2025
Platform House
Florida Keys
Platform House is a collaboration between Arrived Aliens and Tropica, located in the Florida Keys. The project explores how architecture and interiors can grow naturally from the surrounding landscape.
The house is set on a large, open platform—an abstraction of the local environment. Shellcrete surfaces, a reflecting pool, and planted mangroves blend seamlessly into the bay, allowing the home to dissolve into its setting. This approach invites inhabitants to live at the scale of the landscape, not just within the boundaries of architecture.
Inside, materials continue the dialogue with the enviroment. The dining space is anchored by a custom table with sculptural legs, inspired by intertwined palm roots. Its material references the fluid shapes of midcentury fiberglass furniture, blending organic structures with a sense of futurism. Fullgrown chairs — trees cultivated into chair forms — mirror the mangroves just beyond the glass.

Natural materials continue into the kitchen nook. A built-in curved sofa wraps around a custom table in Florida Keystone, resting on sculptural wooden bases. The walls are clad in oolite stone, tying the space to the local geology.


The living room is centered around a large oolite stone fireplace, its rough surface giving weight and texture to the space. Above it, a circular ceiling opening draws in natural light, a quiet reference to the limestone springs found across Florida.
Our Fen Sofa, modular and two-sided, reinterprets midcentury Space Age seating systems. Its layout allows people to sit facing either the fireplace or the bay.

Smaller elements express the same tension between material and shape. The Fold Chair by Olivier Grégoire explores the futuristic potential of fiberglass, but leaves the surface raw, with visible fibers that give it a more organic, tactile presence. Our Onda sconce, with its smooth silhouette and raku-fired surface, captures the beauty of controlled imperfection.

Wooden paneling throughout the kitchen and private areas references Old Florida midcentury homes, where natural wood was used to soften the relationship between architecture and the tropical climate. Kitchen surfaces, clad in Florida Keystone, a coral stone quarried in the Keys. A painting by Kristina Aksentova, inspired by Greynolds Park, captures the shifting patterns of Florida’s landscape.

In the bedroom, the use of materials becomes even more direct. Dark wood paneling covers the walls, continuing the idea of connecting to Florida’s midcentury houses, but in a more graphic, structured way. The furniture is low and simple, designed to stay close to the architecture. On the floor, a custom rug from our Traces series adds texture. Its form and surface are drawn from the outlines of found coral, connecting the room back to the project's larger focus on local nature.

