Category: ARCHITECTURE: Residential

The project comprises three family townhouses in a new mews on the site of a former church hall to the north-east of the Grade B listed St James Church in Portobello.From conception, the intension was that the mews design would both enhance and preserve the style of the area, while being sympathetic to the existing listed church building. Inspired by the ‘linked villa’ style typical of Portobello’s Brighton and Rosefield area, the garage of each property is set back from […]

  The project is the latest phase of the Maryhill Locks masterplan, the design brief for which was to create thirty-three sustainable and flexible 3 and 4 bed terraced houses.  The site is complex due to the level changes (7m) across its overall narrow condition (17m at its narrowest point).  Due to the tight site, both parking and bins are arranged directly off the street to the front of the dwellings, however these have been dealt with in a holistic […]

Originally an outbuilding used as a piggery, the building was converted into a two bedroom dwelling 15 years ago. Keen to achieve another bedroom with an extension and improve the layout of the house, Hyve were approached. The resulting design included a master bedroom and en-suite in a new extension, relocating the living space to be adjacent the kitchen, and opening the ceilings in the existing building to make the most of the original buildings character,  bring in more light […]

Located amongst the ruins of an 18th century ‘fermtown’, Drummargettie is a new build home in the heart of the Cairngorms, Scotland for two passionate hill walkers keen to live in the landscape they have spent years trekking. The building strikes a balance between a formal response to the landscape and provision of a practical, economic and energy efficient home.Strategies for the occupation of the site were developed closely with the client, culminating in a response to three defining features […]

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 […]

Located on the Isle of Skye, this mobile micro-home prototype was developed as a small, low cost, thermally efficient, movable house, designed for the rural landscape. The Client’s initial brief was for a ‘small but not tiny’ one-bedroom house on the site. However, after discovering that the ground conditions were poor, formed from made ground and could not support traditional foundations, a ‘mobile house’ concept was developed. The 30sqm house contains three main spaces, which are open to the apex, […]

The brief for Carra springs principally from its site, along the Northwest coast of Scotland, looking naturally to the sea and free from light pollution.  Working initially with Robert Steedman, we were asked to follow a plan figure that took the existing house back to its simple original form, stripping it of lean-to extensions and separate sheds used the existing house as a “hinge” from which to turn and site the new house orthogonally to the old and on an […]