This project is for a new private house that sits on a triangular site between terrace of gable fronted Victorian houses and a railway embankment in Redland, Bristol. The house uses the unusual site geometry to create a dynamic series of spaces over three storeys. The house’s roof form echoes that of the adjacent terrace.…

We were the winner of an RIBA competition to re-think retirement housing for a new generation. Based on a site in Bishops Waltham, our project offers the baby boomer generation a new model for home ownership in later life. At its heart, our proposal is about providing a setting for a mutually supportive community, where…

The project is a new house on a site in the Kingsdown Conservation Area in Bristol. The site sits in a walled garden adjacent to a Victorian cottage and has views out across Central Bristol. The design has set out to provide a modern family house that is exemplary as a low energy dwelling whilst…

This project was the winner of the RIBA South West Sustainability Award 2018. It is a new build council housing development on a former garage site on the Northern fringe of Bristol. It was part of a larger project undertaken for Bristol City Council for new council homes on infill sites on existing HRA land.…

This new house sits in a Conservation area in a Victorian Suburb of Bristol. Our clients were looking to build an exemplary low energy house in the garden of their original house. The new house aims to minimise embodied energy using an innovative I-stud timber frame with Warmcel recycled newspaper insulation to provide a super-insulated…

This project will provide 16 new low energy homes on the site of a 1950s church in Henbury, Bristol. We have worked with our client, Bristol City Council’s Housing Delivery Team, to ensure that the new development sits comfortably in its leafy context whilst making best use of the available site and meeting the council’s…

The site for this project is on the outskirts of Elberton, a small South Gloucestershire village located within Bristol’s Green Belt.  Our clients acquired the brown-field site after a previous planning application had been refused. We were approached as local Bristol architects with specialist expertise in working in sensitive, rural locations. Our proposal took its…

This project set out to reconfigure and extend the lower ground floor of this substantial Islington town house, creating a more united house and garden with internal and external spaces tailored to modern family life. A dark and narrow stair at the front has been relocated to the rear bringing sunlight and views of the…

This development for Abri Housing Association will provide 74 new homes across a range of tenures including social rent, shared ownership and open market homes. The redevelopment of this site in North Bristol is part of a wider regeneration strategy that has been implemented in the area over the last decade. Bristol Architects Emmett Russell…

This is a seven storey Grade 2* former hospital building close to the centre of Bath that was refurbished and adapted to provide eleven apartments. Bristol Architects Emmett Russell Architects were involved in the project from the outset providing architectural services through to project completion and liaised closely with the conservation officer in agreeing a…