Work in Progress: the next ten years

Architecture projects have notoriously slow gestation periods, and this means we don’t often get the chance to share new work. We’re taking this opportunity to look ahead, with sneak peeks of some of the projects in the pipeline that have seen us through a tough year. With the economy shifting, and people reevaluating their priorities, we anticipate the focus shifting to building and reinforcing communities, and look forward to the opportunities ahead.

The images below are picked from the design development process: some are necessarily abstract, whilst others may emerge emerge from the process in a very different form.

Rehearsal Rooms

We’ve been working with a globally renowned arts organisation to design a new Studio space for their London home.

With a design is shaped by internal and external forces, our job is to balance these: The essential studio requirements of height, heat, light, and acoustics add up to a simple box, which needs to sit within an environmentally sensitive site alongside prestigious neighbours.

Our approach steers a path between these constraints, with a use of simple materials and subtle forms that are drawn from local industrial heritage and are literally reflective of their surroundings.

Industrial Renovation

The first impressions of any building yield surprises. In this case, an industrial building without obvious charms reveals lush textures as you get closer. A former food production facility, years of use have created gorgeous patterns where syrupy spillages hit rough concrete.

By latching onto points of interest like this, we can feed them back into the design at a later stage - as the basis of a colour paette, or as inspiration for 3D form.

New Studios

As the practice evolves, our focus on building communities makes us a natural partner with studio providers - from long standing providers like SFSA to new and ambitious start-ups. Producing sketch visuals at an early feasibility stage gives the team a common vision of the destination ahead, and fleshes out submission documents to unlock funding.

Green Shoots

One of several community garden spaces on the drawing board, and always an enjoyable type of project to work on - how to use a small urban site to its maximum potential.

A fast track process means ideas have to move fast, and the satisfaction in adding a splash of green to an empty patch of city centre is huge.