Most of our work involves consulting and designing with groups of potential building users. We do sometimes get involved in design of buildings for more straightforward clients.

Even here though much of our approach remains the same, with investment of time in detailed briefing, an informal but thorough process of exploring alternatives, and a commitment to involving as many as possible of the people who will use the buildings - directors and caretakers have equally valid viewpoints.

We we asked by a joiner (who'd worked on another of our projects and had liked the design) to produce proposals for an extension to existing outbuildings at his home. This needed to provide a self-contained holiday flat, plus extended workshop space for his joinery business, without major changes to the character of the outbuildings. The house is in the Green Belt, and the proposals needed to have a rural feel. Photos show existing (right, right below) and proposed (left below, below)