COLLECTIVE
Established in the summer of 2024 in response to a resounding demand for a slower, gentler, more responsible approach to the paradigms of architecture and development.
Colvin Haven’s turnkey residences bring together local expertise and global perspectives, united by a common quest for a heightened quality of living.
Our diverse team of architects and craftspeople, dreamers and doers embrace innovative practices that foster community collaboration to set new standards in creating harmonious homes.
FOUNDATION
Colvin Haven’s Founder, Andrew, is a chef by trade who began his career working at several of the top fine dining restaurants at that time including Gramercy Tavern in NY, NY and Gary Danko in San Francisco.
His love for food coupled with his deep creative spirit led him to develop a new concept for fast casual food, bringing farm to table to the masses. As a Co-Founder of Mixt and Split Bread, both cherished San Francisco eateries, he was given the opportunity to share his creativity through food and also through the design of physical spaces, as he focused on architecture & design process of the new restaurants.
The process would eventually lead him on a path that brought him to Bali, where he yearned to create a new kind of living space that was immersed in nature and would become a sanctuary for he and his family.
CRAFT
The limitless possibilities in Bali to create the visions of his imagination lit Andrew up with the idea of tapping into deep knowledge of nature, building, and craft. He immersed himself fully in the process, researching Asian architectural typologies. His reverence for Japanese sensibilities and techniques is embodied in his home designs, which through materials, orientation and spatial composition are realized for optimal harmony—the point at which nothing more needs to be added, and nothing more taken away.
Our approach is rooted in the belief that architecture should be in harmonious symbiosis with nature. We avoid imposing pre-conceived forms, instead allowing our designs to emerge organically from a thoughtful dialogue between the built and natural worlds.
"WE BORROW FROM NATURE THE SPACE UPON WHICH WE BUILD"
Tadao Ando
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