Doorstep Living
Community Wealth Building
Green Culture
Tactile Materials
Creative Urbanism
Heritage and Reuse
Doorstep Living
We treat the doorstep as lived infrastructure, a place to plant, swap, collect, greet and claim space. These everyday acts give residents creative expression and lend a distinct character to their home. These are the hinges that support sociable density, neighbourliness, incidental play, and the subtle rituals that turn a cluster of homes into a lived in community.
Our projects embed spaces for earning, trading, learning, repairing, and growing. We future proof local economies, making room for micro enterprise, shared ownership, and social infrastructure. Community wealth building becomes a design tool, shaping frontage, tenancy strategy, and long term stewardship
Community Wealth Building
Green Culture
We prioritise habitats, shade, biodiversity and growing space woven through streets, courtyards, roofs and thresholds. Productive landscapes, trees close to the architecture, vertical greening, breathable bio based materials, and urban places where nature is an active participant.
Tactile Materials
Materials shift character as light, weather and daily rhythms move across them. We choose those that invite touch, spark curiosity, and hold the character of their setting with surfaces that catch a silhouette, or scatter sunlight. We favour materials that are repairable and improve over time, that root a building in its place and give ordinary spaces a lasting, sensory depth.
Creative Urbanism
We never approach a masterplan as tabula rasa, or a blank slate. Every place has a DNA, historic patterns, desire lines, odd corners and long standing typologies, even if this has been erased. Our work tunes into this particularity rather than smoothing it out. We cartoon, sketch, test, and model with communities and clients, co creating mixed use, gentle density neighbourhoods.
We treat heritage as an active, working asset. Sometimes, that means stripping back to the concrete frame and giving it a high-performing warm new coat, reinventing fenestration, and introducing energy systems that empower users. Other times, we find bold moves that flip the vibe, retain crafted moments and celebrate the building’s role in the neighbourhood.
