Woohoo… new plants for the studio… 🌴🌴🌴 Going in for the Spitalfields jungle vibe…

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Our team were delighted to be joined by Luisa and Ima from Harris Academy Falconwood sixth form last week, who came for a week’s work experience in design, model-making and presentation. They got stuck into designing a live brief: family houses on a small infill site behind the office, proposing a top-lit 2 bedroomed home to deal with overlooking and a balcony for outdoor amenity.

They started by surveying the site by hand, drawing and modelling the context to scale, then looked at precedent projects for tight sites within and outside of the office with a trip to end of year shows for inspiration. They developed their proposal by hand and in SketchUp before presenting to the team on Friday afternoon for their first architectural ‘crit’.

Luisa plans to apply for undergraduate courses in architecture next year, whilst Ima is heading for interior design. We wish them both the best of luck and look forward to seeing their designs in the future!

Thanks to Ruby, Temi and Sahba from Hayhurst & Co team from supporting this.

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We are delighted to be shortlisted for BD Individual House Architect of the Year 2022.

In the 5 years since we were last shortlisted, we have been working on a range of new-build homes and low-carbon retrofits of existing homes around the UK. Working with amazing clients, our buildings have formed R&D testbeds for sustainable forms of construction and homes that have been sculpted to suit the owners and their sites’ specific contexts.

The projects featured in our submission were;

Grain House: A re-ordered Victorian house with new circulation wrapping around an external courtyard formed crafted from 6 species of timber for different purposes. A garden studio takes the form of a magical imaginary woodland creature nestling amongst the trees.

Green House: A new-build home for a photographer centred around an awesome, riad-style courtyard and with a verdant, planted front elevation. The home is constructed from CLT, heated via an ASHP and with a natural stacked ventilation strategy.

Messuage House: A deep retrofit of a Grade-II listed house and extension that reads as a series of garden structures stepping up a steeply-sloped site. The landscaping forms a luscious ring of planting around the existing house.

Re-found House: An artist’s home and studio, the new house uses recycled demolition waste from the existing site with crushed rubble and concrete waste formed into terrazzo slabs by a local manufacturers to form a ruinous and luminous outer skin.

Good luck to all the practices shortlisted: @napierclarke @erbarmattes @eldridge_london_architects @mclarenexcell @fletchercranearchitects @shedkm @denizen_works

Fingers crossed for 18th October when the winner will be announced.

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We are delighted to be shortlisted for BD Education Architect of the Year 2022.

In the 6 years since we were last shortlisted, we have been working with a range of amazing schools and learning communities to deliver exemplar low-carbon spaces for teaching and learning around the UK. Our projects range from single spaces that enable new forms of STEM teaching through to whole schools that capture the ethos of their communities.

The projects featured in our submission were;

Edith Neville Primary School: A new-build, urban school set around a public-open space and constructed from CLT. The school is centred around a family-scale courtyard that welcomes the community in and an internal ‘gallery’ for exhibition and gathering.

Torriano Primary School: An active STEM lab is created from the conversion of an unloved two-storey turret in this existing school. Constructed around laminated ply portals, is a series of spaces for carrying out different types of science experiments.

Peterchurch Primary School: A new-build passivhaus, NZC 1FE primary school constructed in CLT and clad in thatch in rural Herefordshire. The project was co-designed with pupils and staff and includes a nurture hub and outdoor classrooms.

Clore Learning Centre; A learning space for children of all ages, the Clore Learning Centre at the Grade-II listed RIBA promotes active learning about architecture. The space creates a series of delightful and adaptable interventions to encourage learners to think about the spaces around them.

Good luck to all the practices shortlisted: @waltersandcohen @jmarchitects @sheppard_robson @fcbstudios @henleyhalebrown @iidarchitects @cottverm

Fingers crossed for 18th October when the winner will be announced.

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Woo hoo… We are delighted that our Green House in Tottenham is one of six houses that has been shortlisted for ‘House of the Year’ in the British Homes Awards for houses under 2,500 sq/ft.

Congratulations to the other practices @sw_arch @pad_studiouk @rxarchitects @napierclarke @hlmarchitects

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More on Green house to follow…

Photo credit: @kilianosullivan

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