NIDO High-Performance Home Design

NIDO Design — Modern home design studio grounded in Passive House and building science.

NIDO Design is a residential design studio producing modern private residences across the Pacific West from its base in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia. We believe that building science is the invisible engine that unlocks ambitious design, without compromising comfort or livability.

Our Principles

Comfort, Silence, and Resilience

Our experience in a home reaches far beyond the visual and is shaped just as much by what lies beneath the surface: thermal comfort, pristine indoor air, and acoustic calm.

Material Honesty

Timeless forms and unadorned materials — wood, steel, concrete — left to age and weather as they are, as part of the landscape.

Proven, Not Promised

Every design starts with performance modelling, not guesswork. A glass-walled home can look striking and still be hard to live in: too hot in summer, too cold in winter, and costly to run. We model how the house will perform before it is drawn in detail, so beauty and comfort are designed together.

Selected Projects