A2L Architects
Architecture communicates through space, proportion, and silence. Most architecture firm websites betray all three — cluttered grids, restless navigation, photography reduced to thumbnails. When this firm approached us, they had a precise and uncompromising vision: a website that would operate the same way their buildings do.
*The iframe uses real data from the website. Do not fill out any forms or make any actions unless you want to use the website.
No scrolling. No conventional UI. Only image, space, and intention — and a cursor that becomes the sole instrument of discovery. We built exactly that: a full-screen visual experience navigated entirely through a custom cursor, where the work speaks first and the interface disappears.
Custom Design · Next.js · Sanity
Removing conventional navigation is a radical constraint. It doesn't simplify the problem — it relocates the complexity entirely into interaction design and content architecture. The challenge was threefold: making a deeply unconventional interface immediately legible to any visitor, organising a rich body of work across multiple project types and categories without menus or filters, and keeping it all editable by a small team who shouldn't need a developer to publish a new project.
We designed a layered canvas — categories, projects, image sequences — navigated entirely through a custom cursor that morphs contextually to guide without instructing. The content model lives in Sanity, assembled at build time by Next.js, so every transition is instant and the team publishes independently without touching code.
We wanted visitors to feel they were moving through a building, not browsing a website. Every click should feel like opening a door.
— Founder, A2L Architects