The practice

A studio
rooted in place

Moss Studio is an architecture and landscape practice of twenty-four people, working between Bangkok, Chiang Mai, and Singapore on buildings that are designed to weather well.

The Moss Studio workshop at dusk

Manifesto

A building should be the least interesting thing on the site after twenty years.

We began in a former joinery, working on small houses where the budget went into the structure and the garden. That discipline still governs the practice at thirty storeys.

Biophilic design, for us, is not a surface of planters. It is the decision to let climate, soil, and habitat set the plan — and then to build the frame that makes them legible from the inside.

We work slowly with a small number of clients, prototype at full scale, and stay involved through the first years of occupation to see how the material ages.

The studio measures its work in maintenance schedules, canopy cover, and comfort hours, not in renders. Every project leaves with a care manual.

Values

Material honesty

Nothing is clad to imitate something else. Stone is load-bearing, timber is structure, earth is mass.

Long horizons

We design for the building's second and third life, specifying assemblies that can be repaired by hand.

Quiet luxury

Restraint is the luxury: fewer moves, better made, with silence and daylight treated as materials.

Living systems

Planting is drawn at the same scale as structure, with soil volumes and irrigation resolved in the model.

Leadership

Elin Kovač

Founding Partner, Architecture

Twenty years across cultural and residential work in Northern Europe.

Noor Adeyemi

Partner, Landscape

Trained as an ecologist; leads planting and water strategy.

Hugo Lindqvist

Partner, Technical

Mass timber, rammed earth, and whole-life carbon accounting.

Mira Sandoval

Associate, Interiors

Runs the studio workshop and material library.

Recognition

  • 2026RIBA Sustainability Prize — Shortlist
  • 2025Mies van der Rohe Award — Nomination
  • 2025AJ Retrofit, Housing
  • 2024Dezeen Awards, Landscape Project of the Year