Our main priority is helping clients make great architecture that serves their needs and responds in a vital way to its context and cultural surroundings. In order to do this and to further the studios own knowledge base we invest in a wide programme of research which enables us to be inventive and to find new and sometimes unexpected solutions to the problems that we are posed.
We work in collaboration with like-minded consultants in order to further our thinking and skill level and since our inception, we have always looked to develope concepts grounded by good research that have a light touch on the planet, are low in carbon and energy-use. We look to our research to help us and our clients mitigate the impact of climate change.
squirrel chase
Squirrel Chase is a detached house located in Surrey and is typically arranged with four bedrooms, a loft and two distinctly separate ground floor family rooms with the associated kitchen, dining facilities all facing the garden to the rear.
The existing well-mannered façade and openings are not unusual for the typology of home and the external spaces are set out as a large patio area, level with the house and a large well-manicured lawn area with overhanging trees, providing a pleasant aspect from the family rooms.
The clients brief called for greater connectivity between the family rooms and the landscaped areas, a new gymnasium area, utility space and outdoor kitchen | dining facilities.
The design proposals envisage a new brickwork and oak loggia stretched across the entire house width, linking a new utility pod with a newly created outdoor kitchen/gymnasium pod.
The loggia provides, areas for outdoor dining, shade to the family rooms and creates a new holistic link for all of the houses existing components to connect sympathetically to the landscaped areas.
