Features
Built to feature your inherent abilities.
Always protected, you can stay aware, choose your level of openness, connect with others, and respond to changing conditions—without surrendering privacy or control.
The Eye as a Design Model
Human Eye
Halo Geometry
A post-free 180° opening maintains awareness while preserving shelter.
Full back protection = reduced vigilance, leaving more room for calm, creative thinking.
The eye is optimized for awareness in the service of connection without surrendering protection. This is the Halo's north star.
Nature’s Solution
Eyes achieve awareness and help us communicate while minimizing risk. Optimized to operate across extremes from barely to fully open, the eye maximizes information input while remaining ensconced and protected.
An Architectural Interpretation
Built to help people remain connected to nature, opportunity, and one another without letting the protection get in the way. Windows, open like an eye turned 90 degrees.. panoramic and post free. Privacy and light filtering with shades, blinds or electrochromic window film.
Human Centered, Literally.
Designed to enhance your ability to see, be seen, and communicate . Its symmetrical opening, converging lines, and centralized seating draw attention toward the person(s) within.
Facial expression and body language often speak before words do. Eye contact, posture, gesture, and the movement of hands and arms help others read openness, uncertainty, interest, and response. This is a new kind of structure to keep your signaling ability front and center.
Three ways to grow trusting relationships
Combine a protected interior position, an exterior walk-up bar, and a shared table to make it easier for people inside and outside to notice, approach, and engage one another.
A. Insiders can be available without becoming exposed.
Make the threshold so functional, safe, and controllable for the interior occupant that their ideal place to be is also one of optional availability to someone approaching from outside.
B. Approach without overcommitting.
Once the occupant’s availability is established, reduce the social-capital cost for a potential approacher by providing an exterior bar for low-stakes overtures. It acts as a low-commitment runway where both parties can read the social cues, gradually deepen the interaction, or gently disengage without embarrassment or intrusion.
C. Take an equal place at the table.
By combining the interior table with the exterior bar, occupants and approachers naturally find themselves face-to-face around a shared social plane. The generally circular arrangement gives each participant an equal place to listen, speak, and engage with everyone else—creating ideal conditions for casual loose connections to build over time and more easily transition into deeper connections.
Modes
Sunken Floor for Face to Face Connection
See eye to eye by default with inner sunken table joined with outer walk-up bar
1 occupant counter
2 occupant counter + bar
4 occupant corner table + bar
Flat Raised-Floor Neutral Function Platform
Flat-floor, accessible, neutral-function platform.
2-4 member band “Stage” mode in flat-floor configuration
4 occupant Lounge
2 occupant studio for gaming or professional consultation
4 occupant podcast or poker table
6 occupants at internal tasting bar
Wellness / exercise / spa modes
2 Yoga
2 Meditation
1 massage table / massage room
3 occupant Peloton studio
1 occupant Yoga studio
Specialty Modes
2 occupant Product Demo / Outreach with full height video screen backdrops
Bed Mode: Bed drops down from recessed hidden pocket in ceiling.
Social Density Modes
The Quad: Use overhanging solar eaves for a more protected feeling compound
Radial Compound: Create 1 large “Ring” table from 3 elements.
Abundant solar that allows you to open yourself up to people and nature without worrying about “saving energy” changes everything.
Solar Superpower
Enough on-board solar to run the AC in summer for free
(Enough power to charge your car, even during a grid blackout)
2,640 W
5,280 W
9,900 W
More than just eco-reliable or off-grid capable, you can have 15 to 30 times the solar Watts/ Square Foot of typical solarized buildings.
Yes, the heat pump will still deliver warm air, and it also comes with high powered heating vests if you want to stay cozy with the windows open in the coolness of fall and spring. Comes grid-connection ready for northern states or shaded locations
Will it also keep me warm in winter?
Hi- powered battery storage tech options for rainy-day operation. Modular add-on packs available in 16kWh units.
Custom Accessible Paths and Ramps
Site specific access options help meet grade, landscape and accessibility needs without treating the path as an afterthought.
Circular accessible sloped path. Not as steep as a ramp, allowing more aesthetic options such as optional railings on one or both sides.
Accessible ramp with custom floating guardrail design.
Every unit includes climate control, warm dimmable lighting, and sound absorbing interiors and is ready to be towed to any location.
Standard Provisions
