Daykin Marshall Studio

RURAL SUSTAINABILITY | Renewable technologies have been subtly integrated to vastly reduce carbon emissions and retrofit draughty old buildings for 21st century use. The estate’s natural resources were harnessed to reduce the embodied energy of buildings materials
HERITAGE + RETROFIT | the addition of a timber bay dining hall breathes new life into an early work by renowned George Gilbert Scott. Carbon emissions are reduced by two thirds using breathable insulation and plaster finishes, air-source heating and embodied energy conscious materials.
TIMELESS MATERIALS | The embedded and uncanny connection between new and old at La Tour Maison captures our approach to sensitively, yet confidently working with historic buildings.
VILLAGE CIVIC | As winners of the Village Cup at Lords, cricket in Sessay, North Yorkshire, is a focal point for the village. Proposals for a cricket pavilion and community hall offer a new, public place for all ages
LEAVES OF COPPER | Working closely with and learning from specialist metal roofing craftsmen Nick Fletcher allowed us to tailor bespoke copper shingles for the mansard roofs at The Fairway in Leicester
REIMAGINING THE MANSION BLOCK | Nine apartments in the Highgate Conservation Area revisits a relevant typology for suburban low-rise densification in a sensitive, yet gritty North London setting
SOLAR CONCRETE | The stepped in-situ cast walls at Concrete House surround the courtyard garden, buffering the internal spaces from overheating and radiating retained heat during evenings on the terrace
COLLECTIVE LIVING | With the pressure on available housing and land only increasing, Family Commune explores a model for co-living in Bethnal Green, East London

Daykin Marshall Studio are architects based in London and the East Midlands specialising in houses, housing and public placemaking

A huge thank you to everyone at the East Midlands RIBA for a great evening of discussion around our vital focus on the Climate Challenge and the levity (with a serious message) brought by Studio Bark's Nick Newman.

We were very pleased to come away with these two awards for Old Four Row. Thank you!

Here's the judge's citation:

“This Small Project of the Year demonstrates how a small, listed building can be sustainably retrofitted with high-quality modern interventions, without losing any of its original character – in fact the modern intervention enhances it.”

Our project at Ashridge Court in Devon is featured in today’s Sunday Times in an insightful article by Hugh Graham. Thank you Chris and Carolyn for sharing your story and for your commitment to realising the vision with us. As you brilliantly summarise “Ashridge is all about sustainability - both environmentally and economically. The former is in fashion, but without the latter it won’t endure.” Thanks again to all those who collaborated on the project with us. You can read more about Ashridge here

20.04.2023

We're working on concept proposals for a Paragraph 80 new-build house in Nottinghamshire and have today been discussing the pre-planning design with residents and parish council in the nearby village. Lot's of enthusiastic and interested conversations about the design, landscaping and importantly sustainability. We'll be sharing more on the project soon, but here's a photo of the landscape site model looking great in the afternoon sun.

29.03.2023

Down in Devon our excellent joinery collaborator Tim Gaudin is busy producing the kit of parts for our studio soon to be construction in Newark-on-Trent. Here's a test sample photo we've just been sent of the two main finishes: matt black wall 'logs' and our preferred natural tung oil finished (left) sample for the structural frame. Roll on May and the build!

We're pleased to announce that following two years working with us, Shidan Hagos is now a fully qualified Architect having passed his professional exams at the start of the year. Becoming an Architect...

We're always collecting samples in the studio and testing ideas through model making. The process of design is rarely linear, and we believe that the best thinking comes from taking a hands on approach.⁠

#peoplemakingbuildings #craft #models #handson #samples

We are architects, people who make buildings. Good places are a product of those that use, design and make them and so, though we are a small studio, we are part of a much larger family of collaborators.

Commissioned by the Architects Journal, Jay Merrick has written an erudite and thoughtful critique of our ten year year long project at Ashridge in North Devon, published in August's AJ Rural Issue. Thank you Jay for your writing, the insightful discussions during our visit together and wider conversations about our work over the years.

#peoplemakingbuildings #daykinmarshallstudio #privatehousing #rural #ruralregeneration #ruraleconomy #sustainableretrofit #lowcarbondesign

Corduroy House in Grand Design's September issue

Corduroy House has been photographed by the talented Nick Dearden and is published in September 2022's Grand Design's magazine.

25.03.2022

Working with a local family we're investigating potential sites and early concept ideas for a Paragraph 80 home in rural Nottinghamshire. This is a sketch for a walled garden courtyard house sited near to long-lost manor within naturalised meadows and grazed parkland.

