Our farmhouse at Ngapuh Homestead in Borneo was crafted from a tree that fell naturally in a storm many years ago. The timber had started to rot, but with the community’s help we salvaged what we could and carried it by hand to the site. We built a timber frame structure with bamboo infill panels.

The house stands gently on stilts, letting rainwater move freely beneath it, while a steep metal roof with wide overhangs keeps the rainforest rains at bay. Quiet, local and regenerative. Where that tree once fell, new trees will rise within our lifetime, carrying life forward in a cycle.