New Craftsman Residence
Central Florida, USA
The owners – a family of 10 – desired a smart, efficient layout to provide space for large gatherings and day-to-day activities. They commissioned us at the very earliest stages to help them develop the vision, architectural design, and construction drawings for the new house. The exterior features traditional Craftsman-inspired details, HardyShingle siding, tapered columns, decorative corbels, and gable roofs. We encouraged the use of a deep wrap-around porch on the southern and western facades to provide shading and natural cooling in the hot Florida climate.
Read our Case Study here: Designing a Family-Friendly Craftsman Style House in Florida
Two New Residences
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
This pair of new residences is situated in the Nashville residential neighborhood of the Historic West Town, one of the city’s popular, emerging historic areas filled with Victorian, Craftsman, and Cottage-style homes dating to the 19th century. While designing the project, we explored the juxtaposition between old and new house forms. The contemporary traditional design not only embraces the iconic, house-like forms of the surrounding context but also reinforces the proportions, setbacks, materials, and massing found in the area’s historic architecture.
Read our Case Study here: A Pair of Custom Designed Houses on a Narrow Lot in Nashville, Tennessee
New Terraced House
London, UK
A London developer commissioned us to design a new build, 3-storey terraced house on a compact site occupied by an old, single-storey garage in the London Borough of Hackney. The exterior design is inspired by the traditional proportion, detailing, and materials of nearby Victorian maisonettes, and sought to respect the visual integrity and established scale, rhythm, and massing of the adjoining terrace.
New Traditional Barn
Lizton, Indiana, USA
The owner of a picturesque, 40-acre property situated in the beautiful rural landscape of central Indiana called upon our insight of designing with proportion, symmetry, and traditional forms to help bring to life her vision of constructing a new post-and-beam barn. We developed a cross-shaped plan with four identical gabled facades, a form that was inspired by precedents in history, yet was uniquely shaped for a barn situated in the Midwest USA.
Read our Case Study here: New Traditional Barn in Indiana, United States
Boutique Townhouse Development
East Gosford, Australia
This project was for a new residential development of 7 boutique villas and townhouses. We set out to develop a layout that presents light-filled, inviting homes, while also supporting modern and comfortable living. In order to address the site context, we organized the dwellings into two separate buildings arranged around a central courtyard with manicured gardens and lawns.
Read our Case Study here: Boutique Townhouse Design in East Gosford, Australia
New Traditional House
Ironbridge, UK
This new build detached house sits on a vacant plot minutes away from the famous Iron Bridge, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Due to the sensitive location of the property, the planning council required particular attention on the size, detailing, and arrangement of the windows and doors, which include brick camber arches over side-hung casement windows and a bracketed canopy above the solid wood main external door. The direction of the design – a traditional double front house – was noted as appropriate for the area. The design is strongly influenced by the scale, massing, and proportions of the historic buildings in the surrounding context.
Read our Case Study here: New Traditional Brick House in Shropshire, England
New Pool House
Guildford, UK
This new pool house sits in a scenic location on the grounds of a large detached house adjacent to a green belt area. The traditional timber structure replaces dilapidated stables and an overgrown tennis court, bringing new value and use to the property. The proposed design takes a symmetrical, purposefully simple form due to planning constraints on height and building mass.
Contemporary Rural Dwelling
Borehamwood, UK
The client wanted to achieve a low-lying, simple, discreet building in the rural scenic landscape of southern Hertfordshire. The brief was to design a contemporary house with minimalist details and light-filled spaces open to nature. To minimize visual impact, the house consists of two volumes: one above ground, the other hidden below ground, opening to a sunken garden courtyard.
Contemporary Apartment Building
Atlantic County, New Jersey, USA
The aim was to create practical, spacious homes with a contemporary design aesthetic, while also experimenting with modular shipping containers as an alternative construction method to help reduce costs. The proposed development will have five spacious units and will be constructed using 36 shipping containers.
London Mews Houses
Dagenham, London, UK
Our proposed design for six mews houses aims to be a traditional reinterpretation of the iconic London mews. The site presented many constraints during the design phase, including tight boundaries, overlooking, and conservation area appraisal criteria. Furthermore, large-scale 1970s demolitions resulted in the loss of the majority of buildings that formed the village which had dated back to the 14th century. These demolitions vastly disrupted the urban fabric and sense of it being an ancient settlement. Thus, our goal was to reintroduce new traditional dwellings that could bring back some cohesion, appropriate scale, and sense of enclosure that the village once had.