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Architectural Design Service in Hertfordshire

Collaborate with us in designing your unique home.

We design for you and with you, aiming for the best end result without being confined to a particular style or method. This leads to collaborative and creative designs that suit the site, your wishes, and the specific geography of your property.

Although we’re Hertfordshire-based architects, our team work on projects throughout London and the Home Counties. Our award-winning projects are extensions of their natural environment, creating homes that fully integrate with their surroundings. We are also a member of the Hertfordshire Association of Architects (HAA).

The practice works on the following types of projects:

  • Modern new-build homes and apartments

  • Traditional homes with contemporary interiors

  • The design of inspiring community spaces and landscapes

  • We work with housing associations and local authorities to create affordable housing for a mix of tenures.

  • Projects in the Green Belt, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the rural area

  • Extensions and enhancements of Listed Buildings and buildings within conservation areas

If you’re at the very start of your project, you may instead benefit from our other architectural services. This includes our architectural consultation, in which one of our experienced architects will visit your home and walk you through the design process as well as the options for your space.

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Design Approach 

Bespoke Design

A bespoke design transforms the aspirations and interests of a client into tailored home. It also responds to a unique environment to create a sense of place, so that a bespoke home feels like it has evolved from its surroundings.

Local Materials

We design with quality local materials wherever possible and use finishes which weather over time naturally to enrich your living experience. The grain on a piece of timber, the firing marks on brickwork, chisel lines on stone all connect a material to the place from which it originated and the craftspeople who created it.

Scope of Options

We use the full repertoire of tools available within our architectural design service so that we can provide varied and exciting options for our clients. This means we design for you in the best way to achieve the optimum end result and are not led by a preconceived style. This leads to collaborative and creative designs that suit the site and the specific geography of your property.

Sustainability

We believe all new-build and refurbished properties should aim for the highest levels of energy efficiency and use renewable and sustainable materials wherever possible. We therefore aim to meet exacting performance and ecological standards within our architectural design service.

We believe in a fabric-first approach and therefore recommend high levels of insulation an airtightness and the use of renewable heating systems.

We design projects that push the boundaries as far as we can towards zero carbon outcomes.