The RIBA House of the Year winner 2019: House Lessans
by RISE Design Studio on Mar 29, 2020
A bow to simplicity and values rooted in maternal landscapes, House Lessans is the winner of the RIBA House of the Year 2019 award.
Sketchbook Chronicles N.003
by RISE Design Studio on Mar 26, 2020
– Architecture with a social spin: an initiative for a school in Guatemala from Architecture Sans Frontieres. – The ancient craft of hand-blown cylinder glass. – Natural materials for the future: environmentally friendly engineered wood and hempcrete introducing hemp to traditional co …
Sketchbook Chronicles N.002
by RISE Design Studio on Feb 28, 2020
– Handmade origami paper-lamps made by the RISE creative team. – Carbon-zero London architecture at Ted Cullinan’s house in Camden Mews. – Translucent walls made of polycarbonate materials.
Sketchbook Chronicles N.001
by RISE Design Studio on Feb 10, 2020
– A walk around Walmer Yard to boost our passion for architectural details. – The Living Architecture initiative: Peter Zumthor’s villa introduced us to this idea by Alain de Botton from the School of Life. – RISE Rusted Lamp: a wink to our Brexit Bunker.
Passivhaus residential architecture: learning from Goldsmith Street
by RISE Design Studio on Feb 5, 2020
The Goldsmith Street council housing scheme in Norwich is a gem of contemporary architecture, a precedent for the direction architecture should take as it wades through the challenges presented by today’s world. More than just a pleasant place to live, the scheme stands up to housing …
Looking back at 2019
by RISE Design Studio on Jan 9, 2020
Happy New Year to all our clients and followers. We finished some really exciting projects in 2019, two of which were shared widely online due to coverage from some of the architecture and design world’s top websites. Douglas House, an extension of a terraced house in Kensal Rise in L …
Architects Declare: the climate emergency and why it is more important than ever to think about sustainable architecture
by RISE Design Studio on Dec 4, 2019
Why the climate emergency is a crisis, and not just a concern:
Five residential architecture tricks to introduce light in your home
by RISE Design Studio on Nov 20, 2019
We have heard it time and again: a house with good light is a good house. But what is just as true is that not all properties come with the amounts of natural light we would like to have. That is why architects, engineers and designers have come up with clever ways of allowing those p …
Embracing imperfection: wabi-sabi and Japanese aesthetics
by RISE Design Studio on Sep 11, 2019
Here at RISE Design Studio, you could say that wabi-sabi is “part of our DNA”. A world view that stems from Japanese aesthetics, wabi-sabi is the acceptance of transience and imperfection. It can include asymmetry and simplicity, as well as an appreciation of the integrity of natural …
