Architects in Richmond
Your Local Experts in Sustainable Home Design
Transforming Your Vision Into Reality
Transforming your home is a thrilling journey, full of new possibilities.
Whether you're planning an extension, renovation, or conversion, your Richmond home deserves an architect who understands the character, regulations, and unique needs of the area. At Unagru, we specialize in creating beautifully designed, sustainable spaces that align with Richmond's heritage and your vision.
Why Choose Us for Your Richmond Project?
Award-Winning Local Expertise.
We qualified as a Finalist for a Build It Award 2024 for our radical transformation of an Edwardian detached house, which we fondly named Loop House. We have also won two awards for our design of a terraced house in a London conservation area. Whether it's a Victorian terrace or a Georgian townhouse, we know how to maximize your space while blending contemporary living with the area's architectural charm.
Deep Understanding of Richmond's Regulations.
With extensive experience navigating Richmond’s strict planning permissions, our expertise ensures your project is fully compliant, while achieving beautiful results. We are currently working on a complete renovation of a house in St Margarets and have a deep, practical understanding of regulations in conservation areas, we ensure your project stays clear and on track, avoiding unnecessary delays or setbacks
Tailored Solutions for Urban Living.
From loft conversions to garden extensions, we specialise in creative solutions for homes that work for modern lifestyles while enhancing your property value, such as basement conversions and multi-functional designs which make the most of every inch of space. We also offer full interior design and project management services if required, to keep the process as smooth and as organised as possible.
Passion for Sustainability.
The London Borough of Richmond is committed to deliver net zero functions by 2043, an approach we are already bringing to each and every Richmond project to help you lower energy bills and reduce environmental impact by integrating eco-friendly features like solar panels, green roofs, and high-performance insulation into every design. Read more about our Sustainability strategy here.
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Richmond Case Study: Loop House
Loop House combines several interventions on an Edwardian detached house for our clients, a family of five with parents in the creative sector and three lively boys, who required a space that reflected their joyful, expansive personalities.
The ground floor's design and transformation draws inspiration from the Krefeld houses by Mies van der Rohe, where large, staggered openings strike a balance between a traditional sense of space and the openness and asymmetry of modern sensitivity. We combined this typology with the opportunity to create a continuous loop of living areas marked by coloured thresholds and sliding doors. A previously fragmented and dark series of small rooms is now a playful, bright, and spacious sequence of spaces, perfect for a game of tag or hide-and-seek, and encouraging new ways for the family to interact.
The rear extension was partially rebuilt, insulated, and finished with white tiles, creating wide openings supported by slender columns. We re-covered the roof with slate tiles, more akin to the original structure, and extended to accommodate two new bedrooms on the upper floor. The extensions are deliberately minimalist, offering a stark contrast to the original building's detailed and colourful façade.
We took the same careful approach to retrofit, aimed at maximising improvements in the building’s efficiency while minimising the intervention’s carbon footprint. We aimed to lower the building’s lifetime emissions, with the green roof and rain garden greatly adding to the biodiversity of the site. The areas most affected by the work – the rear extension, ground floor’s floor structure and roof, were all insulated and made airtight. All the windows were replaced with double-glazed units. The demolished material was offered to local reclamation yards for re-use and eventually recycled. The upgrade of the fabric allowed us to replace the gas combination boiler with an air-source heat pump. Replacing the gas hob with induction has meant removing the gas supply altogether.
What Our Richmond Clients Say
"Unagru understood what was important to us from our first meeting and they designed a house that we all love. The house was looking tired, it was closed off and dark. Now it is open and filled with light. The open plan space is divided with the clever use of striking portals. This allows the house to have a lovely flow whilst also retaining defined areas. Loop House is playful and joyful and we feel very lucky to call this our home.”
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