House on the Downs
A single-storey courtyard house in Sussex where every interior wall is cast against rough-sawn pine boards. The plan turns inward, away from the lane, to a garden of rills and concrete volumes.
Selected works
04-06Studio for a Furniture Maker
In north London, a deep-plan workshop wrapped in 300mm board-formed walls. Saw-tooth rooflights score the casting rhythm and flood the benches with cool north light.
Writing Pavilion, Kent
A small Tara-like pavilion for a poet, set into a chalk hillside. Inside, the tapering walls are cast in situ so the ceiling meets the floor in a single continuous concrete surface.
Material first. Ornament never.
Our discipline is concrete, not concrete as finish but as structure and sensation: the weight of the wall, the seams left by the formwork, the patina of lime and rain.
We design with two constraints. The first is thermal and structural honesty: no applied skin, no cavity cover-up. The second is timber forming: every line on the surface records a real plank, a real joint, a real decision at the moment of the pour.