'Whatever you choose to change or create, we are here to provide you with help, support and guidance and to inspire you to make the right choices.
We draw, model and organise our way to a solution using the insights that you provide us with ensuring that you are always at the centre of this process.
You are the architect of the changes that you make’
A friendly Architect based in the South West with a passion for helping residential clients adapt, extend and conserve existing buildings.
Adapt.
Firstly, let us work with what you already have!
Analysing what currently works or requires improvement will allow you to maximise your existing home . This will save you money!
Extend.
Sometimes it will be necessary to extend!
When extending, let's make sure this addition is efficiently planned and practical for day to day living. Let us also be sympathetic to the existing when considering any addition.
Conserve.
We love working on existing buildings!
We hold the necessary experience and have a sympathetic approach when it comes to gaining planning consent in the most challenging of circumstances and planning sensitive locations.
Alchemy Annex.
This subservient annexe extension to a sixteenth-century farmhouse gives home to a young family of four. Set within a protected landscape and a desire to live close to parents, presented an interesting challenge when negotiating permission. Finished in Bronze cladding to complement the original stone house, with large elements of glazing offering views to the countryside surrounding this idyllic home.
Fockrock Apartments.
A residential development located in a suburb of Dublin. The scheme benefits from a courtyard and street which allows external access to individual duplex properties, rather than access gained from stuffy, unventilated and dark corridors. The scheme has been split into four blocks which are linked with transparent circulation space allowing views through the buildings to prevent them being read as a whole and large mass stuck on the site.
St. Nicholas Villa.
A homeowner with welcomed aspirations to create something well-considered and grounded upon this site, abutting a designated area of landscape significance. The proposal needing reduced height as not to disrupt important views of the Village Listed Church. This opportunity allowed for defining forms that separated both living and sleeping areas, given the house, contained five bedrooms. The primary living space on the first floor offers unobstructed views over the rolling fields.
Dale Mews.
A constrained site in a suburb of Cardiff offered a design opportunity to define a different form of development from that of the immediate context. The proposal looks to offer two apartments with private external spaces and more importantly definable independent entrances. Everyone should benefit from these simple necessities, even in the smallest of developments.
Meet Adam.
‘Adam has been in practice from the age of seventeen and fortunate to experience first hand how buildings are put together from being introduced to construction by his father from an early age.
Adam is a natural designer, he thinks rationally on his feet, he is a whiz at problem-solving and has a lucky entrepreneurial streak. Adam is a passionate believer in the power of architecture and good design to impact the quality of our lives. He believes that the architectural quality is vital not only in our large public buildings but equally in small interventions.’
— Rebecca Samuel
Testimonials.
Philosophy / Psychology of Home
— If you are visiting this place now, you will be entering a process of great change to your environment and your life. This is a time of great potential and for making the right choices.
‘A wholehearted home frames the complex patterns of living, while leaving room for individual experience. It underpins the needs of the people who live there, while giving freedom for expression. It should have plenty of light, require the minimum of maintenance, and yet be warm and comfortable. What works and is modern in a human way is a combination of laissez faire and supreme control, a mix of the relaxed and the precise. Our homes should grow with us. Life isn't fixed so spaces can't be either.’
— Ilse Crawford
Your Environment.
Your environment speaks volumes about how you live and who you are: your past, your present and your future.
The first stage of your project is introspection, defining how you live and identifying those things that may need to change so that your new environment works seamlessly for you.
Your home, building, landscape should be a source of joy and inspiration and it will change and grow with you.
The Frame.
So in order to define what you need, I must first get to know you. I begin the design process by asking a series of questions that require honesty and will provide me with a series of insights into the small details of how you live. It is only then, that I can take these insights and provide you with an ultimate solution that is not an imposed crude perfection or a ‘set piece’ but a comfortable building to inhabit.
Tailored to You.
If I feel that the conclusion you may already have arrived at isn't right for you, I will explain why.
I can provide you with as little or as much support as you need. It may be a complete design service or take the form of a report on how I think you should proceed. This may be a combination of photographs, sketches, annotated plans and observations providing you with a framework and a way forward with your project.
Get in Touch.
Let’s take the first step together!
Arrange a Home Consultation.
The first step is the most important in starting a project!
A consultation offers the opportunity for us to meet and discuss your needs and the all-important ‘Wishlist’.
It allows me to better understand the project and offers an insight into the way you live.
The Home Consultation also allows me to talk through the process and demonstrate relevant case studies that will provide reassurance that you've found the right Architect!