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When laying out the plan of a building, the first

When laying out the plan of a building, the first principle is ‘Flow’. Without flow, everything else will fall down. We think this is the most critical component to any successful building.

Once we have understood the brief; the various spaces required, the people who inhabit the building and how they relate to each other… we can then begin to lay out the spaces. Most often we have to work with an existing building, meaning optimising the flow can be hard.

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Architects love limitations, we feel that if you c

Architects love limitations, we feel that if you consider each of these when laying out a house, you’ll end up somewhere close!!

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Our basic principles of design… It’s importa

Our basic principles of design…

It’s important to understand your building, both in practical terms, and what is appropriate.

We appreciate building design and construction is more complicated than this and the wider process is often where experience and knowledge comes in. However, when it comes to the process of designing a house layout (or many other building types), we think there are seven basic principles. We use those basic principles to create what we call ‘Happy House’.

Over the coming weeks, we’re going to outline what these are, with images of how we’ve used each one…

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We thought we’d do something a bit different thi

We thought we’d do something a bit different this week. We are aware that we can’t take on every project, and that sometimes the problems aren’t complex enough to justify an Architect.

With all of our projects we try to educate and empower our clients to make decisions of their own. So we thought we would share our basic principles of design…

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A closer look at our multi functional studio space

A closer look at our multi functional studio space in the Cotswolds! Watch until the end to see the new roof addition…

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The last highlight this week is Interiors, where w

The last highlight this week is Interiors, where we will keep all of our up to date interior project photographs!

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Also being added to our highlights this week is th

Also being added to our highlights this week is the new ‘us’ icon, where you will be able to get a closer look at us and our works in the studio!

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We’re adding a few new highlights to our Instagr

We’re adding a few new highlights to our Instagram this week, first up is Exteriors where you will be able to find all of our exterior shots!

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We wanted to take the opportunity to publicly welc

We wanted to take the opportunity to publicly welcome Jesica to Rixon Architects. An Argentinian Architect by training, Jesica has quickly settled in and we’re really happy that she’s part of the team!

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Jonathan can’t help himself sketching over and o

Jonathan can’t help himself sketching over and over drawings… Sometimes we have to hide the pens to stop him!

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A snapshot of the studio in working mode! We hav

A snapshot of the studio in working mode!

We have flexible working, so we structure our weeks so that we do our more collaborative work in the studio for half of the week, and our more focused work at home the other half… This means we really value being in the office, as it’s the perfect chance to share and learn from each other.

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A great site visit this week to a new build, semi

A great site visit this week to a new build, semi subterranean house on the top of a hill looking across the Cotswold Hills.

This is a super low energy build, with lots of great tech and modern construction methods, and it’s great to see it going up… not a bad view from the bedrooms too!

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We’re really pleased to have an 8 page spread in

We’re really pleased to have an 8 page spread in the latest Build It magazine! It reads really well, with lots of great advice for people tempted to do their own new build.

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We thought we would use ourselves as Guinea pigs a

We thought we would use ourselves as Guinea pigs and have just had a 3kw solar array installed on the south facing roof of our studio, which we’re going to analyse the usage of both for the office and the electric cars - we’ll be sure to share the knowledge once we know more!

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THANK YOU Finally, thank you to the team here at

THANK YOU

Finally, thank you to the team here at Rixon Architects. We try to provide a happy, enthusiastic and engaged team of architectural staff and designers, and it’s important they are recognised publicly. You’re all really important, and we’re very grateful for your efforts - hopefully we’re enjoying the journey together..

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THANK YOU Secondly, thank you to the wider ‘bla

THANK YOU

Secondly, thank you to the wider ‘black book’ of contacts - structural engineers, renewables consultants, contractors, garden designers, interior designers, cost consultants, suppliers, manufacturers, collaborators and many more.

You know who you are, and we’re very fortunate to have your support around us. Without you you all, we wouldn’t be able to provide the service we do.

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THANK YOU This week we’d like to stop and say t

THANK YOU

This week we’d like to stop and say thank you!

Firstly to our fabulous clients, who place their trust in us to help them realise their dream properties…

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With each of our posts we try to impart a little m

With each of our posts we try to impart a little more of our knowledge or experience… share a thought, a detail or a feeling of what we’re up to! Be that a recently finished project we’re really proud of, or a work in progress that we’re enjoying working on.

Sometimes when we’re talking to clients, we realise that we can get stuck inside what we’re doing, and there may be knowledge we can share, or advice we can give… so is there anything you guys would like to see more of??

If you’re not comfortable dropping a comment below, feel free to drop us a message, and we’ll try to do something about it!

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We are really pleased to have won an International

We are really pleased to have won an International Property Award for our recent Low Carbon house in Painswick!

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What are we doing here?? We’re here to make th

What are we doing here??

We’re here to make the world a better place and to share what we’re doing with whoever wants to see it.

We had thousands of photos of completed projects which were just sat idly, and we thought 'wouldn’t it be nice to show these to the world?’

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