and sense the larger context, whether historical, lived, or yet to come.
The focus shifts from what a building is to what it does - what it enables, what it reveals.
22.02 Tucker - Part 2/3
Video by @louismitchell__
Built by @wildernessbuildingco
Engineering by Keith Long & Associates
Metalwork by @valley.engineering
Preservation through collective care extends beyond the site. It appears in the way we work with the people who build and document our projects. When everyone feels a sense of ownership, the work carries a level of attention that could never be achieved through a singular voice.
We value the moments when a detail shifts because of a builder’s insight, when a client’s instinct redirects a room, or when an unexpected constraint reveals a new possibility. Collaboration becomes its own form of preservation, keeping the work adaptable, open, and responsive to the time and place it occupies - both practical and generous.
Nothing about this approach is extraordinary or fixed. It doesn’t need to be. Its strength lies in its continuity, in the care shared by many, in the willingness to read rather than overwrite and in the belief that context often has more to offer than anything we impose.
22.02 Tucker - Part 1/3
Video by @louismitchell__
Built by @wildernessbuildingco
Engineering by Keith Long & Associates
Metalwork by @valley.engineering
Most of the time we begin by simply paying attention. There is value in every context - suburban, rural, inherited, makeshift. Rather than imposing predetermined answers, we try to read what is already there.
Sometimes this means recontextualising existing conditions instead of removing them, other times it is a small shift that changes how a place is understood. The process is rarely linear. Each site poses new questions, and each client brings their own rhythm.
When this unfolds well, the architecture doesn’t overshadow its surroundings. It nudges, reframes, and steadies them. Whether in a sprawling suburb or beside a heritage facade, the scale is secondary. The aim is simply to extend what is there - to bring clarity without becoming the centre of it.
For each SSdH project, we commission artist @wyatt.knowles to create a context specific artwork. This provides us with an opportunity to engage with a profession outside the typical disciplines we work with and allows for new conversations, both with Wyatt and within the studio.
Similarly, we have been collaborating with @louismitchell__ through the capturing of the construction process of our project ’22.02 Tucker’. Video becomes a way of celebrating how things are made, how they are used and acknowledges the shared voices that shape a project.
22.02 Tucker, coming soon…
2025 was a big year for SSdH and we couldn’t be more thankful for the many opportunities to collaborate, the talented contractors and consultants we have been working alongside, our committed clients and the resultant awards recognition.
Looking forward, we are excited to see what 2026 brings.
