Woodstock

A self-sufficient house on a riverbank in the Belgian Ardennes, built almost entirely from stone, timber and earth gathered within thirty kilometres, and not a drop of concrete. We're capturing the story of a house made the slow way, by many hands.

Woodstock began as a question more than a brief: could a house be built almost entirely from what the valley already holds? Over six years, BC architects & studies turned that into a prototype, a long collaboration between architects, artisans, engineers, students and the family who would live in it, where design, research and construction grew as one process.

It rests on the schist bedrock over compacted gravel, with no concrete anywhere. Volumes of local natural stone, laid in lime mortar and insulated with hemp, hold the intimate rooms; inside, walls of rammed earth and clay plaster are tinted by the red soil of the Ardennes. Above them, a frame of untreated local Douglas fir lifts a fully glazed living floor into the trees, open 360° to the landscape. Even the roofs are thin stone slate, the region's craft continued.

Finished in 2025, it is the kind of story Into the Wild Houses exists to tell: building as a way of learning, and a quiet argument that regenerative construction can be ordinary rather than exceptional. We're documenting it now. The video arrives in 2026.