GRBS

19/01/2026

GreenHaus Part 2

16/01/2026

GreenHaus is a low-energy residential prototype designed around passive solar principles, integrated food production, and simple, maintainable systems.
A central greenhouse acts as both a growing space and a thermal buffer, bringing daylight deep into the home while helping regulate indoor temperatures.

Solar slabs, Trombe walls, careful orientation, and high insulation reduce the need for mechanical systems and keep operational energy low.
Conceived as a repeatable model, GreenHaus explores how architecture can quietly support daily life through passive performance and spatial clarity.

11/09/2025

Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow

Once called the Willow Meadow, Sauchiehall Street grew from a leafy 19th-century avenue into Glasgow’s cultural heart, lined with theatres, dance halls, and department stores.

Into this context, Barry Wark proposes a bold architectural intervention: a monumental form that rises like an urban cliff. Its surfaces are carved, textured, and porous — a terrain as much as a building. Designed to host moss, ferns, and vegetation, it suggests a street where nature and architecture reclaim common ground.

It is less an object, more a landscape — a civic topography for a city that thrives on reinvention.

Design by: Barry Wark

Render by: GRBS

16/12/2024

GreenHaus.

06/12/2024

GreenHaus- two more shots showing the project in a different light.

05/12/2024

Inspired by low-tech traditional architecture, trad-tech GreenHaus is a collection of spaces
designed to promote living in harmony with natural forces, while keeping expenses low
throughout the building's lifecycle. Passive solar principles are employed to meet most
energy demands. A unique façade design pre-heats incoming air, enabling all external
components to actively contribute to solar gains. The greenhouse is integrated as a key part
of the structure, enhancing the well-being of its inhabitants. Materials were chosen based on
an optimal balance of factors such as durability, affordability, accessibility, and low carbon
emissions.

07/10/2024

Bar that could have been. Revisiting old projects- stripping the walls and have my cousin spray paint the ceiling? Client had different ideas.

25/03/2024

18/03/2024

In collaboration with Revere Agency