Would-Be House & Garden
A living timelapse.
What began as the remodeling of an overgrown Pacific Northwest property has slowly become something else: an ongoing study in time, landscape, maintenance, failure, and change.
Each year, the same paths are walked again — documenting how the house, garden, and surrounding landscape gradually evolve season by season.
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Would-Be is where design ambition meets real life: muddy boots, unfinished projects, deer damage,
maintenance limits, and changing priorities.
As an architect, composition, systems, spatial hierarchy, and long timelines feel intuitive. But gardening keeps challenging those instincts:
deer eat the composition
plants choose their own winners
maintenance edits the design
weather ignores the plan
Over time, the project has become less about control and more about observation:
learning how to participate in a place rather than impose upon it.
Would-Be is a long-form visual study of that process.