FlowerKittle Architects are strategically located in Farnham and Bournemouth to provide architectural services to Surrey, Hampshire, West Sussex and Dorset.
We are a Royal Institute of British Architects Chartered Practice established in 2014 by founders David Flower and Paul Kittle.
We work in a variety of sectors that range in scale and type including Residential, Housing, Commercial, Public and Community projects.
Our interest lies with both new and old buildings, purposely seeking those where sites and briefs are more challenging such as within conservation areas, with Listed Buildings, AONB or National Parks.
We work at all stages of the RIBA Plan of Work from the inception of an idea to the completion of a building.
All projects are led by a studio director and undertaken in small bespoke teams. This provides focused collaboration for the team and ensures the practices’ guiding principles and quality is being maintained.
Clear communication and dialogue underpin our studio culture. We do not prescribe or prejudge. We listen to all voices and gently guide the project and clients through the process of building.
We are not fixed to a style. We are guided by a set of design principles which we find helps maintain a composed, repeatable, professional approach to each project.
We actively choose to work with sensitive, complex sites and buildings because it motivates us, and the endeavour taken to understand the physical, environmental and social context only helps enrich the design process.
We ask ourselves whether the surrounding physical environment could influence the design. Is there a relationship to the landscape? Can the orientation and topography influence how the building is situated? Can we reduce the buildings carbon impact through careful passive design – questions that help inform the brief and the designed response.
We take care to analyse and understand any sign of past use and condition. This determines how to maintain but futureproof a building’s legacy.
This research alongside the established planning context specific to the local authority forms a solid platform for designing. However, the success of a project also relies in equal measure on the balance of tangible and measurable data important for financial sustainability. From the outset, brief making includes budgetary targets, programme milestones and achieving value – aspirations specific to each client.
Getting the best from consultants and robust collaboration is key to providing the necessary information required to build. We act as Lead Consultant to help manage the team and provide the necessary direction and vision for the project.
