A Place Is Made of Geography and People

Our projects are uniquely inspired by the place, the people and the context in which we are building.

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Carefully matching new materials with old.

Places that are designed around their existing context and that respond to their environment.

Making the most of the best qualities of the existing site by orientating windows towards features in the landscape or beautiful views.

Seamlessly fitting additions in with their historic context where appropriate.

Appreciating the story of places such as the human wear on a 16th Century fireplace.

‘Place is composed both of physical geography and of the essence or idea.’

Looking at material palettes on site to see how they respond to surrounding colour and light.

What is this all about?

The projects we create are the outcome of a unique combination of people, places, ideas, materials and events. As a result of this, each of our projects can be read like a story.

We’ve chosen to use tokens to illustrate the makeup of our work. Each token represents a ‘moment’ in the life of ENSEMBLE and taken together, they combine to tell the story of an idea, a project or a person.

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Illustration of three ENSEMBLE projects.