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A workplace built around how the team actually works

A growing company taking its first building

  1. 01A workplace built around how the team actually works
  2. 02What changed
  3. 03Selected projects
  4. 04Thinking about a project?
A workplace built around how the team actually works

Not an open plan, and not cellular offices either.

The challenge

The client had assumed open plan and their team’s work was largely focused and confidential. The default would have been actively wrong.

What we did

We observed the work for a week before drawing anything, and designed a graded plan — quiet, semi-open and social — with acoustics treated as a primary decision.

The outcome

Occupied for two years without alteration, which is the only test that matters.

Results

What changed

3
grades of workspace
2 yrs
in use without change

Projects

Selected projects

Residential, commercial and cultural work.

A rear extension that changed the whole house

A family in a Victorian terrace · Residential

A rear extension that changed the whole house

Not much more floor area, and a completely different house to live in.

A workplace built around how the team actually works

A growing company taking its first building · Commercial

A workplace built around how the team actually works

Not an open plan, and not cellular offices either.

Thinking about a project?

The earliest conversations are the most valuable ones. Get in touch before the brief is fixed.

Discuss a commission
A listed barn brought into use

A private client · Heritage

A listed barn brought into use

Consent granted at the first attempt on a difficult building.

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