WE BUILD

AN ANCIENT WAY OF SEEING; A NEW WAY OF DOING

The Sky Institute is analyzing and reevaluating how we 

build, with the ultimate goal of creating a transformative 

place that will change the way we live.

The Sky Institute provides research-based design and construction solutions for communities that address the principles of environmental stewardship, legacy design, and agrarian traditions. The institute creates and incubates transformative ideas in “Living Laboratory” settings that are geographically, socio-economically, and ecologically diverse to spawn healthy communities and to educate current and future generations.

Research is performed intentionally in the “Living Laboratories” in collaboration with universities, students, scientists, engineers, planners, architects, and the research labs of independent building product manufacturers to test and refine their innovations in our Sky communities and buildings. We work to authenticate the value and performance of their products and designs in isolation and as integrated systems. Through the exhibitions of sustainable technologies working in harmony with people and planet, the Sky Institute provides the instruments for launching the next generation of design concepts, products and materials that will change the way we live and interact with our environment.

The Sky Institute opens new markets to inventors and entrepreneurs and reduces the barriers and costs to enter those markets by providing international platforms to test and integrate the latest advances that will create a sustainable future.

Legacy Design

Planted firmly in tradition and armed with a sense of urgency, energy, and insight, we are cultivating plans for our future with a distinctly exploratory approach.

Assessing the dystopian implications of the built environment of today and designing and building living laboratories for tomorrow, the Sky institute serves as an international incubator of ideas and ideals for building in the 21st century.

We are creating the foundation of our future

• Imagining it • Designing it

• Building it • Inhabiting It

• Landscaping it • Evolving it

We are elevating ideas, conserving resources, and spawning new visions. Together, we are working to plant seeds for the future and realizing the dream for a blueprint of more lasting ways of living.

Eco-Dweller

Models in admitting natural light and ventilation, configured to amplify breezes, and with north-facing clerestory to reduce the need for electric lighting. Raised on piers, treading lightly, preserving the woodlands and natural drainage patterns. Buildings of light construction that conserve natural resources.

To observe, hover above and not disturb.

Merging buildings with their natural surroundings, buildings with restraint and respect for nature. 

Farm house

Buildings designed for generations, that integrate technology with older strategies. What we leave our children’s children, with nobility of materials. A traditional type that is simultaneously elemental and original, embedded with style, drama, romance.

Digging deep in the dirt, connecting with the earth. The heritage of working the land, the cultivation of resources, judicious approaches to the Earth’s resources, productive land in balance with natural ecological systems.

Garden Cottages

Anchored by tradition and climate focusing on the vernacular as a repository of ecological wisdom, where technology and tradition are comfortably linked.

Walled, courtyards, gardens, enveloped in green walls, contained growth, espaliered fruit trees, arbors, verandahs, galleries, breezeways.

Modern Farm

The landscape is modified with installations of productive planting, groves of fruit-bearing trees, arbors, water reservoirs, fences, sheds, windmills, refined, advanced elements of pastoral lifestyle. 

Beautifully embedded in and adapted to their context and climate.

Solar Lofts

Designs emerging from the interactive process of every aspect of their setting, local building traditions based on locally available materials and craftsmanship, climate, geology, hydrology, ecology.

High performance energy efficiency, atonement to the sun.