Mountain Fold Architecture
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Mountain Fold is an RIBA chartered architecture practice based in East Sussex, passionate about creating sensitive contemporary low-energy buildings.
https://mountainfold.uk
https://mountainfold.uk
Swipe to see what I look for in a woodland setting - the kind of analysis that happens before the first sketch. The best interventions feel inevitable because they respond to what's already there.
More on what draws me to treehouse design - mountainfold.uk/2025/12/08/w...
More on what draws me to treehouse design - mountainfold.uk/2025/12/08/w...
Why Every Architect Should Design at Least One Treehouse | Mountain Fold Architecture
Why every architect should design a treehouse: a playful yet profound lesson in sustainability, creativity, and reconnecting architecture with nature.
mountainfold.uk
December 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Swipe to see what I look for in a woodland setting - the kind of analysis that happens before the first sketch. The best interventions feel inevitable because they respond to what's already there.
More on what draws me to treehouse design - mountainfold.uk/2025/12/08/w...
More on what draws me to treehouse design - mountainfold.uk/2025/12/08/w...
I've wanted to design one since watching Swiss Family Robinson as a child. Every treehouse forces constraint, humility, lightness. The principles transfer to everything else you design.
mountainfold.uk/2025/12/08/why-every-architect-should-design-at-least-one-treehouse/
mountainfold.uk/2025/12/08/why-every-architect-should-design-at-least-one-treehouse/
Why Every Architect Should Design at Least One Treehouse | Mountain Fold Architecture
Why every architect should design a treehouse: a playful yet profound lesson in sustainability, creativity, and reconnecting architecture with nature.
mountainfold.uk
December 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I've wanted to design one since watching Swiss Family Robinson as a child. Every treehouse forces constraint, humility, lightness. The principles transfer to everything else you design.
mountainfold.uk/2025/12/08/why-every-architect-should-design-at-least-one-treehouse/
mountainfold.uk/2025/12/08/why-every-architect-should-design-at-least-one-treehouse/
Contemporary architecture can learn from this intelligence. Every fold in the land suggests where a building wants to sit. Every treeline marks the windbreak that shaped settlement patterns.
This is the research that comes before the first sketch. What stories do you read in landscapes?
This is the research that comes before the first sketch. What stories do you read in landscapes?
October 1, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Contemporary architecture can learn from this intelligence. Every fold in the land suggests where a building wants to sit. Every treeline marks the windbreak that shaped settlement patterns.
This is the research that comes before the first sketch. What stories do you read in landscapes?
This is the research that comes before the first sketch. What stories do you read in landscapes?
Traditional builders understood this instinctively - their buildings nestle into folds of the hills, turn their backs to weather, open to sun and views.
October 1, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Traditional builders understood this instinctively - their buildings nestle into folds of the hills, turn their backs to weather, open to sun and views.