Architecture · Interiors · Masterplanning
A twelve-person practice working across housing, cultural and adaptive-reuse projects. We start with the site, the light and the budget — in that order.
Every project begins with a week on site and nothing drawn. We measure the light, walk the approach at three different hours, and read the constraints the survey does not carry — the neighbour's window, the way rain leaves the roof, what the client actually does on a Sunday. The drawing that follows is short because the thinking was long. Forty-one buildings later the method has not changed: fewer moves, better made, detailed to outlast the people who commissioned them.
A chalk-white family house set into a south-facing slope, half-buried so the roofline never breaks the ridge. Rammed-earth walls from spoil dug on site; a single clerestory runs the length of the plan and does all the lighting work.
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Foundry Row, Sheffield
The original brass-casting hall, re-glazed and left otherwise alone.
The Long Room, Copenhagen
Thirty metres of vaulted reading room, top-lit end to end.
Verdant House, Sussex
Rammed earth, lime render, one continuous clerestory.
Quarry Studios, Snowdonia
Six studios stepped into the slate, each with a north light.
New-build housing, cultural and civic work from feasibility through to handover. We take the project all the way; we do not hand it to a delivery architect at stage four.
Rooms designed with the building, not after it. Joinery, lighting and material schedules drawn in-house and specified to named suppliers so the tender is honest.
Listed and industrial buildings brought back into use. Heritage statements, consent negotiation and the structural sequencing that decides whether a reuse is viable at all.
Ten to four hundred homes. Block structure, movement and public realm tested against daylight, overlooking and viability before a single elevation is drawn.
A week on site, a measured survey, and a written brief we both sign. No drawings yet — the brief is the drawing that matters most.
Two or three tested options with an order-of-cost against each. You choose a direction knowing what it costs, not after.
The chosen option resolved to planning stage, with the consultant team appointed and the material palette fixed on real samples.
We run the planning application and the tender. Three contractors, one comparable specification, a written recommendation.
Weekly visits, monthly valuations, one point of contact. Handover includes an as-built set and a year-one defects walk.
“The plan is almost boringly simple. Everything interesting has been spent on the section, on the light, and on how the building meets the ground.”
The first conversation is an hour, on site or on a call, and costs nothing. We will tell you if the project is not worth doing.
A postcode, roughly what you want to do, and any deadline you are working to. That is enough for us to say whether we are the right practice.