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Robin Nicholas

London Basement
Our project in Kensington which forms one large family home from 4 separate flats with the addition of a basement and further extensions is progressing on site.  The project incorporates several sedum roofs at different levels and large format Roof Lights to ensure all areas are flooded with daylight. In addition to the use of[...]

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Shape Architecture has gained planning permission to create a family home through combining a two storey flat with the hairdressers it shares part of the corner site with.  Also co-opted into the family dwelling will be the single storey store rooms used by the hairdressers.  All the accommodation will then be set around a courtyard[...]

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In a similar fashion our stair to a large project in Kensington that sees three flats amalgamated into one house is located in what was the lightwell between the flats and the open side of the lightwell is the closed with an eight metre drop of glass ensuring that the stair and the open landings[...]

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There are many advantages to incorporating a green roof in your project.  Our portfolio of green roof projects at Shape Architecture illustrates that projects of size and type can benefit from the addition of a green roof. Below we lost a number of these advantages Why should I choose a Green Roof? Firstly, the appearance[...]

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Shape Architecture continues to design projects of all types and sizes incorporating green roofs and brown roofs.  Through the practice Director Jason Wren we offer twenty years of experience in designing green roofs, ten of which are in the portfolio of Shape Architecture.  These range in type from intensive grass roofs to sedum roofs and[...]

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Shape Architecture continues to develop its presence on a variety of Architectural and Interior design Websites including Houzz. We have a great deal of feedback from our Clients that such design websites are of real value in sparking ideas and researching products and approaches.  Our portfolio has been awarded the ‘Best of Houzz 2016 –[…]

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Shape Architecture was commissioned to undertake the redesign of a Country House near St Albans. The brief was to make it a more energy efficient contemporary building that opened up onto the gardens that surround it. We have upgraded the thermal performance of the building fabric through the addition of thermal insulation board to the[…]

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Following the success of our Fulham basement extensions and particularly those in the ‘alphabet streets’ Shape Architecture was selected by a local developer to undertake a large basement extension and whole house development in Stevenage Road opposite Bishops Park. In our portfolio of fifteen Fulham Basements, this project is one of the larger ones and[…]

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In our fifteen Fulham basement extensions portfolio, this basement project is one of the most recent to gain planning permission. Located in the Alphabet streets in Finlay street, it sits near many of our other basement projects completed over the last few years. The project was awarded to Shape Architecture through client recommendation. The brief[…]

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As a continuation of our Fulham basement project, we take a closer look at a successful project nearing completion at Finlay Street in Fulham. Like many projects, the brief follows a tried and tested formula executed across the board with private residences in Fulham. The first step is taking the initial L-Shaped victorian footprint and[…]

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Visualisation of St. Dunstans, Fulham, London St. Dunstan's Road is one of the fifteen basement extensions in Fulham undertaken by Shape Architecture over the last few years in the borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. We design basement extensions in London in many other boroughs from Kensington and Chelsea to Richmond and Camden. It is in Fulham,[...]

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Working as architects in Fulham our fourth basement project in a portfolio of fifteen Fulham basements was again in Ellerby street and once more through Client recommendation.  Natural light enters the heart of the basement and is one of the projects great successes. This part of the home at both basement and ground floor levels[...]

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