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.
A collection of case study houses we designed to inspire our clients and help explore design options.
Here we are exploring the different room types within residential homes and the typical space requirements.
Relevant policy requirements of floor to ceiling heights in residential dwellings in England.
A series of different external/internal wall, floor and roof build-ups including brick, timber cladding and render.
A personal atlas of housing: lessons drawn not only from plans and sections, but from the felt experience.
This series is not about being an activist or proving a point, but about expressing an idea and analysing 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.