Instagram: Attention to detail
We love to see our drawings becoming a reality, especially if the reality is created with such care for details and finishes.
Instagram: Work in progress
After fifteen months of careful detailed design we remodelled, retrofitted and completely rid of fossil fuel this detached house in Barnes. The early PHPP modelling highlighted the need to design out possibilities of overheating while encouraging both light and air movement throughout. We responded by interconnecting the new and old spaces, using natural materials of…
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Instagram: Garden pavilion
How nice to see our new pavilion emerging so neatly in the garden of a Grade ll listed house in Highgate. Its timber-framed base, sitting lightly just above the surrounding lawn on the network of screw piles driven into the soil beneath, quietly awaits the incoming wall and roof studs. Low embodied carbon construction with…
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Instagram: Another phase
Sibhaven, a Grade ll listed home designed by Michael Bunney in 1899 in the Garden City Movement style had survived largely untouched until 21st Century. After our phased and thorough redevelopment the building is subtly remodelled and fully retrofitted for a sustainable future with its listed design features remaining intact.
Instagram: Exciting times ahead
After many months of design work with engineers, sustainability consultants, manufacturers, suppliers and quantity surveyors it is fulfilling to see the project emerge fully shaped, fitting snuggly within its context and ready for construction.
Instagram: Reminiscing on the past
As nights draw in and we retreat indoors earlier and earlier every day, we look back over 3 years at the completion of this warm, light and calm, reconfigured and retrofitted apartment. It replaced the previously long and narrow lower ground flat of multiple dark and damp infested rooms. Our choice of limited palette of new…
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Instagram: Sustainable Garden Studio
A set of reusable screwpiles driven into the soil support the timber framed, timber particle insulated and timber slats clad garden pavilion, finished off by its own slice of garden meadow.
Instagram: Light in carbon
A bunch of screw piles in the back garden waiting to be driven into the ground, instead of many a linear meter of the usual mass concrete footings and reinforced concrete slab,Our carbon-footprint-light, timber-only garden studio will sit lightly in the garden of a listed house in Highgate. Only the purple brick step at its…
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Instagram: News from the site
A myriad of sustainable energy features neatly tucked away within these ply fronted cabinets make up a finely detailed nerve centre of a detached listed building. The only missing item is the weathering steel cloak of the exterior due shortly. Watch this space.
Instagram: Newsletter Autumn 2023
Our Autumn News from Mews