Our projects aim to connect us to the environment, to each other, and to ourselves.
Featured Projects
The work, edited.
A select few of our projects by members of the collective that reflect the present direction of our work. For our full portfolio, please click the "View Full Portfolio" button below.
House Zero
Architecture · Interior
Hotel Otis
Interior · Hospitality
The Terminal at Katy Trail
Interior · Commercial
Courtyard House
Plan, with intention.
A good plan does more than organize a project — it shapes how a space is experienced, built, and understood. It creates clarity early, aligns decisions, and gives every part of the project a shared direction.
The problem
Projects stall because of structure, not ideas.
Too many layers between thinking and doing. Kit removes them. We assemble a focused team around your project and move it forward — directly. Each of our collective members are capable of fishing for themselves, with all members possessing a minimum of 8 years of professional experience, each is powerful on their own and unstoppable when joined together.
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No hierarchy
The people in the room are the people doing the work.
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No overhead
Every hour you purchase is a real hour of design work.
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No ego
We follow the project where it needs to go.
The collective
Independent minds. One direction.
A group of architects, designers, and makers — each working independently, brought together around your project. We gather around shared values, not vertical hierarchies. Peace, Joy, Compassion, Well-Being, and Insight.
Warren Weaver, RA
Development, Architecture
Erin Hamilton
Interior Design, Objects
Emily Chaney
Architecture, Interior Design
Eric Stephens
Architecture, Fabrication
How it works
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Pick a Kit
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Tell us your project
Share the services you need, your timeline, and scale. A short intake — 5 minutes.
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Start your Kit
We'll meet to discuss how best to use your hours. Work begins.
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Our pricing is grounded in over 40 years of real project experience. We use clear, upfront purchase orders so you know exactly what you're getting—and what it costs. No surprises, no posturing. Just a shared focus on doing great work and delivering a project we're all proud of.
Not sure how much you need? Start with 50 hours.
Brainstorm
20
hours$3,500
A focused block for concept work, spatial strategy, or a defined design sprint. Basically, a super sweet napkin sketch that refines the DNA of the rest of the project.
Concept
50
hours$8,000
The right size for most projects. Concept through development, with room to go deep. This is when the concept grows up a bit, but can't walk on its own.
Schematics
100
hours$15,000
Complex or multi-phase work. Sustained depth from concept through delivery. The concept has legs and can leave the nest. Use us to complete the project, or shop around with others.
Hours can be added at any point. Same rate, no new contract.
Design, connected.
Selected projects
Work, connected.
A selection of projects across architecture, interior design, and objects — completed by members of the collective.
Architecture · Interior
House Zero
Austin, TX · 2023
Architecture · Residential
Manistique
Manistique, MI · 2025
Architecture · Residential
Courtyard House
Bastrop, TX · 2024
Interior Design · Hospitality
Hotel Otis
Harbor Springs, MI · 2024
Interior Design · Residential
The Waller
Austin, TX · 2025
Interior Design · Residential
44 East
Austin, TX · 2023
Interior Design · Commercial
The Terminal at Katy Trail
Dallas, TX · 2024
Architecture · Interior
Rollingwood Residence
Austin, TX · 2020
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Project
House Zero
TypeArchitecture · Interior
LocationAustin, TX
Year2023
Overview
A house built from the ground up.
House Zero explores the intersection of 3D-printed concrete construction and warm, hand-crafted interiors. The result is a home that feels both experimental and deeply livable.
The project required close coordination between architecture and interior design — assembled as a single Kit.
Completed while working at Lake Flato Architects.
Scope
Architecture
Full design from site to structure, working with ICON's 3D-printing technology.
Scope
Interior Design
Material palette, furniture selection, and spatial sequencing throughout.
Project team
Warren Weaver
Architecture
Gallery
Project
Hotel Otis
TypeInterior Design · Hospitality
LocationHarbor Springs, MI
Year2024
Overview
A hotel that feels like a home.
Hotel Otis is a midcentury hotel in Harbor Springs, Michigan. The project focused on the redesign of the lobby and common areas — bringing warmth and considered detail back to the shared spaces while preserving the character of the original building. Guest rooms were not part of the scope.
Completed while working at Michael Hsu Office of Architecture.
Award
2024 Interior Design Best of Year Awards
Country Getaway
Scope
Interior Design
Redesign of the lobby and common areas.
Scope
Material Curation
Custom textile selections, stone specifications, and lighting design throughout.
Scope
Objects
Bespoke furniture pieces and locally sourced decorative objects for each space.
