For some companies, an office is merely a vessel for getting stuff done. For others, it’s a showcase and calling card for their craft. When Knowhow Shop, a design and fabrication studio out of Los Angeles, started thinking about its new office, it immediately knew the space should be a test bed for some of the studio’s more radical ideas and materials.

The designers came up with the Lighthouse, an angular bunker of a building constructed out of lightweight prefabricated panels. From certain angles, Lighthouse looks a little like a geodesic dome gone wrong—and we mean that in the best way possible.

Knowhow Shop founders, Kagan Taylor and Justin Rice, designed the space to be deliberately experimental. “This is not a project that we would have been able to hand off to a contractor to execute, so we bypassed the normal methods of architectural production, and relied on the most experimental potential of our design/build model,” they said.