The brief was established as a regeneration to form 10 houses on the site with visions to develop long term social economic and environmental benefits to the community. Redmak saw this as an urban design opportunity to upgrade the site into a long term sustainable perimeter block with the following approaches: A cluster of houses […]
New Passive House Design
Redmak Architecture and Urban Design LLP have been busy with designing their latest Passive House project. The aims of a Passive house is to provide occupants with a high level of comfort whilst using little energy for heating and cooling. To achieve the Passive house standard in the UK, this typically involves: High levels of […]
Bretforton Housing
A development for a Housing Association, the site at Bretforton straddles a conservation area boundary and socially disparate communities. Our proposal is to carry out the Urban design centric ideal that Christopher Alexander’s approach to development follows. For more information on the project, click here, or visit our Urban page.
Passive House Scheme
Our new passive house design for Graven Hill in Bicester, Oxfordshire. The scheme incorporates double height spaces, contemporary open plan living, sleeping platforms giving the feeling of loft living and a second floor balcony. The flat roof allows for the installation of due South facing photo voltaics regardless of the plot orientation.
Suffolk Housing Scheme
Suffolk housing scheme is a development of 300 environmentally friendly houses, using local public space tissue studies on which to base the layout to form: Village square Tapering streets Stable yard news Perimeter blocks Street trees “Walkable” urban block sizes. We have been blessed with the following testimonial from one of our treasured clients: “With […]
Bespoke Front Door
In addition to architectural design, we had the pleasure of designing a new bespoke front door for one of our private clients. The brief was to produce a historical Tudor style door with a central motif. The door is a composition of insulation sandwiched between two oak faced panels, held together by japanned screws, and […]
Mending Nottingham: Mansfield Road
Continuing our campaign for Mending Nottingham, Redmak has prepared a strategy for the refurbishment of a 1970’s furniture store on Mansfield Road which has been unused for a number of years. The proposal includes retail units on the ground floor and houses on the upper floors, with a new build block of 3 flats at […]
Mending Nottingham: Bath Street
Continuing our campaign for Mending Nottingham, we have explored two potential development plots the city, close to the up and coming Sneinton Market Regeneration Area, Victoria Park and its colourful Promenade. The tight sites border Huntingdon Street and Bath Street. Our aim is to develop the sites along a new pedestrian route which would connect […]
Mending Nottingham: Sneinton Market
Continuing our campaign for Mending Nottingham, Redmak have prepared a development strategy for the North end of the Sneinton Market in Nottingham City Centre. The proposal seeks to redevelop part of the Sneinton Market that has fallen into neglect, into a mix use development of highly energy efficient town houses, retail and commercial enterprises. With […]