Contemporary Architecture Bristol / Bath
Since 2006 our studio has been producing award-winning projects throughout the UK. Distance and a different landscape charges our creativity and in more remote areas of the UK, we have worked with local architects to realise our buildings on-site, ensuring efficiency and economy without compromise.
As our studio continues to work with new clients across the United Kingdom we have recently been busy working on some exciting new residential architecture in the West Country, a region rich in history and cool. We currently have three projects in development within the region, two of which we cover here in a little more detail.
Utsuroi House, a modern low energy home, located on the outskirts of Bath, the UNESCO World Heritage city with immaculate Georgian architecture and its warm honey-toned stone. Equipoise House, located further south in Devon near Taunton and the Quantock Hills. This is a large modern home that celebrates open plan living, material authenticity with an abundance of light and water.
Equipoise House
The house is a pavilion of glass and light to provide an environment to live among a private world among the silence of nature.
The home celebrates the hydrological cycle: Due to the personal affinity our client has with water, we have developed this narrative as a central theme to the design. Metaphorical moats collect rain from the sky within sinuous lines of luxury and exuberance. These lap pools become a symbol of vitality and calm, an attempt to bring water into play as a visual celebration of life.
Utsuroi House
This low energy home constructed from wood is influenced by ‘eastern and western notions of space-making’. Celebrating the culture of our clients who spend time in the UK and Japan.
‘Utsuroi’ is a timeless Japanese spatial concept, meaning a gradual and inevitable change from one state to the other. This translates directly into the spatial and tangible experience of the home. From the approach, through to the inner and outer courtyard - to be one of constant change, flow, enclosure and release.
The home is located high on a hill on the outskirts of Bath looking northwards over the unfolding rolling hills of England. If you would like to read more about this project, its ideas and our studio. DesignWanted recently conducted an interview with us.
The core thesis of these projects is to create residential architecture that is personal, individual and life-affirming to the people that live within them. Capturing the spirit and notion that in this life - anything is possible.
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