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.
Established in 2021 by architect Gareth Price, in Greenwich London, 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 archieve this through our client's projects but also through publishing research for others that can benefit from our knowledge to help them build their own homes.
At Counterbalance, we research and advocate for better housing in the UK through our series called Bigger, Better & Cheaper.
Here is a collection of case study houses we have developered to help clients understand their requirements and aspirations for their homes.
Here we are exploring the dfiferent room types within residential homes and the typical requirements for space.
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.