Accepting project inquiries in Texas and Azerbaijan
We engage in the irreducible human act of translating a family's life into a beautiful and functional home.
A current ongoing design study, exploring the balance of local materiality, cost effectiveness and cost-informed 3d modeling. A focus on allowing the raw attributes of materials express themselves as a simplistic take on beauty. The idea is to allow the resident to feel as though they are not removed from their landscape but living in it and with it.
Designed by Jason Casto prior to founding Tellurian, while at a previous firm.
Jason Casto · completed while at a previous firm
The architecture is arranged as a series of calm pavilion-like pieces connected by glass, shade structures, and a pool court that becomes the social center of the site. Heavy masonry anchors the house while dark steel, warm wood, and broad overhangs keep the composition light, open, and livable at sunset.
Jason Casto · completed while at a previous firm
This project reads as a family of simple agrarian forms rather than a single oversized mass. Repeated gables, covered parking, and low planting give the home a grounded, durable character, while the cobbled motor court and generous porches turn everyday arrival into part of the architecture.
Jason Casto · completed while at a previous firm
Here the project is driven by massing and section: bright metal roofs, dark connectors, masonry plinths, and a bridge-like courtyard spine create a house that feels both familiar and experimental. The rotating axon views show how each wing frames outdoor rooms, terraces, and vertical movement as part of one continuous composition.
Tools we build and use in-house. Even pre-launch, the studio already runs on its own building-science instruments — and they're open for anyone to try.
Founder · Residential Designer
Across years of residential practice — including the houses shown under Prior Work the same conviction kept surfacing: a home should be designed around the person who will live in it. Tellurian is the continuation of that work under his own name, pairing warm, place-rooted architecture with the building-science rigor behind the studio's tools.
A home is not a product — it is a vessel for memory, relationship, and the quiet rhythms of daily life. The dining table that holds your family's laughter, the living room that witnesses your children grow — these are not rooms, they are the architecture of a life well-lived. We design knowing that the ordinary, built with intention, becomes extraordinary.
Great design can't be rushed. A home you'll inhabit for decades deserves the time to plan, design, and build it right — for owner, designer, and builder alike.
You're trusting us with the most significant object you may ever inhabit. We work relationally, building trust before we build anything else.
Clear documentation, honest timelines, open communication, and rigorous detail — so your builder and your family have confidence throughout.
We design for the specific vernacular of where you live — its landscape, craft traditions, and the particular character of place — seeking to preserve and celebrate the local. Healthy families, connected to one another and their surroundings, build better communities. The home is where that begins.
Custom residential design — full-service home design that translates your family's life into a place that will last generations, from program and site through material and detail.
What we bring that can't be automated: the human capacity to synthesize program, site, culture, and material into spatial form — and to design spaces that deepen as life is lived in them.
“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”