AsOne is a philosophy of creativity shaped by the quiet phenomena of nature.
It is the creative studio of architect and artist Paul Hunnicutt — founded on the belief that architecture and art can emerge from the creative intelligence of the natural world.
AsOne explores nature as a creative entity. Its subtle forces, patterns, and behaviors become conceptual tools that guide our work — first in architecture, then in artworks and objects that extend the same ideas across different mediums.
At the core is the idea that Everything is Everywhere. Ideas migrate, overlap, and influence one another — just as elements in natural ecosystems do — creating a cohesive design language that connects form, material, space, and experience.
With three decades of architectural experience and a lifetime spent searching for conceptual ideas, Paul Hunnicutt merges creative inquiry with the discipline of building — allowing ideas to move from the conceptual world into reality.
AsOne is based in Boulder, Colorado, a town aligned with nature.
It serves as a living laboratory for exploring the creative potential of the natural world.
A Creative Intelligence
Nature holds a quiet intelligence — a set of subtle forces, patterns, and dynamic conditions that shape the world. I searched for this intelligence long before I had words for it, in the places where I spent most of my life: mountains, forests, deserts, cliff sides, and coastlines.
Through climbing, cycling, hiking, surfing, and photographing landscapes around the world, I learned to read these quiet conditions — the way light gathers, how patterns repeat, how materials shift, and how time transforms form. Over years, these observations became a way of thinking: a creative system hidden within the natural world.
This is what I call creative intelligence — the ability of nature to generate ideas.
It is the foundation of all our work at AsOne, guiding the concepts that shape architecture, artworks, and objects.
The Quiet Phenomena of Nature
This creative intelligence reveals itself through what I call the quiet phenomena of nature — subtle forces that shape the world without calling attention to themselves. Shifting light, branching structures, erosion, accumulation, movement, uplift, life in a forest canopy, cloud forms, leaf shapes — conditions that unfold slowly, repeatedly, and often invisibly.
These phenomena are not metaphors or symbols. They are conceptual tools — ways of seeing, thinking, and generating ideas.
By studying how these phenomena behave across time and scale, they become catalysts for design. Our work unfolds from this creative potential that exists in nature. A branching pattern might influence circulation; erosion might shape an entry sequence; uplift might define form; light gradients might organize a room. A single phenomenon can unfold into countless architectural and artistic possibilities.
We return to these phenomena again and again because they always reveal something new — a shift in behavior, a pattern emerging at a different scale, a direction we hadn’t imagined. Through them, we develop architecture and artwork that grows from natural intelligence rather than mimicking natural form.
From a single idea, entire worlds emerge.
A Philosophy of Searching
AsOne grew out of a long personal search — years spent looking for ideas in the natural world and trying to understand how they could shape design.
The quiet phenomena of nature don’t reveal themselves all at once.
The more you pay attention, the more you find — and the deeper they go.
I learned that the creative potential of a project often begins with this kind of slow noticing, looking at a condition long enough for it to suggest something unexpected.
This ongoing search sits at the center of AsOne:
an inquiry into how ideas form, how concepts shift and evolve, and how they can move between architecture, artwork, and objects.
Each project allows the search to continue and expand.
It’s a way of working that stays open and responsive — allowing ideas from nature to loop into the next project, the next artwork, the next object.
A continual cycle of observation and creation keeps the work moving forward.
The Studio
AsOne is based in Boulder, Colorado — a town where being outdoors is part of daily life, and where the surrounding mountains are a constant presence. Here, nature isn’t separate from the studio; it’s an active part of the process.
The studio itself is intentionally conceptual and experimental — part architectural workshop, part art space, part research lab. It supports a way of working that moves fluidly between architecture, artwork, and objects, allowing ideas to develop across different mediums.
We treat the landscape as a living laboratory for exploring nature’s creative potential. And while Boulder shapes our daily practice, the search for ideas extends far beyond it — into deserts, forests, coastlines, and varied landscapes around the world.
Paul Hunnicutt
Paul Hunnicutt is an architect, artist, and the founder of AsOne.
His work grows from a lifelong relationship with the natural world and more than three decades of experience shaping architecture through conceptual ideas.
His full background, influences, and creative history can be found here:
Paul Hunnicutt Biography
Working with AsOne
Every project begins with a conversation — about place, ideas, the way you live, and the experiences a home can create.
We work closely with clients who are open to exploration and who see architecture as both a functional environment and a creative act. are interested in residential architecture shaped by nature
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