Tag: architecture

Gwydir Street #1, Cambridge

Gwydir Street #1,
Location: Cambridge
Client: private
Contract value: confidential


Energy efficiency is core to our approach to architecture. This project, for a family in Cambridge, involved re-ordering of a terrace house to accommodate the changing spatial needs of the client, whilst bringing an old house up to modern standards of energy efficiency.
We seamlessly introduced a heat recovery and ventilation system to remove damp stale air and provide warm fresh air throughout the house. Rainwater was harvested; this is used to as a grey water supply to flush the toilets reducing the burden on Cambridge’s over stretched water aquifer.
The project was finished off with bespoke storage units for the kitchen and living room.
Many projects have been for clients who have raised a family in their home and want to reorder the property to suite their changing needs, reduce running costs, and reduce their impact on climate change.

Gwydir Street #2, Cambridge

Gwydir Street #2,
Location: Cambridge
Client: private
Contract value: confidential

Working with the clients we proposed a sketch scheme to meet there brief for an attic extension, side extension and garden music room, for their terrace house in Cambridge. The project allowed for staging of the works. We secured planning and building control approval, assisted in the appointment of a contractor and two of the three elements of the project built.
The side extension provides a suntrap for morning coffee and the music room a welcome retreat for contemplation and the practice without disturbing the neighbours.
Inspired by a Japanese tearoom, the music room is self-contained. It is timber lined in English grown larch sawn boarding with an oak floor, a mezzanine sleeping level, reading nook, slate lined shower room, roof lights, and bay window with a deep seat from which to watch the birds in the garden. The building is masonry construction, slate-roofed and the front elevation is treated with tared hessian to create a building which in time will recede into the gardens herbaceous planting.