Category: ARCHITECTURE: Low Cost Project Schemes Under 200k

Flitch House, a garden room extension in Trinity, Edinburgh, is a contemporary interpretation of the Category-B Listed house’s original Arts & Crafts ideals. Using a material palette of light-coloured Petersen brick, Douglas fir, and oxidised copper, the project provides new living and dining areas with an emphasis on craftsmanship. This creates a warm and welcoming sequence of spaces, complemented by a reorganisation of the ground floor of the house into a home suitable for entertaining and modern family life. In […]

The project is principally characterised by a new box extension with subtle internal refurbishment and alterations to an existing traditional 1930’s style detached bungalow situated in Glasgow’s Southside suburbs.  For our Client, a newly retired couple, the project requirements discussed a sense of wellbeing and how the home could be better transformed to accommodate comfort in their later life – An importance stressed on accessibility while offering a greater luxurious home living experience.  The brief, with a tight budget of […]

PURPOSE To create a contemporary simplistic property which respected its surroundings as well as retain a visibly active streetfront. BRIEF To create a light + spacious dwelling “on the footprint of a garage”, that gave total privacy in the centre of a busy town. The site is physically restrictive as well as needing to be respective of its Victorian Surroundings.  Following detailed analysis the final “active corner” design was preferred as it both maintained a formal streetscape along with private […]

This Grade B Listed property located within the Crookston area of Glasgow, was in need of modernisation, with the client looking to upgrade the ground floor living spaces and create a meaningful connection with the garden. The solution was to open up the ground floor creating a series of contemporary, open spaces that flow seamlessly into the garden. Internally, areas of existing sandstone were exposed in order to celebrate the character of the listed property and provide a contrast to […]

Our brief for a ‘Therapeutic Art and Design Strategy’, developed by Ginkgo Projects and NHS Lothian, asked to enhance a series of key spaces within the new Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh (designed by HLM architects). The Interview Rooms, Sitting Rooms, Waiting Areas and Drop-in Centre all aim to provide distraction and relief from the clinical environment.  To fully understand who and what we were designing for we took long walks with nursing staff through the hospital and […]