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A round timber home with a shingled exterior and dark conical roof, its door open and warmly lit at dusk, a lantern-lined stone path leading through the forest to the entry.

Round Home Architecture

Architecture made for round homes.

Materia Studio is an architecture practice focused entirely on round homes. We work directly with Smiling Woods Yurts to turn a round structural shell into a home designed around your site, your routines, and the way you actually want to live.

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Smiling Woods Yurts

Official Design Partner
A clear, guided design process.

Round-Home Specialists

Personalized Layouts

Coordinated With Smiling Woods Yurts

Construction-Ready Drawings

Designed around the way you live

The round shell is where your design begins.

The shell gives you the structure. We design the layout, the circulation, and every room around your site and how you live.

Crossing the threshold

The open front door of the round home, lit warmly against the dusk forest, a lantern-lined path leading to it.
Looking in through the open door: a sunlit round living room with a domed skylight, a wood stove, and a sectional couch.
A sunlit round living room with a domed skylight overhead, a wood stove and dining table at its center, a kitchen island to one side, and a sectional couch facing a wall of forest-facing windows.

Inside the space

A round home, designed for your life.

The kitchen, the seating, and the light are planned together as one room, not fitted in after the fact.

Why round

A form that changes how a home feels.

Without conventional corners or long corridors, movement through the home becomes more open and direct, and daily life naturally gathers toward the center.

  • A shared center
  • Natural circulation
  • Views in every direction
  • Light from above

From vision to buildable design

Every beautiful idea must survive the details.

Turning an idea into a buildable design takes more than a floor plan. We work through the layout, the details, and the drawings until it is ready to move forward.

  1. 01
    Understand

    We start with your site, your program, and how you want to live before drawing anything.

  2. 02
    Design

    Early concepts explore the layout and the relationship between rooms.

  3. 03
    Develop

    The plan is refined until the spaces, the structure, and the details work together.

  4. 04
    Document

    We produce the architectural drawings your project needs to move toward construction.

  5. 05
    Coordinate

    We stay aligned with Smiling Woods Yurts as the design and the structural system come together.

Conceptual roof-plan sketch — for illustration only

Material language — timber, blackened steel, glass

Selected projects

One form. Many directions.

Each project responds to a different site and a different way of living. The round form is a starting point, not a fixed template.

A round timber home with a dark standing-seam roof and wraparound porch, set in a mountain clearing surrounded by tall pines under a partly cloudy sky.
Blue Mountain Round HomeDesign complete
Set at the edge of a mountain clearing, framed by tall conifers.
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A round timber home with a wraparound deck on a hillside, overlooking a pine-forested valley and a lake in the distance.
Highland Overlook Round HomeUnder construction
Perched on a hillside above a forested valley and lake.
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A two-story round timber home with a wraparound deck and warmly lit windows, set in a forest clearing at dusk.
Redwood Ridge Round HomeIn engineering
Set in a forest clearing, glowing warmly at dusk.
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A coordinated path forward

Architecture and the round-home system, working together.

Materia Studio designs the home. Smiling Woods Yurts provides the round structural system. We coordinate directly so the architecture and the structure develop together, not as two separate efforts.

Materia Studio

Architectural design

  • Space planning
  • Architectural drawings
  • Design coordination

Smiling Woods Yurts

Smiling Woods Yurts

Official Design Partner

Round-home building system

  • Engineered yurt structure
  • Roof and wall system
  • System-specific coordination
Construction-ready direction

Structural engineering, permitting, and construction involve other professionals. Materia Studio and Smiling Woods Yurts coordinate the design so that work begins on solid ground.

Looking in through an open door at a sunlit round living room in daylight — a wood stove, dining table, and sectional couch beneath a domed skylight, with a kitchen glimpsed beyond.

Begin your home

Your round home starts with a conversation.

Tell us about your site and how you want to live. We'll help you understand what comes next.

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No finished plan required. A rough sketch, property information, or simply an idea is enough to begin.