Scottwhitbystudio

ScottWhitbyStudio is a London-based architecture and urban design practice founded on listening, learning and immersion. We work closely with an eclectic array of clients and collaborators in a rigorous, dextrous process where inquisitive observation, research and discussion are the catalyst for design. Everywhere that we can, we aspire to retain, re-use and recycle. Where new interventions are required, we combine our light-touch with a low-embodied energy material palette in search of a more responsible architecture. Our precise unpicking of layers of history, combined with a desire to create ambitious architecture that endures for generations has led us to working on numerous Listed Buildings, Heritage projects, and schemes within complicated, historic planning contexts. ‘Deep Immersion’ is an integral part of our process that allows us to investigate the past, innovate in the present, and build for a flexible, low-carbon future. We have volunteered in soup kitchens to better understand the complex logistics of a homeless charity whose premises we helped reinvigorate; we have cooked dinners with our clients, within their existing ad-hoc set-up, helping us create a space more suited to their social patterns; we temporarily moved our office into a commercial building whilst undertaking the feasibility study for its restoration and re-use; we have also asked families to create individual video diaries so that we can appreciate the unique and shared rituals of family members, accommodating everyone within the proposals.