WHO WE ARE

We HELP PURPOSE-DRIVEN PEOPLE CREATE VALUE - places that people love!

We are an award-winning architecture practice driven by a deep belief that we can make the world a better place. We therefore specialise in sustainable and regenerative design & development; making exciting places and buildings with people at the heart of our process - while being kind to our planet.

With an expertise in designing highly sustainable and regenerative projects, we work across sectors including housing, masterplanning, civic buildings, and strategic policies. Certified in Passivhaus and Retrofit (PAS 2035), we work on complex sites that require us to think deeply about how we draw-out unique and place-based solutions. We achieve this through being data-driven and research & insight-led, responding within our framework of: people, place, planet, and profit.

The spaces we create are thoughtful, joyful, connected, and regenerative; places that promote health and well-being; and places that add value to our clients’ assets.

We believe in excellence and equality, and choose our clients and projects based on these principles. We love working in new & exciting sectors and are always keen to collaborate.

As experts in residential-led developments and strategic place regeneration and creation, our analytical approach allows each project to respond uniquely to its own context (physical, environmental, and socio-economic); creating places & developments that deliver added-value for our clients; and experiences that enrich, empower, and connect communities.

FEATURED PROJECTS:

NET-ZERO HERMITAGE MEWS

Beautifully Sustainable Townhouses Bringing the Outside In

LITTLEHAMPTON HOUSING

Fifty new High-quality homes around a rich public realm

PURLEY REGENERATION

Successful and Sustainable placemaking on Purley High Street

CHEVIN PARK RETROFIT

Sensitive conversion of Grade II Listed hospital to beautiful apartments

PORTSLADE HOUSING

Passivhaus design as part of Brighton Council’s Hidden Homes Programme

WATLING GATE MASTERPLAN

Exciting landscape-led residential development with ‘play’ at its heart.

TRIPOS PAVILION

Students as experts for accommodation and pavillion

CAM LOOK II, PASSIVE HOUSE

5-Bedroom new-build Passive House, constructed in CLT timber frame

KENT PASSIVCABIN

Working with the land to overcome flood-zone challenges

BRIXTON COMPETITION

Competition in Brixton. Images: Studio Egret West

GRAHAME PARK

Woodland Walk Townhouses; part of Notting Hill Genesis & Barnet Council regeneration

RETROFIT AT SCALE

Retrofitting to PAS2035 requirements following successful SHDF grants.

HITHER GREEN HOUSING

New build of 50no. high-quality and sustainable homes in Lewisham, London

HATCHAM DESIGN CODE

National Model Design Coding (NMDC) for Southwark Council

MASTERPLAN IN DUBLIN

An ambitious masterplan promoting Regenerative Development

THE DIRECTOR’S CUT RETROFIT

Deep retrofit of an existing home in a Conservation Area in the beautiful countryside

THE TIMBER HOUSE RETROFIT

Soaring ceilings in a sustainable Timber Home Flooded with Light

THE MUSIC BOX

Retrofit of an existing Church building featuring a new entrance

RESIDENTIAL CONVERSION

Sensitive conversion of historical building into 9 apartments

WALNUT WAY

Vaulted Ceiling in new extension lights up gorgeous home

WATERLOO STATION

A masterplan vision for the transformation of the busiest transport hub in the UK

RESIDENTIAL CONVERSION

Redevelopment of commercial to residential use and existing building retrofit

SANDGATE MASTERPLAN & CODE

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

THE DOMINOES CLUB

Refurbishment of the Grade II Listed Community Center in Brixton

HARLOW+GILSTON TOWN

Design coding for ambitious sustainable development.

GARAGE SITES DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

Designs for a range of garage sites in Suffolk. 

RE-WILDING THE CROFT

A vision for a residential-led masterplan of an underutilised site in Tamworth

EPPING FOREST STRATEGY

Design Coding for sustainable residential developments

SOUTH COTTAGE GROVE

Chicago: a new community centre, sparking a renewed sense of place & identity

WALTER HOUSE

Generous senior living accommodation designed to increase quality of life

R-HOME

Bringing the outside in; the Garden-Courtyard Home