SUIKOMU HAUS

2025  |  DELTA, BC  |  CONCEPT STAGE

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Suikomo Haus is the inhale to Haku Haus’ exhale, a meditative fire pavilion conceived as a space for gathering, grounding, and renewal. Its name derives from the Japanese word suikomu, meaning to breathe in, and it embodies that elemental inward pull, drawing energy toward the center through geometry, light, and flame.

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Carved into the landscape, Suikomo Haus reveals itself as both vessel and void. The circular descent leads to a hearth at its heart, a modern interpretation of the ancient fire pit, where earth and sky meet in quiet ceremony. The dome above opens like a celestial lens, evoking the architecture of observatories and the intimacy of a breath held in stillness. By day, it cradles reflection and conversation; by night, it becomes a cosmic chamber, connecting the ritual of fire with the vast silence of the stars.

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Materially restrained and spiritually resonant, Suikomo Haus expresses the continuity between body, landscape, and cosmos. Its layered terraces invite slow arrival. Its curved shell, like an inhalation, shelters and focuses energy inward before releasing it back through the open aperture. The experience is both primal and futuristic, an echo of the ancient sweat lodge, reimagined as an observatory for the soul.

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At Longpre Architecture, design is not a composition of parts but a choreography of feeling. Suikomo Haus completes the breath begun by Haku Haus, forming a dialogue between expansion and return, fire and water, inhale and exhale. Together, they remind us that architecture, at its highest expression, is not built to impress—but to bring us home to the rhythm of our own being.