01 Private Residence Architecture · Interiors · Planning
Homes shaped by light, stone & quiet luxury.
Rives Homes is a residential architecture studio composing bespoke homes of enduring calm — where proportion, material and natural light are arranged into a life well lived.
15 Years
of practice
of practice
120+ Homes
delivered
delivered
14 Design
awards
awards
In Studio Maison Aurelle — Côte d'Azur
2025 Commissions
open
open
Interactive Floor Plan
Step inside, in three dimensions.
Explore a Rives residence room by room — orbit the cutaway model, study the proportions, and trace how morning light moves from the kitchen to the living pavilion.
- Orbit Drag to circle the residence
- Zoom Scroll to move through the plan
- Walkthrough Right-drag to pan each room
A live model of Maison Aurelle · Apartment 04
3D Walkthrough Tap to launch
Est. 2009 · Geneva
The Studio
A practice devoted to the art of home.
For fifteen years, Rives Homes has designed residences that feel inevitable — as though they had always belonged to their setting. We work slowly and deliberately, from the first line to the final finish, in close partnership with the people who will live within.
Our architecture is quiet but precise: generous volumes, honest materials, and a patient attention to detail that turns a house into a sanctuary.
Rives Collective Founding Partners
01 Restraint
02 Material truth
03 Light & proportion
Selected Work
Recent commissions.
A small selection of residences currently in studio or recently completed — each a dialogue between client, climate and place.
01 Private Residence 
02 Coastal Villa Maison Aurelle
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03 Lakeside Estate Villa Lumière
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04 Penthouse Refit The Meridian Penthouse
View project The Practice
What we do.
Three disciplines, one conversation. We hold every layer of a home — from the massing on the land to the bronze pull on a drawer — so the result feels of a single hand.
01
Architectural Design
Ground-up residences shaped to site, climate and the rituals of daily life — from concept through construction documentation.
- Concept & feasibility
- Schematic design
- Construction documents
- Contractor liaison
02
Interior Architecture
A continuous hand from shell to surface — joinery, stone, metalwork and finish, resolved as one coherent composition.
- Spatial planning
- Bespoke joinery
- Material palettes
- Styling & curation
03
Master Planning
Estate-scale thinking — sequencing buildings, landscape and light across larger sites for coherence that endures generations.
- Site strategy
- Landscape framework
- Phasing & feasibility
- Heritage integration
Enquire
Begin your project.
Tell us a little about your site, your timeline and the life you imagine within. We take on a limited number of commissions each year to give every home our fullest attention.
Studio 14 Quai du Mont-Blanc, Geneva, Switzerland
Telephone +41 22 555 0149
Email studio@riveshomes.com
Hours Mon – Fri · 09:00 – 18:00 CET
— The Rives Collective