Empathise and engage

If there’s one thing we’ve learned makes better buildings, it’s empathy. Architecture never happens in isolation—and simply by being interested and engaged, we’ve found it’s possible to open up the conversations that connect a scheme to its clients and community.

Weconstraints

We believe that the more constraints there are, the better the architecture. If there aren’t any constraints, we create them. Challenging sites, existing buildings and complex briefs almost always present incredible opportunities for great design.

Passive future

To limit our environmental impact, we start with what is already there. By manipulating the form and fabric of a building—whether new or existing—we can work with the existing conditions of topography, light and orientation, and harness the natural energy sources offered by air, ground and water.

Social detail

If a site’s constraints guide the bigger design decisions, then it’s empathy that informs the smaller, social details. These details frame the human narratives that aren’t included in the brief, anticipating specific moments in the users’ lives.

Mud on our boots

Good architecture is as much about what happens on the building site as it is about what’s on the drawing board. By working alongside contractors as well as clients we can ring-fence the ideas and details that matter, championing quality and sustainability throughout construction.

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Following the latest announcement from the UK government on its plans to allow primary schools in England to reopen to some year groups from June, we have developed a new design concept to address the challenges which many schools in the UK and beyond will face when they reopen in maintaining the necessary social distancing among pupils and staff.

Together with BOB Design, we have produced a mailer on Pop-up schools for leaders in education across the country, explaining how our concept supports a safe return to school. This led to several schools commissioning prototypes and Pop-ups that provide a rapid expansion in classroom provision to enable socially distanced learning over the coming months.

See our Pop-up schools initiative here

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