Kagvrv

Oidé Labo

Designed as a working laboratory rather than a conventional café, the project dissolves the distinction between production and service. Baking, roasting and brewing become visible forms of craft within a restrained white interior. Stainless steel elements operate as equipment before furniture, emphasizing precision over decoration.

2026    Industrial Design with Lino Gasparitsch

980 sf    Millwork by Niall Studio

Vancouver    FRP panel fabricated by Roberts Composite

Completed

Multi - Generational Family Home 04

Designed as an alternative to the subdivision of the detached house, the project accommodates multiple generations within a single domestic structure. Independent living spaces are organized around shared thresholds, balancing privacy with everyday encounters. A restrained exterior and carefully framed openings establish continuity with the surrounding neighbourhood while supporting a higher residential density.

Vancouver, British Columbia

Status
Under Construction

Structural Engineering
Effinity Consulting

Energy Modelling
Vancity Energy

Sustaining Apertures

Location : Or Gallery, Vancouver

Research Based Art Installation With Lys Divine Ndemeye

Curated And Written By Jenn Jackson

Selected by Capture Photo Festical

Spring 2024

Ceramic Co-Design And Fabrication : Nolan T.K.

Installation Build : Alixzander Morale

Photographed by Connor Davies

A suspended column of modular planters, each holding a small ecology, arranged in a vertical field. The installation treats plants as spatial material rather than ornament, producing a lightweight structure that oscillates between sculpture, partition and micro-landscape. Shadows double the piece on the wall, marking growth and temporal change themes central to our ongoing interest in territoriality, living systems and quiet spatial interventions.

Urban Acupuncture in Vancouver

A mid-rise prototype that rethinks Vancouver’s density through communal care. Kitchenless micro-units, a shared commissary, a basement vertical farm and planted ground-level commons form a metabolic architecture rooted in nourishment, reciprocity and ecological stewardship.

Live and Work Laneway Home

Location : Vancouver, British Columbia

Engineering Team : Effinity Consulting

Energy Modeling and Technology : Vantage Energy Solutions

Landscape Architecture : Topographics Landscape Architecture

Status : Construction

The brief initially dictated a combination of an art studio and apartment. Commonly refered to as a lane-way house in Canada, this auxilary lot underwent policy change allowing for a more nuanced use of ones laneway property. As seen below, the design celebrates the program allowing for the multi generational occupants both in the existing main house and laneway to live and work with space for private semi - private and semi - public moments required in work and life.

Medium Farms

Feasibility / Speculative Project In
Arctic Farming

A climate–responsive agricultural pod designed for the northern territories of British Columbia. The structure uses a woven timber lattice with a translucent skin to form a warm interior microclimate, enabling year round food production in remote communities. The geometry creates a series of linked domes that operate as both farm infrastructure and gathering space, reflecting our interest in territorial systems, local sovereignty and architectural clarity.

Volumes for the Unspoken
A sculptural series by KAGVRV

Floating Volumes is a series of objects that study how mass can appear weightless through precise geometry. Each piece is built as a suspended or visually lifted box, held by a minimal frame that reads more like a spatial diagram than a piece of furniture. The series plays with balance, negative space and quiet tension, reflecting our interest in clarity, structure and the subtle manipulation of volume.

Medium Farms Retail

Feasibility / Speculative Project In
Arctic Farming

A modular grocery outpost designed for northern British Columbia, built around the idea of local farm pods and short supply chains. The interior is organized as a tiled field with simple crate displays, a lightweight grid ceiling and clear sightlines, creating a space that feels both infrastructural and warm. The design explores how small retail buildings can serve as territorial anchors for remote communities, supporting local growers while offering a calm and functional environment.

Urban Parasite

Feasibility Study

A lightweight pavilion designed as an extension of a small café or community food space. The project uses a straightforward timber frame, a slatted roof and large openings to create a bright, open dining environment. A vertical planting wall forms a gentle enclosure, softening the edge between street and interior and introducing a micro-landscape into the project. The pavilion sits within the studio’s ongoing interest in clarity of structure, territorial edges and the role of small buildings in supporting social life.

Kasirwa Earth House

Project Location : Mt Kilimanjaro , Tanzania

Completed : Fall 2015

Kasirwa Earth House is a community-built project in Kasirwa Village on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Working with local craftspeople and students under the guidance of Jason Orbé, we designed and built three small volumes for incoming teachers and a pavilion at the village entrance. The structures use gabion stone walls, rough-sawn timber frames and hand-applied earth infill, drawing from local knowledge and the material logic of the region.