Alchemy Architects

Specialties

Our distinct hands-​on approach to architecture and design combines a playful design process, collaborative relationships with clients, and partnerships with builders and fabricators, to create a harmonious blend of site, building, and community. With sustainable practices as a mainstay of our daily work, Alchemy utilizes recycling and reuse along with building strategies that reduce waste. Our multidisciplinary team draws inspiration from art, literature, history, and leading creative thinkers to create alternative and atypical project solutions. Alchemy’s innovation on the weeHouse prefab system and «tightwad panache» renovations has gained recognition on an international scale.

History

Established in 1992.

While Alchemy is known internationally for our design of the weeHouse, a large portion of Alchemy’s business is more traditional architectural design services including new builds, commercial projects, remodels, renovations, and general design consultation. As architects, our job is to solve design problems and help bring your ideas to reality.

Alchemy’s completion of the first weeHouse in 2003, then just an inexpensive prefab cabin, gained international attention as a symbol of architectural optimism. Since then, Alchemy has widened its scope, developing the weeHouse as a prefabricated answer for cabins, houses, offices, rooftop studios, and multi-​unit developments, and has completed over 3 dozen prefabricated projects around the United States.

Meet the Business Owner

Geoffrey W.

Business Owner

A general impatience with business-​as-​usual led Geoffrey Warner to quit his day job as an architect in 1989 to get real, hands-​on experience. Since then, he has constructed buildings, furnishings, lighting – even kiteboards – in a wide range of materials using hand, machine, and CAD-​based processes of art and industry that maximize the impact of modest budgets through creative construction technologies.