We create timeless, elegant, and sustainable homes using high-quality natural materials. Finely constructed by great craftsmen, tailored in collaboration with our clients to suit their lifestyles and vision.
Here is a selection of our current and completed homes which we have managed, designed and helped build for our clients. Ranging from internal works, house extensions and new build homes.
Counterbalance builds on over a decade of experience designing well-conceived and thoughtfully-detailed residential architecture.
At Counterbalance, our cause is to advocate for better housing in the UK by making our homes bigger, better and cheaper. We achieve this through our projects but also through sharing research and resources with those looking to build their own homes.
We advocate for better housing in the UK through our research series called Bigger, Better & Cheaper.
Here is a collection of case study houses we have designed to help inspire our clients on their requirements and aspirations for their homes.
Here we are exploring the dfiferent room types within residential homes and the typical space requirements.
The following information has been produced to help understand the relevant policy requirements of floor to ceiling heights in residential dwellings within England
Here we have a collection of different external/internal wall, floor and roof build-ups including brick, timber cladding and render with PIR or mineral wool insulation.
Taken together, these precedents form a personal atlas of housing: lessons drawn not only from plans and sections, but from the felt experience of being there.
This series is not about being an activist or proving a point, but about expressing an idea and analyzing the consequences of it in 500 words.
In this series we embark on an extraordinary journey to walk the entire stretch of the GLA section of the River Thames.