Sam Tisdall Architects

Often in the natural world, and occasionally in the built environment, you come across places that have a certain harmony, and which have the capacity to inspire and lift your mood. The aim is to make such places, and to remember the potential that architecture has to improve people's daily lives.

Designing and building is not simple. It is subject to a whole range of forces and involves input from a wide variety of people with different skills and concerns. The architect's role is to navigate this journey and to empower clients through the process, with a pragmatic and flexible approach backed up by technical knowledge and an unwavering commitment to the quality of the finished building.

Each time we build we use materials and energy that contribute to emissions and deplete finite resources, and buildings leave a lasting legacy that is difficult to undo. The practice therefore aims to build as responsibly as possible, starting with a strategy of re-use rather than demolition wherever possible, and minimising carbon-intensive materials such as cement and steel. Timber in particular is relished as a versatile and environmentally friendly material, used both structurally and at the smaller scale of objects and furniture.