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Project Update: School Masterplan
Designscape have teamed up with Greenhalgh Landscape Architecture to deliver a Vision Document and Masterplan for the future of Westonbirt Schools.
We’re hiring
We are currently seeking an ambitious and talented Project Architect with at least 5 years post qualification experience to join our busy studio in Bath to work on a wide variety of high quality projects – residential, education and commercial buildings, often including listed buildings and sensitive settings.
The Cowshed – Planning Approval
We are delighted to have obtained Planning Approval for a new home in Bradford-on-Avon, positioned within the conservation area and situated adjacent to a Grade II Registered Park and Garden.
2020 in review
It seems fitting to review 2020 a couple of months into 2021, but despite it being a challenging year all round, Designscape have still worked on some great projects – from attaining new and exciting clients, to seeing a number of projects progress onsite. A collection of these are summarised below.
Priory Close – Planning Approval
The existing house is very much a product of its age – subdivided into disconnected small, boxy rooms. Our design reconnects these spaces, creating larger, functional rooms which are less constrained. A double height extension is proposed to the east, which allows both the central kitchen and the new lounge to enjoy the spectacular views over the garden.
Westland Farm – Planning Approval and Listed Building Consent
We are delighted to have obtained Planning Approval and Listed Building Consent for an extension to a Grade II listed house in Wiltshire.
The proposal includes the demolition of the C20th conservatory to make way for a new glazed extension, accommodating a new kitchen and day room which seamlessly links to the adjacent garden.
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High tech, low carbon in a Cotswold village
A constrained site, adjacent to a listed building, called for a creative, sensitive and highly contextualised response. The clients were looking for a house that would enhance access to their garden, increase privacy, improve flow through downstairs and provide a downstairs bedroom.
Study Trip 2022
Last month we had the first annual study trip of two years – a time to strengthen our team and build our skills together. In an effort to live out a commitment to reducing our carbon footprint, we kept our explorations within the UK, and set off one Friday for sunny Sussex.
Our journey to Zero Carbon
The biggest impacts of Climate Change are being felt most by the poorest people in the world – those who have the smallest carbon footprint, the least resilience to deal with the consequences, and who have done the least in the past to create the problem.
Choosing an architect
Clients often approach us with only an outline idea of their project – for example they need more space or feel there is a disconnect between their house and garden – and can’t see how best to find a solution. They feel a need for architectural insight and advice to bring a project to life; This is where we begin to add significant value. We help our clients to explore and refine their needs before responding with concept designs, often introducing ideas beyond what they had imagined possible. Not only does this help both parties ensure they are on the right path to a viable solution, but also that the solution has an expert’s insight to make an elegant proposal that gets the absolute maximum benefit for the money spent.
The BIG C
The case for making the assessment of embodied carbon in buildings a mandatory requirement. The really big “C” this year is not Covid or Cancer, or even Christmas…but of course it is Carbon. Strange that it is one of the most common elements on the planet and makes up about 12% of the human body and the fourth most common element in the universe. The amount of carbon on the planet has not changed since the planet was formed 4.5 Years billion years ago, but the problem is that we keep taking it out of the earth and putting it into the atmosphere in the form of CO2, causing a warming of the climate.
Architects Declare Conference 2019
As part of our commitment to respond to the Climate Change Emergency, Spencer Back of Designscape Architects reports from the first Architects Declare Conference.
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Our Approach
From residential homes and commercial housing schemes, to art galleries, offices, agricultural and high-tech manufacturing buildings, we have extensive experience of designing architectural solutions for all environments.
Carbon and our work
The biggest impacts of Climate Change are being felt most by the poorest people in the world – those who have the smallest carbon footprint, the least resilience to deal with the consequences, and who have done the least in the past to create the problem.
Big Sheds
View on ISSUU Used to cover a number of diverse building uses from manufacturing and storage/distribution to data centres or sports, our thinking on Big
Designscape Portfolio 2017
View on ISSUU A selection of completed projects. Portfolio 2017.
Neros Foundation Report
View on ISSUU We are proud to support the Neros Foundation through our links to one of the trustees, Cara Sykes. The Neros Foundation is