Our practice has experience in the following fields: 

• Range of low carbon, sustainable architecture
• Low tech approach
• Natural lighting, natural ventilation & solar gains
• Super insulation within timber frame
• External insulation
• Breathing structures
• Strawbale insulation
• Recycled insulants
• Natural materials
• Bio-diverse green roofs
• Achieving Air-tightness
• Zero carbon dwellings
• Passivhaus/AECB Standards/CSH

We believe that building design should be:

• Repeatable without depletion of resources
• Efficient in the use of energy 
• Low in embodied energy  (materials, sourcing & transport)
• Affordable 
• Aesthetically inspiring
• Low impact on environment
• Beneficial to the local community in terms of resources and skills

We adopt the following approaches to design:

• Design from the ground up using simple efficient materials and methods
• Concentrate on removing need for energy input instead of generating more to satisfy existing demand
• Work on a low - tech, simple and efficient model (reducing build costs)
• Learn from the past when energy was not so cheap

In every project we consider and analyse the following:

• Site opportunities and constraints
• Aspect
• Local style, vernacular and precedent        
• Materials selection
• Individual / local need
• Potential local renewable energy sources
• Proximity to services
• Opportunities for exemplar, inspirational design
• Integration with and celebration of our local heritage and landscape

As an important part of design we try to encourage the following:

• Design out waste
• Design around pure unrefined materials
• Strive to standardise sizes, lengths, materials and processes
• Consider construction with repetition (including modular)
• Develop clear strategies for construction waste recycling, reclamation on and off site
• Design to the local strengths and skills