Daykin Marshall Studio are architects based in London and the East Midlands specialising in houses, housing and public placemaking

RURAL SUSTAINABILITY | Renewable technologies have been subtly integrated to vastly reduce carbon emissions and retrofit draughty old buildings for 21st century use. The estate’s natural resources were harnessed to reduce the embodied energy of buildings materials

A huge thank you to everyone at the East Midlands RIBA for a great evening of discussion around our vital focus on the Climate Challenge and the levity (with a serious message) brought by Studio Bark's Nick Newman.

We were very pleased to come away with these two awards for Old Four Row. Thank you!

Here's the judge's citation:

“This Small Project of the Year demonstrates how a small, listed building can be sustainably retrofitted with high-quality modern interventions, without losing any of its original character – in fact the modern intervention enhances it.”

HERITAGE + RETROFIT | the addition of a timber bay dining hall breathes new life into an early work by renowned George Gilbert Scott. Carbon emissions are reduced by two thirds using breathable insulation and plaster finishes, air-source heating and embodied energy conscious materials.

Our project at Ashridge Court in Devon is featured in today’s Sunday Times in an insightful article by Hugh Graham. Thank you Chris and Carolyn for sharing your story and for your commitment to realising the vision with us. As you brilliantly summarise “Ashridge is all about sustainability - both environmentally and economically. The former is in fashion, but without the latter it won’t endure.” Thanks again to all those who collaborated on the project with us. You can read more about Ashridge here

TIMELESS MATERIALS | The embedded and uncanny connection between new and old at La Tour Maison captures our approach to sensitively, yet confidently working with historic buildings.
20.04.2023

We're working on concept proposals for a Paragraph 80 new-build house in Nottinghamshire and have today been discussing the pre-planning design with residents and parish council in the nearby village. Lot's of enthusiastic and interested conversations about the design, landscaping and importantly sustainability. We'll be sharing more on the project soon, but here's a photo of the landscape site model looking great in the afternoon sun.

VILLAGE CIVIC | As winners of the Village Cup at Lords, cricket in Sessay, North Yorkshire, is a focal point for the village. Proposals for a cricket pavilion and community hall offer a new, public place for all ages
29.03.2023

Down in Devon our excellent joinery collaborator Tim Gaudin is busy producing the kit of parts for our studio soon to be construction in Newark-on-Trent. Here's a test sample photo we've just been sent of the two main finishes: matt black wall 'logs' and our preferred natural tung oil finished (left) sample for the structural frame. Roll on May and the build!

LEAVES OF COPPER | Working closely with and learning from specialist metal roofing craftsmen Nick Fletcher allowed us to tailor bespoke copper shingles for the mansard roofs at The Fairway in Leicester
We're pleased to announce that following two years working with us, Shidan Hagos is now a fully qualified Architect having passed his professional exams at the start of the year. Becoming an Architect...
REIMAGINING THE MANSION BLOCK | Nine apartments in the Highgate Conservation Area revisits a relevant typology for suburban low-rise densification in a sensitive, yet gritty North London setting

We're always collecting samples in the studio and testing ideas through model making. The process of design is rarely linear, and we believe that the best thinking comes from taking a hands on approach.⁠

#peoplemakingbuildings #craft #models #handson #samples

SOLAR CONCRETE | The stepped in-situ cast walls at Concrete House surround the courtyard garden, buffering the internal spaces from overheating and radiating retained heat during evenings on the terrace

We are architects, people who make buildings. Good places are a product of those that use, design and make them and so, though we are a small studio, we are part of a much larger family of collaborators.

COLLECTIVE LIVING | With the pressure on available housing and land only increasing, Family Commune explores a model for co-living in Bethnal Green, East London

Commissioned by the Architects Journal, Jay Merrick has written an erudite and thoughtful critique of our ten year year long project at Ashridge in North Devon, published in August's AJ Rural Issue. Thank you Jay for your writing, the insightful discussions during our visit together and wider conversations about our work over the years.

#peoplemakingbuildings #daykinmarshallstudio #privatehousing #rural #ruralregeneration #ruraleconomy #sustainableretrofit #lowcarbondesign

Corduroy House in Grand Design's September issue

Corduroy House has been photographed by the talented Nick Dearden and is published in September 2022's Grand Design's magazine.

25.03.2022

Working with a local family we're investigating potential sites and early concept ideas for a Paragraph 80 home in rural Nottinghamshire. This is a sketch for a walled garden courtyard house sited near to long-lost manor within naturalised meadows and grazed parkland.