Daykin Marshall Studio

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.
INFILL SITES DELIVER HOUSING | Underused and neglected sites can be found all over our urban and suburban areas. In both private and public ownership these pockets and land are one part of the wide range of approaches we need to tackle to address the housing crisis. In this scheme, abandoned garages become the site for fourteen social rent units in south London.
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
LOW CARBON, LOW IMPACT, RECYCLED | We see high-end new build projects, especially those permitted through the demanding requirements of the national policy 'Paragraph 80', as opportunities to lead by example. Housed within recycled red brick walls this project is an off-grid, low-carbon timber framed microclimatically designed 'forever' home.
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.
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

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

31.05.2024

Willow House will go on site in July 2024 and we're excited to see this scheme come to fruition. It adds modern living spaces to a 1970s house revealing and amplifying its desert modernist origins.

24.05.2024

Plans have been submitted as part of a wide ranging public placemaking masterplan to create additional facilities at Dulwich Sports Club, including new tennis courts, the introduction of Padel courts and the construction of new croquet lawns along with a dedicated pavilion.

05.05.2024

Our clients for Wells House have been preparing the site, a former farming field, for their new home by planting meadow land grass. Here it is looking resplendent and verdant during a walk over the Bank Holiday.

Following two years of design work and close collaboration between our clients, a creative design team and Newark & Sherwood District Council, supported by brilliant discussions with the Midland Design Review Panel, we have achieved planning permission for a Paragraph 80 new-build house in the Nottinghamshire countryside. You can read more about this low-carbon, off grid home using recycled materials on the link below.

05.04.2024

Planning has been granted for this timber framed, system built replacement dwelling in the Witterings on the south coast. The new home provides enlarged, modern accommodation for our clients who came from the area and, now retired, have returned to walk and sail the coastline. Designed to Passivhaus principles, the dwelling will be super insulated and use minimal energy for heating.

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.

14.02.2024

We're currently working with Newark & Sherwood District Council in the East Midlands on a project funded by Historic England through the High Street Heritage Action Zone funding. The collaborative study is focussing on four case studies, including the former Gilstrap Hotel, to analyse the viability gap that often blocks the reuse of listed commercial property upper floors for alternative uses.

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

Today we've been photographing our south London project Balham Park with the brilliant Nick Smith and featuring model dog Winnie! What this space for more on the project.

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

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

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.
31.05.2024

Willow House will go on site in July 2024 and we're excited to see this scheme come to fruition. It adds modern living spaces to a 1970s house revealing and amplifying its desert modernist origins.

INFILL SITES DELIVER HOUSING | Underused and neglected sites can be found all over our urban and suburban areas. In both private and public ownership these pockets and land are one part of the wide range of approaches we need to tackle to address the housing crisis. In this scheme, abandoned garages become the site for fourteen social rent units in south London.
24.05.2024

Plans have been submitted as part of a wide ranging public placemaking masterplan to create additional facilities at Dulwich Sports Club, including new tennis courts, the introduction of Padel courts and the construction of new croquet lawns along with a dedicated pavilion.

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
05.05.2024

Our clients for Wells House have been preparing the site, a former farming field, for their new home by planting meadow land grass. Here it is looking resplendent and verdant during a walk over the Bank Holiday.

LOW CARBON, LOW IMPACT, RECYCLED | We see high-end new build projects, especially those permitted through the demanding requirements of the national policy 'Paragraph 80', as opportunities to lead by example. Housed within recycled red brick walls this project is an off-grid, low-carbon timber framed microclimatically designed 'forever' home.

Following two years of design work and close collaboration between our clients, a creative design team and Newark & Sherwood District Council, supported by brilliant discussions with the Midland Design Review Panel, we have achieved planning permission for a Paragraph 80 new-build house in the Nottinghamshire countryside. You can read more about this low-carbon, off grid home using recycled materials on the link below.

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.
05.04.2024

Planning has been granted for this timber framed, system built replacement dwelling in the Witterings on the south coast. The new home provides enlarged, modern accommodation for our clients who came from the area and, now retired, have returned to walk and sail the coastline. Designed to Passivhaus principles, the dwelling will be super insulated and use minimal energy for heating.

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 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.

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
14.02.2024

We're currently working with Newark & Sherwood District Council in the East Midlands on a project funded by Historic England through the High Street Heritage Action Zone funding. The collaborative study is focussing on four case studies, including the former Gilstrap Hotel, to analyse the viability gap that often blocks the reuse of listed commercial property upper floors for alternative uses.

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

Today we've been photographing our south London project Balham Park with the brilliant Nick Smith and featuring model dog Winnie! What this space for more on the project.

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