Home Office Design Shape Architecture has always designed bespoke furniture and very often as a part of a home office design. Here we have explored a variety of designs for a one and a half storey space. Storage, shelves and platforms make for an interesting and very useful space in which to work. A[…]
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Courtyard Office – Clapham Shape Architecture has been asked to look at this back land site in Clapham to create a small office filled with light. The site is challenging due to its size and being bounded on all sides by garden walls. Nonetheless we have designed a building which when accessed[…]
Access to a Roof Terrace Access can be gained to roof terraces in a number of ways. Sometimes a door gives onto the roof terrace, and this might be from internal circulation. If this is not possible and you are accessing the roof terrace from below then a series of design options present themselves,[…]
Clapham Roof Terrace As we continue to gain planning permissions for roof terraces throughout London and Brighton we review here our very first roof terrace project from some 12 years ago. It remains very relevant as it shows what can be achieved on the context of a standard terraced house. Here the project relates[…]
Wimbledon Townhouse Extension and Refurbishment Shape architecture has obtained planning permission for the extension and reworking of a townhouse in Newstead Road in Wimbledon. The property is a 3-storey townhouse. The project involves the conversion of the garage into habitable space and the addition of a rear extension with green sedum roof. The house[...]
London Basement Extensions Shape Architecture has been designing basement extensions in London since 2008 and we have built up a considerable expertise in this type of project. We have caried out over 30 such projects and these range from basements below houses, flats, gardens and mews properties and to listed building such as at[…]
Sandgate Road, Brighton Small Residential Extensions Shape Architecture continues to undertake a range of smaller residential extensions and we always have several of these projects in the office. Here we illustrate how we design and communicate with our clients using 3D models. This ensures a clear communication and an efficient collaboration and leads to[…]
Small House, Hove Shape Architecture has been asked by our client to look at the design for a small one bed house at a back lands site in Hove, currently occupied by a series of garages. Our proposal is for a simple elegant single storey building. The roof will be a green sedum roof,[…]
Community Project in Colchester As our community project in Colchester progresses through the demolition and structural phase, it does so with a watching brief from the Archaeologists in Colchester. At this week’s site visit a piece of Roman pottery was found. Photograph below.
Planning permission for Garden Studio in Hove Shape Architecture has been granted planning permission for this garden studio at the top of a steep garden in Hove. Our client is a carpenter and wanted something a bit different to the normal garden room and added to this was his interest in the work of[…]
Grade 2 Listed Apartment in the Drive, Hove This project is similar to other recent consents in Brunswick Terrace, Hove, where we have reworked Listed apartments to create large contemporary kitchen living and dining spaces. Here we were also able to re-order the rooms to create a further bedroom and address several retrospective consents[…]
Roof Terraces Animation Having gained planning permission for roof terraces at Norfolk Road and Cavendish House in Brighton and both within a short distance of each other, we have made an animation linking the two roof terraces.
London Roof Terraces Yesterday we published a blog on several of our roof terraces in Brighton. Today we have done the same with several roof terrace projects in London. We have selected a range from the prominent Grade 2 listed Florin Court to a Mews House and finally to a terraced house in Fulham[…]
Brighton Roof Terraces Shape Architecture continues to gain planning permissions for roof terraces in Brighton. Below are two roof terrace projects close by to each other. One in Norfolk Road and the other at Cavendish House opposite the I 360. Both are large roof terraces and posed considerable planning challenges in addressing the requirements[…]
Brighton Infill and Roof Extensions This project in Hove is at concept design stage and incorporates amongst other things a side infill extension, loft extension and hip to gable conversion. As with all our projects we provide a brochure of 5 or 6 design options all of which are explored in 2D and 3D. […]
Brighton Infill Extensions Shape Architecture continues to undertake many infill extension projects throughout London and Brighton. Below we have included images of three current infill projects in Brighton. These 3D images give an idea of how the design and the communication with our Clients is carried out. The use of 3D models ensures that[…]
Norfolk Road Roof Terrace Our Client at Norfolk Road writes: Simply blown away by our planning permission being granted for a roof terrace. Especially since we were told by residents on our street that it was impossible to achieve this. Thank you to the stellar team for such a smooth and efficient process.[…]
A Transformed Bungalow Shape Architecture has obtained planning permission for the complete transformation of a bungalow in Rustington near Worthing, into a large light filled contemporary home with an extensive south facing terrace with views of the sea. Our client first asked if she would be able to see the sea[…]
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