RISE Design Studio

Scallop House by RISE Design Studio began with pink-terracotta render. Developed design kept the scalloped form and swapped colour for lime, clay and oak. Now on site in Stoke Newington, with a rammed earth effect finish on test. #Architecture bit.ly/4cnGR5n

At Origami House in Haringey, RISE Design Studio and Triple M engineers moved the supports beneath a Victorian outrigger, creating a column-free corner where kitchen, dining and garden meet. The steel is in. Here’s how it works: bit.ly/3VQwhiF

Four peaks, borrowed from 1855. RISE Design Studio's speculative, pro bono concept for a community pavilion at the Grade II listed chapels in Paddington Old Cemetery, Kilburn, shaped with local resident Tessa Morrison. #Kilburn #Heritage bit.ly/4yo779C

Flower House is nearly complete. RISE Design Studio's Victorian terrace extension in Queen's Park takes the street's arches to the garden in white lime render, with roof glazing and a canopy left open for a tree to grow through. bit.ly/4AUKHP1

Warm air rises. A stair with an opening rooflight at the top will purge a warm house on a summer evening for nothing. New on the RISE journal: how the stack effect works, where it fails, and how it sits alongside airtightness and MVHR. bit.ly/4xTefdD

From the archive: a yoga retreat RISE Design Studio designed for a working farm above Lake Krøderen, Norway. Two timber cabins from the courtyard, a spa dug into the hillside on the lake side. Taken to planning stage. bit.ly/4r9z6af

A Gaudí house in the middle of nowhere. Sean Ronnie Hill of RISE Design Studio visits the Xalet del Catllaràs, a catenary-section house at 1,371 m in the Pyrenees, built for Güell's mining engineers and confirmed as Gaudí's work in 2026. bit.ly/4xTl2nE

Sustainable clothes in Barcelona, in a shop built to last. RISE Design Studio on INDOI Ghar, Poblenou: organic and regenerative cotton, made to order, in a restored bajos with its original terrazzo and timber doors. bit.ly/4xiimyK

José Dengra of RISE Design Studio spent a day at Can Lis, Jørn Utzon's stone house on a Mallorcan cliff. Four pavilions, windows with no frames, furniture built from the walls. What it teaches about light and material in London homes: bit.ly/466ehTl

Solar shading shouldn't be an afterthought. With ~90% of UK homes at risk of overheating under 2°C warming, RISE Design Studio makes the case for designing it in from the start, and shows how, at Ribbon House in Queen's Park. bit.ly/4ayT72U #PassiveDesign

Architecture is not the product. Trust is. The architecture is the outcome. RISE Design Studio founder Sean Hill on what he got wrong in the first five years, and the lesson that reshaped the practice. bit.ly/3RU5PCN

RISE Design Studio imagined a padel court on the edge of Regent's Park: a full-height glazed wall framing the green, a glulam roof storing carbon, a court that answers the canopy outside. The Japanese call it shakkei, borrowed scenery.

Two windows on one wall, designed never to agree. One follows the sun, one holds the view. The new RISE Design Studio Journal piece starts with the Douglas House kitchen, and the sketch drawn before it existed. bit.ly/4xmwwjV

6am. Serpentine Lake. 23.7°C Sean Ronnie Hill swims here year-round. In January it is 4°C. Same lake. Completely different proposition The best buildings work the same way. You stop noticing the environment because it has already taken care of itself risedesignstudio.co.uk/journ…

Sean Ronnie Hill of RISE Design Studio visited Matiz Gallery in Barcelona and wrote about Adam Weismann's unfired rammed earth panels-compressed geology, honest material, no paint, no pretence.Reminder of what natural materials can do when allowed to be bit.ly/4uCJg47

Samsung filmed their latest campaign at Herbert Paradise, a low-energy EnerPHit home in Kensal Rise by RISE They weren't looking for a stylish backdrop. They were looking for calm. And that calm is a product of building science as much as design. bit.ly/3PRZF5t

Most UK homes were built when energy was cheap. The buildings have not changed. The energy market has. RISE Design Studio on why fabric-first design, not tariff switching, is the only durable answer. bit.ly/42LvShC

As snow hits London, many homes are fighting the cold - draughts, freezing rooms and soaring energy bills. Low-energy architecture changes that. Warmth held gently. Comfort you can trust. Why it matters now: bit.ly/3YuXIwB

Origami House is a low-energy extension to a Victorian terrace in London, combining folded geometry with a fabric-first retrofit, solar PV and an air source heat pump. Architecture shaped by performance, not compromise. bit.ly/4qhRzQ6

RISE Design Studio speaks with Adam Weismann of Clayworks on clay plaster, healthy buildings and sustainable architecture that breathes. Read & watch → bit.ly/4q30kOx