Project team
Erin Hamilton
Interior Design + Objects
Emily Chaney
Architecture + Interior Design
Gallery
Project
The Waller
TypeInterior Design · Residential
LocationAustin, TX
Year2025
Overview
Living with intention.
The Waller is a residential project that asks what it means to live deliberately. Warm materials, quiet proportions, and a restrained palette combine to create spaces that feel both grounded and open — designed for how people actually live.
Completed while working at Michael Hsu Office of Architecture.
Award
2025 IIDA Oklahoma / Texas Design Excellence Award
Living
Scope
Interior Design
Full residential interior design from spatial planning through material and finish specification.
Project team
Emily Chaney
Architecture + Interior Design
Gallery
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Warren is a licensed architect with fifteen years of practice across residential, institutional, and cultural projects. His work is rooted in a rigorous understanding of site and material — he is drawn to buildings that feel inevitable in their landscape.
Before joining Kit, Warren led design at a mid-size firm in Austin, where he oversaw projects ranging from single-family residences to civic pavilions. He holds a Master of Architecture from Yale and has taught design studios at UT Austin.
Selected work
2020
Rollingwood Residence
Austin, TX — Architecture
2025
Manistique
Manistique, MI — Architecture
2023
House Zero
Austin, TX — Architecture + Interior
Education
M.Arch, Yale School of Architecture B.S. Architecture, UT Austin
Recognition
AIA Young Architects Award 2021 Architectural Record Design Vanguard
Erin works at the intersection of materiality and lived experience. Her interiors are distinguished by a precise material intelligence — the way stone meets wood, how light falls at a particular hour, what a room asks of you when you enter it.
Erin spent eight years at a hospitality design firm in New York before relocating to Austin. Her residential practice spans high-end private residences to compact city apartments — she treats both with equal care. Erin holds a BFA in Interior Architecture from RISD.
Selected work
2024
Hotel Otis
Austin, TX — Interior Design
2023
44 East
Austin, TX — Interior Design
2025
The Waller
Austin, TX — Interior Design
Education
BFA Interior Architecture, RISD Studio Abroad, Copenhagen
Recognition
Interior Design Best of Year 2024 Dezeen Award Longlist 2022
Emily designs interiors that work with natural systems rather than against them. Her practice centers on material warmth, spatial sequencing, and the way a room holds light — treating every surface as a decision worth making.
She brings a background in art history and material research to her interiors, resulting in spaces that feel considered and unhurried. Emily holds a BA in Architecture from Rice University and an MFA in Interior Design from Pratt Institute.
Selected work
2025
The Waller
Austin, TX — Interior Design
2024
The Terminal at Katy Trail
Dallas, TX — Interior Design
2023
44 East
Austin, TX — Interior Design
Education
BA Architecture, Rice University MFA Interior Design, Pratt Institute
Recognition
IIDA Texas Design Excellence Award 2025 Interior Design Best of Year 2024
We believe meaningful work results from meaningful relationships. We are curious people who value creating spaces that feel human. Because of this, we do not build for the "instagram shot," the architectural critic, Zillow, or what's hot on TikTok. That may be a result of what we build, but it is not why we build.
We build for that subtle jump of the heart when entering a novel space. We build for the ephemeral mix of the senses when the light hits just right in your favorite room, with your favorite book, at your favorite hour. We build for the joy that arises from a challenging job well done with people that you love. We build because we believe architecture is a living canvas with the capacity to shape, and be shaped by, the human spirit.
We do this by focusing on oversized grounded volumes, procession, proportion, spatial expansion and contraction, the choreography of light, and the dance between contrasts. These architectural principles do not require lofty budgets, exquisite material tastes, or overly engineered acrobatics. They require people that care about the preservation of the human spirit.
Our guiding values
Values, in action.
We measure the success of our spatial explorations through our values. Peace, Joy, Compassion, Well-Being, and Insight. Our values guide how we work, communicate, and decide — shaping both the environments we create and the experience of creating them. We seek to work with partners and clients who share these values.
Peace
Joy
Compassion
Well-being
Insight
Peace via Environmental Agency
A space should grant you complete control over your sensory environment. By allowing you to intuitively alter light, airflow, and boundaries, the architecture gives you the power to choose between open connection and quiet, protected sanctuary.
Joy in the Kinetic and Experiential
Joy emerges from the unexpected delight of interacting with an animated, responsive environment. We incorporate adaptive and interactive elements that introduce tactile physical sensations, turning the physical structure into an active participant in your daily life.
Compassion as the Foundation
We listen deeply to understand your psychological and emotional vulnerabilities. Rejecting ego-driven monuments, we craft protective, intuitive sanctuaries tailored directly to your inner life and specific routines.
