Architecture

Common themes run through our approach to housing architecture of all types and scales.  These themes are; order, humanity, sustainability and beauty.

Order.

A design in an ordered state is one where there is a framework, at any scale, which contributes predictability and a degree of repetition to the whole. Such order need not be to the complete exclusion of counterpoint, punctuation or occasional surprise. Nonetheless, an overall sense of order is a necessary prerequisite as a framework for composition, to facilitate comprehension, to enable repetition, and therefore economy of means – which in turn allows application of sufficient resources to ensure quality in the individual elements of design.

Humanity.

The built environment should support human wellbeing and enjoyment at a profound level – offering genuine social value. Human well-being means the state of being comfortable, healthy, and happy, and human enjoyment means offering delight or pleasure as well as allowing occupants to obtain a sense of possession and direct benefit from ownership (not necessarily in the legal sense) of the built environment. Thus social value should be an evident outcome of projects and the quest is to identify how this is to be obtained from their design, development and in use.


Sustainability.

Good homes must deliver more than the basic prerequisites of avoiding the waste of finite resources, poisoning the environment both outside and indoors, or leaving the environment in a depleted state such that those who come after are disadvantaged. Our interdisciplinary approach is to work with co-professionals, clients, and stakeholders with whom we endeavour always to aim for incrementally better performance - the built environment we co-create must eventually become regenerative, so as to offset existing underperforming elements.

Beauty.

We strive for designs that are beautiful, designs that display harmonious proportion, robust materiality, and a clear relationship to human scale (even the large ones). We believe that the manufactured aspects of the built environment should also allow significant space for the natural environment to flourish alongside. Natural beauty is to be found in providing for biodiversity in the built environment, known to offer psychological benefits and to stimulate sustainable behaviours. Despite the subjective nature of beauty, it should always be possible to point with conviction to ways in which the output of our work merits the description. This can be in terms of colour, shape, proportion, texture, form and maybe all of these.

Architecture

Common themes run through our approach to housing architecture of all types and scales.  These themes are; order, humanity, sustainability and beauty.

Order.

A design in an ordered state is one where there is a framework, at any scale, which contributes predictability and a degree of repetition to the whole. Such order need not be to the complete exclusion of counterpoint, punctuation or occasional surprise. Nonetheless, an overall sense of order is a necessary prerequisite as a framework for composition, to facilitate comprehension, to enable repetition, and therefore economy of means – which in turn allows application of sufficient resources to ensure quality in the individual elements of design.

Humanity.

The built environment should support human wellbeing and enjoyment at a profound level – offering genuine social value. Human well-being means the state of being comfortable, healthy, and happy, and human enjoyment means offering delight or pleasure as well as allowing occupants to obtain a sense of possession and direct benefit from ownership (not necessarily in the legal sense) of the built environment. Thus social value should be an evident outcome of projects and the quest is to identify how this is to be obtained from their design, development and in use.

Sustainability. Good homes must deliver more than the basic prerequisites of avoiding the waste of finite resources, poisoning the environment both outside and indoors, or leaving the environment in a depleted state such that those who come after are disadvantaged. Our interdisciplinary approach is to work with co-professionals, clients, and stakeholders with whom we endeavour always to aim for incrementally better performance - the built environment we co-create must eventually become regenerative, so as to offset existing underperforming elements. Beauty. We strive for designs that are beautiful, designs that display harmonious proportion, robust materiality, and a clear relationship to human scale (even the large ones). We believe that the manufactured aspects of the built environment should also allow significant space for the natural environment to flourish alongside. Natural beauty is to be found in providing for biodiversity in the built environment, known to offer psychological benefits and to stimulate sustainable behaviours. Despite the subjective nature of beauty, it should always be possible to point with conviction to ways in which the output of our work merits the description. This can be in terms of colour, shape, proportion, texture, form and maybe all of these.

Projects

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