Ruined House: Staring on site today, Ruined House is the remodelling and extension of a 1980s, H-plan, pattern book bungalow. Set high up on a ridge in Cromer, north Norfolk, the existing house fails to capture the sea views to the north or open up to the woods to the south.

The design adds a series of site-specific, flint-clad interventions around an over-sized flint chimney: interventions that appear to pre-date the existing house and, conversely, appear as the ruin around which the existing house was built.

Completing in Spring 2021. #ruinedhouse #hayhurstandco #norfolkarchitecture #home #houseextension #cromer

Garden House: Lovely to see Garden House re-published on @archdaily this morning. One of our favourite homes for the amazing @whitakermalem completed in 2015.

Happy Sundays.

Photo Credit: @kilianosullivan

#gardenhouse #hayhurstandco #archdaily #homesoflondon #london #architecture #home #oneoffhouse

Education Research: This week Jonathan has been leading a session at the Association For Learning Environments (A4LE) ‘Designing Spaces for Future Focused Schools: Beyond COVID’ conference.

Jonathan was looking at how we might find opportunities for positive permanent change to the design of existing learning spaces in the light of new technology and teaching practices rather than the implementation of temporary mitigation and pop-up solutions as a response to the spread of an infectious-diseases.

Issues discussed included openings, table design, information graphics, visibility and connections to outside spaces. Small modifications with small capital investments but with large impacts.

#education #learningspaces #schooldesign #schoolsforthefuture #a4le #beyondcovid #beyondcovid19

Lockdown look: The planters we designed for the fourth floor terrace at the RIBA are looking great and the plants are surviving lockdown thanks to the green-fingered security guard.

The design includes mobile, irregular-shaped planters and seats set at different heights that tesselate to form a continuous balustrade to the terrace.

Project Architect, Claire Taggart, took these photos on her visit this week. We are looking forward to this space being used by the Clore Learning Centre when 66 Portland Place re-opens.

@riba #clorelearningcentre #66portlandplace #outdoorlearning #plantsofinstagram #planters #roofterrace #outdoorclassroom #creativebalustrades #balustrade

In Education: We are pleased to share some of the work that Nick’s students have carried out as part of the MArch ‘Future Practice’ module he runs @soad_brighton.

The module encourages students to explore the potential agency of the architect in contemporary society and to reflect on their own professional ethics and design practices. All of this year’s papers taught and written under lockdown.

1. Nam Vu: Urban Greening: An exploration of the GLA’s Urban Greening Factor (image of St Paul’s being retrofitted to meet Urban Greening Factor)
2. Una Harran: Kindness and the activist Architect
3. Annette Saavedra: Post-human Practice

STaught with @hollyjeany and @tberongoy and with contributions from @joseph_zealhenry Alison Courtinho from @brickbybrickldn and Wilf Meynell from @studiobark.

#architecturestudents #studentwork #futurepractice