Tag: residential

Sturton Street, Cambridge

Sturton Street, Cambridge

Client: private

Location: Cambridge

Contract value: confidential

Service: Full Architectural service

Accessibility is now a core aspect of an architects work. Ensuring projects meet both the legal requirements for accessibility and the needs of individual clients is key to the success of a project. We create buildings, places, and spaces that work better for everyone by making inclusion a key part of our work.

Sturton Street is a four-bed terrace in Cambridge. The client needed to make the house and garden accessible for a wheelchair user. We prepared plans and in consultation with an occupational therapist agreed with the family the best way of adapting the property to meet their changing needs.

We converted one of the main downstairs rooms into a bedroom with a small extension to provide a fully accessible wet room. The entrance was adapted to give level access from the street through the house and out onto a new area of decking with a ramp leading down into the garden.

As well as the accessibility aspects of the project, the family took the opportunity to improve the aspect of the houses onto the garden and add a small side extension to create a farmhouse style kitchen with dining table and sofa space.

This was one of those projects were you feel you make a difference to a family’s life beyond the everyday work of an architect.

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.