Selected Works / 2020–2024
Six buildings, chosen for what they omit.
We complete a handful of projects a year, so the body of work stays small enough to stand behind every line of it. These are the six we show. Each began as a volume of air, and the structure was set around it.
Index of works
- 01Court of Stones2023
- 02North Light Rooms2022
- 03The Quiet Hall2024
- 04House Between Walls2021
- 05The Long Room2024
- 06Field Pavilion2020
Open a project
Select a work to read its drawing, site and brief.
We would rather build one room properly than a whole house in a hurry. The work is small on purpose.
Edda Marlowe / Principal
How a commission becomes a building
Four moves, drawn before they are built.
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01
The empty plan
We draw the void first as a flat orthographic plan: the rooms, the court, the thresholds, set out as volumes of air on bone paper.
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The cut section
The same plan is cut and stood up. Mass appears as poché; light is poured in as a single shaft. Plan and section are read together, never apart.
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Material decided
A short list is fixed: board-marked concrete, oiled oak, lime plaster, blackened steel. No finish is chosen that we cannot detail to the joint.
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Built, then quiet
On site we hold the drawing. When the building is done it should feel as if it had always been there, and as if very little had been added at all.
Enquiries
A project of your own?
We take a small number of commissions each year. If the timing is right, we would be glad to talk.