Well-Being through Spatial Bones
True wellness is anchored in how a space feels and breathes, not how it looks in a magazine. We prioritize raw, honest, and unadorned volumes that promote lasting mental and physical health, long after trendy finishes fade.
Insight through Intentional Pauses
Thoughtful architecture offers sudden clarity. By carefully sequencing movement through a space and framing specific views, we create intentional pauses where modern noise drops away, allowing the mind to clear.
Design with intention
We maximize experience, not profit.
The best projects do not have the highest margins—they have the most soul, which ultimately creates the most value. Good design does not require expensive materials; it requires people who care.
A 2x4 costs the same in any house. The only difference is intention.
We protect your spatial and experiential budget. When projects go over budget, conventional value engineering inevitably strips away the best ideas. We prevent this by designing with humble, honest materials and methods from the very beginning. This approach serves as a financial shield, allowing us to allocate your investment into what actually matters most. By structuring our business model to reduce unnecessary overhead, we are free to focus entirely on collaboration, craftsmanship, and thoughtful decision-making.
Memorable spaces are shaped by trust, care, and relationships.
We are not trying to be the biggest firm. We are trying to do work that feels real.
Who we work with
The right fit matters to us.
We look for clients, collaborators, consultants, and builders who share similar values — people who value honesty over performance, curiosity over ego, and meaningful work over unnecessary complexity.
We believe the best projects begin with alignment.
Project
MKT
TypeArchitecture · Mixed-Use
LocationHouston, TX
Year2019
Overview
Shared space that builds community.
MKT is a major mixed-use adaptive reuse development in Houston. Directed design across programming, schematic, and design development phases, with close attention to how shared space can cultivate community and social connection across a diverse urban constituency.
Completed while working at Michael Hsu Office of Architecture, 2015–2019.
Scope
Architecture
Lead designer across programming, schematic, and design development phases.
Project team
Warren Weaver, RA
Development, Architecture
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Project
The Terminal at Katy Trail
TypeInterior Design · Commercial
LocationDallas, TX
Year2024
Overview
Where the city meets the trail.
The Terminal at Katy Trail is a food and beverage destination anchored by its relationship to the trail itself — a warm, layered interior that draws energy from outside and gives it back to the neighbourhood.
Completed while working at Michael Hsu Office of Architecture.
Scope
Interior Design
Interior design across units, interior amenity spaces, and lobby.
Project team
Emily Chaney
Architecture + Interior Design
Gallery
Project
Manistique
TypeArchitecture · Residential
LocationManistique, MI
Year2025
Overview
A house shaped by the land.
Manistique is a single-family residence designed in response to its northern landscape — a building that settles into the site with a quiet confidence, using natural materials to extend the logic of the land indoors.
Scope
Architecture
Site strategy and architectural design.
Scope
Interior Design
Material palette and spatial sequencing throughout the home.
Project team
Warren Weaver
Architecture
Gallery
Project
44 East
TypeInterior Design · Residential
LocationAustin, TX
Year2023
Overview
Quiet restraint, quietly lived in.
44 East is a high-rise residential project that balances the scale of the building with the intimacy of home — a material palette of warm oak, limestone, and soft plaster that makes large spaces feel considered and personal.
Completed while working at Michael Hsu Office of Architecture.
Award
2023 IIDA Oklahoma / Texas Design Excellence Award
Residential
Scope
Interior Design
Full residential interior from spatial planning through furniture and finish specification.
Scope
Material Curation
Bespoke material selections coordinated across all rooms and shared spaces.
Project team
Erin Hamilton
Interior Design + Objects
Emily Chaney
Architecture + Interior Design
Gallery
Project
Rollingwood Residence
TypeArchitecture · Interior
LocationAustin, TX
Year2020
Overview
A home rooted in its suburb.
Rollingwood Residence is a complete residential project — architecture and interior working as a single discipline. The design takes cues from the neighbourhood's mature trees and quiet streets, creating a house that feels rooted and generous.
Completed while working at Michael Hsu Office of Architecture.
Scope
Architecture
Full residential design from site planning through construction documentation.
Scope
Interior Design
Material palette, millwork design, and furniture selection throughout.
Project team
Warren Weaver
Architecture
Gallery
Project
Courtyard House
TypeArchitecture · Residential
LocationBastrop, TX
Year2024
Overview
Built around the open air.
Courtyard House organises living around a central outdoor room — a protected courtyard that brings light and air deep into the plan. The architecture is quiet, the materials are few, and the courtyard does the work.
Scope
Architecture
Full residential design organised around a central courtyard.
Scope
Interior Design
Material palette and spatial sequencing that extends courtyard logic indoors.
