The clients wanted to open up their kitchen and make a better connection to the garden. The pink interior of the kitchen adds warmth and character. The interior is lined with cornish pink clay plaster and the exterior is clad in dark timber slats.
This 1930's house in West Sussex under went a complete refurbishment. The client wanted an open plan living room making the most of the beautiful views towards the South Downs National Park. The proposed extension aims to maximise the views with glazing on three sides of the room. A zinc clad canopy over sails the glazing to shade the south facing living room. A large terrace steps down to a beautifully landscaped garden.
Church House is a Grade II former school connected to St Andrews Church in Timsbury. The brief was to re-configure the internal house and add a flexible garden room to the grounds of Church House. The garden room sits just below the new brick garden wall so it is concealed from outside of the grounds.
The project was inspired by the walled gardens of the near by Mottisfont Abbey.
The clients wanted to open up their existing kitchen on to the garden and extend the kitchen to create space for a dining area. This was a joint project between Studio Battersby Edgley and Pamphilon Architects who were responsible for the tender and constrcution stages.
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Meadow View
Is a new build low energy house which will adopt passiv house standards. The building sits in a highly sensitive rural location on the outskirts of King’s Somborne. The material palette is simple, michelmersh brick and clay shingles. The house faces towards open meadows with the main living spaces and bedrooms making the most of the beautiful views.
Our Clients wanted a simple two bedroom house with a garge and storage. The house sits on the edge of a rural village and so need to be sensitive to it’s context. The building is kept as low as possible with all windows facing out towards a beautiful view. Black timber was chosen to blend in with the wooded landscape beyond.
The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts is an iconic building by Foster and Partners built in the 1970's. As well as being an art gallery it functions as a university research facility. The existing slide library was out-dated and replaced with a new research library. We worked closely on the brief with professors and students at the University of East Anglia. We completed this project whilst working with for Foster and Partners in London.
Polgarrie is a cottage located on the Dornoch Firth in Scotland. The clients asked for a new entrance to their property that embraced the surround landscape. The house is now entered through a light filled space capturing views to the surrounding hills. The design reflects the simple form of the cottage. It is clad in local larch, which has weathered over time to blend with its surroundings.
Oakhurst Grove sits in ‘The Gardens’ Conservation Area in East Dulwich. The property was a single bedroom, ground floor flat with a long garden. The clients were keen to avoid moving from the property but needed more space, including an extra bedroom, a home office and a spacious kitchen that overlooked their garden.
We are working on an extension to a Grade II Listed 19th Century Fishing Lodge in Hampshire. The Fishing Lodge forms part of the John Lewis estate situated in the beautiful village of Longstock.
We design bespoke one off pieces of furniture to suit our clients needs and to compliment our interior architecture.
The overriding principle is to create designs that could be put to more than one use or used in more than one way. Examples of this are a stool that doubled as a side table and a telescopic cabinet which could be shortened or lengthened to suit different sized spaces.
In 2018 Laura became a registered RIBA School’s ambassador. Architecture Ambassadors are RIBA architect members who volunteer to partner with schools on an architectural project of their choosing. To help give children an insight into architecture and to inspire them about the potential of the built environment.
Studio Battersby received arts council funding to run a kids workshop as part of the Archi Kids festival in London. The workshop was called Bird City. The kids had to design their very own birdhouses which would be displayed on trees. The kids had to think about scale, colour, structure and of course the client ! The birds…!
