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Clapton Community FC Spectator Pavilion

Area: 50m²
Type: Civic New Build
Status: Complete
Year: 2024-25

















The pavilion contains amenities and provides shelter for spectators on match days at the Old Spotted Dog, one of the longest serving football grounds in London and today home to Clapton Community FC.

It comprises a large cantilever roof that spans across an inner cubic volume, supported by three columns either side, with privacy screens suspended between - all standard grade timber bolted together and painted black. The inner volume is then made of rendered block work and without a soffit, which results in a void between the amenities inside and the black timber roof hovering above, allowing natural light in and natural ventilation out.

Simple and low-cost gestures such as the use of black and ensuring solid proportions throughout generated a modest yet quietly expressive piece of civic architecture on a very tight budget.


Built by Telemac construction. Film photography by Rikard Kahn.

Camden Maisonette

Area: 120m²
Type: Full Interior Renovation
Status: Complete
Year: 2023-24












Camden Maisonette is part of a terrace located at the end of a mews in North London. Originally built just over 100 years ago, the building type is fairly conventional and as such the previous occupants used the space in a fairly typical manner - all the living spaces accessed from a more private circulation core. Since the client was not intending the occupy the house in the manner of a 'normal' nuclear family, as it was originally designed, we were able to approach the renovation with a more experimental attitude.

To enable the living areas to feel more open, without defaulting to the conventional 'open plan', the doorway to the lounge was significantly enlarged, allowing westerly light to flood the space. A diagonal from the extreme corners of the house was subsequently created, making the interior feel much more generous in size, and connecting the living areas to the south-facing terrace, without the whole area visible at once. Previously the main bathroom was located in the middle of the plan, but the client wanted natural light and ventilation. The bathroom was therefore moved to the front of the house, accessed via a walk in wardrobe that creates an en filade from the main bedroom, or a smaller door from the spare room. 

Several existing bedrooms were sacrificied in the renovation; one bedroom to the rear of the maisonette became a small music studio, to house the client's extensive record collection and equipment required for recording late-night radio shows. The other bedroom at the very top of the house became a sauna, overlooking the greenery of the gardens behind.

Live / Work Apartment in Paris

Area: 85m²
Type: Full Interior Renovation
Status: Complete
Year: 2023-24













Live/Work Apartment is lcoated on on a prominent boulevard in the North-East of Paris and situated directly opposite a large ‘English Landscape’ park - an usual setting for this European city. Originally built in the 1960's, the public foyer boasts a generous palette of newly restored materials - marble, wood veneer, chrome - yet the apartment itself had not been renovated since it was first occupied. The brief was to transform the interior into a residence that could also serve as a photography studio for the client.

The main interior wall was demolished to remove the existing corridor and repurpose this area for living space. The kitchen was moved into the central main room to create a more flexible living space. The existing kitchen room, access via a long corridor sealed by a structural wall felt markedly seperate from the rest of the apartment. As such it was converted into a small guest suite with its own entrance, so friends and family can enjoy a sense of privacy during their stay. The photography studio overlooks the park and can either spill into the main room if more space is required, or shut away behind a sliding door to conceal the inevitable mess of creative life. A new concrete screed unifies all the rooms save for the bedroom, which has softer qualities to invoke a sense of serenity.

The domestic and productive spheres of life collapse into one within the walls of this new Parisian interior, whilst providing privacy and the opportunity to be together in a single, modest sized apartment in a large European metropolis.

Longhouse in Kent

Area: 150m²
Type: Residential New Build
Status: Concept / Feasibility
Year: 2022























The longhouse is located on a long plot on the periphery of an ancient hamlet, extending from a road on its western end to a swathe of ploughed fields to the east. Due to it's rural environment, it was decided that a low and elongated form would suit this type of house, something akin to a barn or stables.

Upon closer research, tithe barns became a salient reference to generate the early expression of this house - two main doorways punctuating an otherwise blank elevation creates a very striking character, especially within a natural backdrop of trees and fields.

Multigenerational House in Kent

Area: 140m²
Type: Residential New Build
Status: Concept / Feasibility
Year: 2022




















This house is located on a long plot on the periphery of an ancient hamlet, set back behind the behind a row of buildings that line the road and adjoining a large area of vineyards that slope down into the valley. Long buildings such as these do not look out of place in the countryside, and it was decided that a long loggia running the length of the main facade would act as a suitable threshold between the public and more private interior.

The rhythm of the loggia was clear and simple, yet within each bay exists a different arrangement of elements, to contrast with the repetition of columns - maybe it could be called a polyrhythmic facade.

It is intended that the house accommodate several generations of a family, with two main living quarters arranged around a central courtyard.

Maximillian Worrell Architecture - London, UK (2026)