ESHA architects

Urban Design Masterplanning Planning Consultancy Sustainable Design

The experience of the Partners includes

Housing Refurbishment

Merchants’ Almshouse, Bristol. The reinstatement of the wing of this high quality listed building lost to bombing during World War 2.
Cotshill Gardens, Chipping Norton. Conversion of a grade II listed workhouse into 22 houses for Regalian Properties.
Orlebar Gardens, Bristol. Remodelling of a fifties deck-access block for Bristol City Council to provide 56 flats. Won a Bristol Civic Society Award and a Civic Trust Commendation.
Inns Court, Bristol. Reorganisation of a 500 house Radburn style estate incorporating a new local centre.
Kingsley House, Bristol. Remodelling of a thirties deck-access block for Bristol City Council to provide 56 flats for single people. Won a Bristol Civic Society Award and a BALI landscape award.
Beachley Camp, Chepstow. Upgrading of existing married quarters to provide 84 houses for army families for the Defence Housing Executive.

Housing for the Elderly

Extra Care Home and HQ for Cornwall Care, Newquay. Extra Care Home and headquarters within the proposed Newquay Growth Area.
Easter Compton. The project brief for 'supportive housing for the elderly with a non-inststutional charater' was fulfilled with this traditional styled courtyard building, which blends with the village surroundings.
Eastleigh Road, Bristol. Ten elderly persons bungalows in Southmead including a disabled unit for the Guinness Trust.
Luccombe, Somerset. Three houses for the elderly in this National Trust village for the West Somerset Rural Housing Association. Won the National Award for ‘Buildings in the Countryside’ in 1992 and a Civic Trust Commendation.
Upper Bugle Street, Southampton. Conservation area development of 96 flats for the elderly and single people.
Services: Part One
Urban Design & Masterplanning
Planning Consultancy
Public Consultation
Design Competitions
Project Planning & Programming
Feasibility Studies
Detailed Briefing and Design
Achieving Planning Consent
Computer Visualisation
 
Services: Part Two
Design Monitoring
Design Intent Details and
Specification
Building Regulations
Production Information
Site Inspection
Post Completion Feedback
Single Houses and Small Scale
Conversions / Extensions
 
Projects
Masterplanning & Urban Design
Housing in Urban Areas
Housing in Villages
Housing refurbishment
Health
Education including laboratories
Conservation / Listed Buildings
Offices / Defence / Other
 
 
Sustainability
Introduction
Mixed use
Long life, loose-fit, low energy
Thermal insulation and mass
Water drainage and flooding
Natural lighting and ventilation
Embodied energy
Natural landscape
Renewable energy sources
Beauty