Surround Architecture

At Amani, finely crafted casework lines the entry to the primary bath, softening the transition between the home’s shared spaces and its most private retreat. Floor-to-ceiling brushed oak cabinetry brings a rich, tactile warmth to the home, drawing out the depth of the stone and steel that give this family’s space its grounded character. We’re fortunate to work alongside very talented millwork partners who bring real craft to every Surround home — people whose skill and attention show up in every detail.

Architecture + Interiors: Surround Architecture
Builder: Dowbuilt
Landscape: Marpa Landscape Architecture
Specialty Timber + Steel Fab: Spearhead
Photography: Paul Dyer
FFA + Styling: Surround Architecture

Our Dry Creek project greets the morning sun while nestled into the base of the Jack Pine forest. Morning dew still glistens on the standing seam steel roof.
Cascading patios rest gently on the landscape finding their way to the pool deck below, offering a variety of morning coffee locations to start the day.

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Drawing on the additive nature of agricultural architecture, this Folly Farm was conceived as a series of buildings that grew together over time, blending comtemporary, rustic, and industrial elements. Responding to the owner’s declared love of “single-story houses that ramble and keep you guessing about what’s around the corner,” this meandering Boulder ranch home features a sunken living room at its core that is flanked by the kitchen and dining room with a small conversation space and fireplace on the other.

Our enduring love of barns runs a deep—as archetypes they are at once essential and auxiliary. On a larger scale they complement a house, shape microclimates, and help define courtyards in the landscape. As structures they capture the essence of shelter in the simplest terms by providing prospect and refuge. Barns can also be elevated to serve a seemingly endless spectrum of modern life.

Surround’s barn at the Lacuna project in Ontario employs stone, timber, and charred wood cladding in a balanced manner of refined rusticity. The clients enjoy the barn as an ultimate flex space which can be made cozy with close friends to watch regional hockey tournaments, or versatile enough to host impromptu concerts with neighbors during the holidays.

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Guardian of the vineyard, our Sleeping Bear design rests atop the fruitful banks of Lake Leelanau, keeping watch from the ecotone habitat at the forest’s edge.  Inspired by the agricultural heritage of the area, as well as the layering of the vineyard below, this design crafts a vintner’s residence fit for quiet contemplation on the banks of the Great Lakes.

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Amani is a distillate of the elemental palette that defines our work: grounding stone, raw steel, and soft, warm woods. As the glass walls retract, the pure form remains, sculpted from this material trinity.

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