Living Lightly Laboratories are places where ideas are explored through lived experience rather than fixed plans. They are working environments — homes, landscapes, and projects — where observation, reflection, and adaptation happen over time. Each laboratory responds to its own climate, culture, and constraints, allowing patterns and principles to be tested in real situations rather than abstract models.

Living Lightly Laboratories are places where ideas are tested through lived experience. These are working landscapes, not finished designs — spaces where observation, reflection, and adaptation happen over time. Adrian’s Croft in Scotland and Campoverde in Spain each offer very different contexts, allowing patterns, principles, and practices to be explored in relationship with climate, culture, land, and people.
These places function as long-term learning environments, shaping both practical work and the educational resources that emerge from them.

Campoverde in a small detached villa within an urban context in a dry, Mediterranean climate.