Our services, designs and approach are always tailored to you and your project. These links give more details on our most common types of project as well as some key philosophies that drive our approach.
New Homes
Creating a new home, either through the conversion of an existing building, or a new building, is a unique chance to create a place that is bespoke.
Reconfiguring and often extending your existing house, is a great way to get the space, style of living and a personal touch that would bring new life to your home.
Our Retrofit Advice Service is here to help remedy problems in existing buildings, which might be cold or draughty, by improving comfort levels... with the added benefit of reducing your energy bills!
Our team brings an eye for detail that really makes your design sing! In realising your concept design, we refine the material choices, buildability, comfort and durability, and consider junctions between these elements to express your preferred design style.
Environmental Design
We are proud to say that environmental design is our specialism. Follow this link to read about our approach and what we look to prioritise.
How a building is crafted during design & construction really shines through in the character of the finished spaces. We highly value the skills and workmanship that go into creating a successful, long-lasting building, often collaborating with other tradespeople.
Affordability
We discuss your budget and what might be achievable for this budget at an early stage. We will then constantly evaluate the design in the context of your budget, and work with you through to completion to ensure that your project is achievable.
Clarity
We hope to provide clarity through all that we do. We want our relationships with our clients to be open and trusting. If you have questions or concerns, we always want to have an open discussion, and see where we can help.
Materials
Materials give rich character, quality, texture and sensitivity to our buildings. This is part of our bespoke approach, we will always work with you to chose materials fitting with your project.
Comfort & Low Bills!
Your project shouldn’t be too cold, or too hot. It should be comfortable, have fantastic air quality, and be free of nasty chemicals. This ethos inherently reduces your energy bills. How do we do this? See Environmental Design
Collaboration
Collaboration is key throughout our process of designing and building a project. Whether this is with you, within our studio design team, with external consultants or the people who will build your project.
Context
Designing with respect to the immediate context is hugely important to us. A design has to work with its surroundings, to ground it within the locality and add to it's longevity.
Enerphit
We have the skills inhouse to design retrofit projects to meet the Passivhaus Institute's rigorous Enerphit standard. Take a look at our Passivhaus page to see more.
Natural Light
We believe that access to natural light is essential in any design. Research shows natural light in buildings has a massive impact on our health and wellbeing.
Conservation
We love the rich heritage and character of our existing buildings. We believe in a sensitive and respectful approach to working with existing buildings.
For You.
This is Your Project, not ours. We will listen, and our aim is to create designs that reflect you, your needs, your preferences in design and reflect the way that you live.
Digital Modelling
We use the most up to date and advances Building Information Modelling (BIM) software to achieve the best output for our clients. This enables us to fully detail our designs in 3D so we can explore every angle with you.
#ArchitectsDeclare Climate and Biodiversity Emergency
We are committed to the aims and agenda of Architects Declare.
All of our team have experience of construction, through personal and research projects. Our knowledge from the build process feeds into our designs and confidence of what we can expect onsite.
