Dwelling
‘Jenny has great ideas and imagined things that I don’t think anyone of us would have seen. She is also extremely practical with the technical ability to put those ideas into practice.’
Wendy & Graham Pink
Our ethos
The home owner/occupier seeking to extend, adapt, re-use or build new can ensure their project meaningfully contributes to a sustainable and abundant future through a range of local and global benefits from energy security within the home, to a reduction in carbon emissions to supporting the growth of low carbon materials within the building sector.
Most of the dwellings that we have designed are in Wales which is characterised by its temperate, changeable weather and high rainfall. A certain ruggedness is required of the Welsh home as it steels itself against another winter.
Transitional spaces between the indoors and out are a tactical response to the weather here. Spending time in a glass conservatory on a bright cold day and under a covered veranda on a warm wet day mitigates the darkness and the rain, allowing a person to exist at the threshold of the outdoors, with all the benefits that immersion in nature offers.
Our design ethos is broadly inspired by The Tao of Architecture which explores how the human quality of a physical environment is manifested through shaping the intangible, unseen qualities of architecture through the balance of its tangible and seen elements.
Sustainability
The home owner/occupier seeking to extend, adapt, re-use or build new can respond to this ambitious framework on a site-specific basis, ensuring that each project can meaningfully contribute to a sustainable and abundant future through a range of local and global benefits from energy security within the home, to a reduction in carbon emissions to supporting the growth of low carbon materials within the building sector.
See Craftedspace approach to sustainability
Service
We offer a personal service to our clients and create holistic and innovative solutions with our network of surveyors, engineers, ecologists, analysts and fabricators.
To date, we have had a 100% planning success rate for all our schemes across conservation zones, National Parks and using Section 106 agreements; working closely with planning consultants, officers, clients and neighbours to create optimum outcomes for all, through dialogue and often lateral thinking.
As a small practice we are skilled at delivering projects which require a degree of agility and/ or sensitivity towards the existing context.
We use the RIBA Plan of Work 2020 to plan and execute projects. You can read more about this tool and the process of commissioning architecture here.
And your project:
You value good design…
Building sustainably is important to you…
You are a homeowner seeking to adapt or build new…
You represent a community led housing project and seek strategic input…
You want to make a One Planet Development proposal…
You want to connect with a network of experts…