About us

Ethos

The practice places ‘why’ at the heart of philosophy, we are here to help realise our client’s aspirations, to produce beautiful buildings and places and to enhance and protect the environment.

Process

To achieve our ethos, we focus on listening and being proactive. We work with our clients to understand their motivations and needs and aim to provide the best service we can.

We believe that ‘places’ and context should drive our designs and they should have nature and the environment at their heart.

We are open minded and positive and we look to lead change to improve the quality of our service and designs.

We have a ‘team’ philosophy and will work with stake holders in an open collaborative way to establish the constraints and brief for our projects.

We will endeavour to explain and respond, produce clear concepts and designs and bring all parties into the process avoiding silo thinking.

Our designs aim to combine space, light, context and materiality to achieve harmonious and beautiful buildings and places.

We will deliver our designs with care, accuracy and robust detailing, we will listen and take on feedback, work collaboratively and professional with all parties and keep our client’s aspiration at the heart of the process.

Sustainability

Bio-Diversity

We believe in nature being at the heart of our designs and aim to protect and enhance habitats and environments. We look for opportunities to ‘design in’ nature into our buildings and the spaces around them to enhance biodiversity and improve habitats for fauna and flora.

Save energy and reduce emissions.

We have an architectural first approach to minimise energy loss through passive design and high thermal efficiency.

We aim to maximise the use of renewable energy sources and reclaiming energy where possible. We look to safe guard embodied energy & carbon to cost effectively reduce long term CO2 emission throughout the building’s life cycle.

As part of the design process, we will look to save and reuse at all valuable resources and design in water saving measures such as rain water harvesting and sustainable drainage.

We will look to source materials responsibly, save CO2 generated by construction and recycle and reuse were possible.

Culture

We aim to foster a culture of professional service, equity and opportunity, a positive mind set, a progressive and listening attitude and an enthusiasm for architecture.

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