BORDSUSTAINABLE, LOW IMPACT, ARCHITECTURE, CONSTRUCTION, RETROFIT,
SUSTAINABLE, LOW IMPACT, ARCHITECTURE, CONSTRUCTION, RETROFIT,
SUSTAINABLE, LOW IMPACT, ARCHITECTURE, CONSTRUCTION, RETROFIT,
SUSTAINABLE, LOW IMPACT, ARCHITECTURE, CONSTRUCTION, RETROFIT,
SUSTAINABLE, LOW IMPACT, ARCHITECTURE, CONSTRUCTION, RETROFIT,
SUSTAINABLE, LOW IMPACT, ARCHITECTURE, CONSTRUCTION, RETROFIT,
SUSTAINABLE, LOW IMPACT, ARCHITECTURE, CONSTRUCTION, RETROFIT,
SUSTAINABLE, LOW IMPACT, ARCHITECTURE, CONSTRUCTION, RETROFIT,
DESIGN
First and foremost, we are Architects. Our projects range from small residential extensions, retrofits and refurbishments and new build homes and larger , residential, commercial, and community projects. We offer full design services, across all RIBA work stages, including feasibility, planning, technical design, building control applications, on site delivery, coordination and project management. Irrespective of scale, our work always maintains a strong focus on local, sustainable, robust and bio-based solutions. Although the focus of our work is in the North of the country, we will venture further afield for the right opportunity.
Our approach is underpinned by four key principles:
1: Celebrating and cherishing the local
2: Community-focused, humane design
3: Robustness and longevity. We reject the 60 year life space of buildings commonly targeted.
4: A Bio-based ‘less is more’, honest approach to materials
Our process is as much an important part of our work as the architecture itself. It is one, focusing on the craft and handmade, on the working drawing, physical models and 1:1 material mock-ups. Architecture is at its core a physical pursuit, culminating in the tangible and experiential. We believe the processes leading to that should result in things you can hold in your hand, get inside and experience. In the world of ‘move fast and break things’, we definitely sit more in the camp of ‘think slow and make things’. We want to re-connect with the humane craft of thinking with your hands, and giving that process, your porject, the time and respect it deserves.
We are ARB accredited Architects and qualified Retrofit Coordinators and Designers, as well as tutors at the Sheffield School of Architecture. We specialise in, natural, bio-based and local material construction and high quality, resilient design.
BUILD
One of the first questions we are often asked is how long the construction process will take, how much it will cost and where do we find a good builder? At Bord, we offer full design and build services. We work with a trusted team of crafts people, makers and builders to deliver projects from concept design through to handover. This approach allows us to keep a handle on programme and cost, and, as importantly, the over all quality of architecture.
We specialise in crafting high-quality, sustainable and bio-based homes and extensions. Our site teams are lead by an experienced Architects, with an in-depth knowledge of the proposed design and the construction process. This integrated approach to design and construction ensure efficiant, holistic, informed decision making. We maintain a greater control over cost and the end quality of your project and our close relationship to the construction team ensures collaborative and positive reletionships.
Through this approach we are also able to ensure our designs retain the low carbon, low embodied energy, bio-based and fossil-free material specifications we strive towards. This can often be lost in the transition from design to construction. Contractors with little experience of these materials and processes will often revert to their own approach. prices come back higher and programmes longer.
We promote transparency, respect, exacting workmanship and provide a clear and traceable trail of responsibility. For this reason, we will not take on any construction work that was not designed by us.
BORD TEAM
Our collective was conceived as a way to bring individuals together ‘around a table’, where skills and ideas could be shared. BORD (the nordic word for table) is a collaboration between a group of like-minded architects, colleagues and friends, Joseph Marshall, Michael Jenkins and Elin Keyser. Between us we have worked at multiple Stirling Prize winning practices. We have worked internationally and across a variety of project types and scales, from large, complex residential and commercial developments to grassroots community projects and small scale works of making and testing.
We have come together as BORD as a means of pooling this wealth of experience and knowledge. Our model of practice promotes collaboration with architects, artists and designers to utilise the experience and knowledge available through our network needed to approach certain projects and clients. This way of working allows us to work on a variety of project scales and types, from smaller art commissions to larger multimillion pound commercial projects, one of new build houses, residential refurbishments, extensions and retrofits.
We are based between Sheffield and Huddersfield, and consider the connection and promotion of Northern practitioners and design as part of our mission.
COLLABORATORS
Our practice is a celebration of different experiences and skill sets towards a common ambition to contribute to a resilient, locally engrained, sustainable design. As we work, we are building a larger network of makers, artists, architects and designers. Some of whom can be seen below. We consider these people a part of our collective, sharing our resources - skills, knowledge, time, equipment, experience - in a mutually beneficial way. We intend to use our platform to promote our peers.
Bradley Sumner - Architect
Jonni Woo - Photographer
https://jonniwoo.com/projects
