This design for six houses in Rock, Cornwall combines traditional green oak frames and prefabricated structurally insulated panels with a palette of both modern and traditional materials. The houses range in size from 4 to 5 bedrooms each individually designed to maximise views over the Camel Estuary and make best use of the tight site.  (Photos courtesy of SKDA.)

The site was originally the Salcombe Gasworks which became occupied by a gasholder before it was decommissioned and demolished in the late 1970s. It is tightly nestled on three sides by residential, utility and industrial neighbours.

The project is comprised of 6no 3-bed houses above a residential car park and food retail store and is designed in a contemporary design using a local palette of materials.

We were delighted to work as architects and passive house designers with private clients in Somerset to realise their dreams for a new passive house. The house has recently received its Passivhaus Certification – many thanks to Etude!

We converted an agricultural barn with Prior Approval into a new five bedroom house. Make Group helped us deliver the project on site with support from structural engineers, Build Collective, M&E consultants, Greengauge and Ross Management Services.

The Barn was shortlisted for Future Leap’s Sustainable Building Award, 2022.

Blue Jay is a contemporary country house on Esher’s Claremont Estate. It is 13,000 sqft with 5 bedrooms and a pool. Its driveway once formed part of Kinfauns, George Harrison’s former house and its original gate featuring fan graffiti has been re-used. The house is set in a listed 2-storey walled garden and is planned in a cruciform shape around a central atria. The shape of the building forms four individual courtyards, each with its own purpose and character. The house was a UK Property Awards winner in 2014.

We are excited to be undertaking a design for a new 5-bedroom home in Hampshire. With views towards the landscape to the south, the house incorporates first floor balconies with a deep overhanging roof that provides plenty of passive solar protection.

The house has a dramatic double height space through its centre that connects the public and private rooms on two floors and this is expressed externally with a projecting canopy at the entrance.

We have adopted a fabric-first approach to energy with the design and the house will incorporate well insulated walls and roof, with triple glazed windows, MVHR and an air source heat pump.