Read the room
Before any design, we measure what the room is doing: light, air, sound and comfort. You receive a ranked set of moves.
How a restructure is run
Design the climate
Light is re-planned first, then air and planting designed as one system, sized to the room rather than scattered as decoration.
Source with conviction
Every material chosen for how it ages and where it comes from: solid timber, lime and clay, natural fibres, low-emission finishes.
Build, then stay
We run it to completion with your contractor, re-measure at handover, then stay for six months of aftercare.
Planting treated as air infrastructure, set against timber and earth-toned plaster.Material, chosen for the decade ahead
We choose materials for how they age. Solid oak and ash develop a patina; veneers and laminates chip and date. Lime and clay plasters move air and buffer humidity where painted plasterboard simply seals it in. Wool, linen and natural-fibre felt soften sound honestly, and they do it without the synthetic off-gassing that quietly fouls indoor air.
We align the work with recognised standards: WELL for the human side of light, air, acoustics and thermal comfort, and LEED or BREEAM for the building's environmental performance.
We believe each material has a job in the climate of the room, a known origin, and a known way of growing old well.
what you get
What the engagement includes
A measured reading
A full survey of the floor: daylight, glare, reverberation time, background noise floor, air quality and temperature, logged over a working week and written up plain.
A re-planned light scheme
Daylight brought toward the centre of the plate, glare controlled, and electric light specified to a warm, low-glare spectrum that the eye can sit under all day.
Air and planting as one system
Planting sized and placed as air infrastructure, paired with ventilation strategy, with species chosen for the room's light, humidity and the people who will actually tend it.
Acoustics tuned by measurement
Quiet built from natural-fibre absorption and sensible layout, designed to a reverberation target and verified on site, so meetings stop bleeding into the open plan.
A defensible material palette
Solid timber, lime and clay plaster, wool, linen and felt, with traceable sourcing and low-emission finishes. Samples assembled and signed off before anything is ordered.
Six months of aftercare
Post-handover work, a written care calendar, scheduled visits, and living things kept alive by people who specified them. Included with every restructure.
Frequently asked questions
Does a restructure require the team to relocate?
No, in almost every case. Work is sequenced around occupancy (by zone, by floor, by hours), so we move through the building while it remains in use. A short, fully vacated phase may be required for the final installation of planting and acoustics; this is agreed at the outset.
How is the planting maintained once installed?
Every restructure ships with a written planting register, which includes details of species, position, irrigation regime, replacement intervals, and a horticulturist visits on a fixed schedule for the first six months. After that, the register is yours to keep, or we continue the care under a separate agreement.
Can you align the project with WELL, LEED or BREEAM?
Yes, where it is honest to do so. We design to the substance behind those standards as a matter of course: daylight, clean air, measured quiet, thermal comfort and low-emission materials. We can run a formal certification when it earns its cost, and we will say plainly when it does not.
What happens to what's already in the building?
Existing materials are assessed at the first reading and sorted into three categories — kept, repurposed within the room, or removed. Furniture in good condition is reupholstered or reworked where possible; what cannot be kept is returned to the supply chain through partners we work with.
Start with this room.
Tell us where the office is, who works in it, and what it feels like on a difficult afternoon. We will read it back to you.
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