Marcus Beale Architects was established in 1991. The practice works from the Old Post Office in Wimbledon, London. We design and build new things in old places: including conservation, heritage, education, sports, residential, public, commercial, religious, residential, and urban design projects across the UK. MBA collaborates with other leading practices in conservation and masterplanning roles We work closely with expert contractors to ensure a high quality to match the requirements of the project brief.
Sustainability: environmental, social and economic is central to our approach. MBA works on Grade I, Grade II* and Grade II, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Conservation Areas, and Scheduled Monuments. This requires thoughtful, sensitive and creative solutions, supporting the historic and cultural values and sense of place. Residential, commercial, conservation, education and religious architects work we are completing includes:.
Sustainability: environmental, social and economic is central to our approach. MBA works on Grade I, Grade II* and Grade II, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Conservation Areas, and Scheduled Monuments. This requires thoughtful, sensitive and creative solutions, supporting the historic and cultural values and sense of place. Residential, commercial, conservation, education and religious architects work we are completing includes:.
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We employ a conservation approach: changes to a place are based on evidence-based understanding of setting, history and significance.
Our aim is to achieve sustainable use of buildings and sites to achieve best value in cultural, environmental and economic terms.
Since MBA's foundation in 1991 we have worked in highly protected sties including many Oxford Colleges, Grade I listed buildings, Conservation Areas, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Scheduled Monuments in and around London and the south east, as well as regeneration projects centred on heritage assets across the UK.
Our aim is to achieve sustainable use of buildings and sites to achieve best value in cultural, environmental and economic terms.
Since MBA's foundation in 1991 we have worked in highly protected sties including many Oxford Colleges, Grade I listed buildings, Conservation Areas, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Scheduled Monuments in and around London and the south east, as well as regeneration projects centred on heritage assets across the UK.
Think before you act - understand not only the physical building, setting and context, but also its significance.
When you change something, make this a minimal intervention - maybe radical - but no more than it needs.
This approach requires a love and understanding not only of forms, materials and methods of construction of the city, but also the ideas, forces, rhythms, human needs of those who shape it.
If it's true for important historic places, why shouldn't it also be true for every place, especially new development?
When you change something, make this a minimal intervention - maybe radical - but no more than it needs.
This approach requires a love and understanding not only of forms, materials and methods of construction of the city, but also the ideas, forces, rhythms, human needs of those who shape it.
If it's true for important historic places, why shouldn't it also be true for every place, especially new development?
Energy heating, cooling, lighting and ventilating buildings is mostly avoidable with intelligent design and good management.
We have a temperate climate subject to change.
Environmental sustainability means intelligent, climate-adaptive buildings with minimal CO2 footprint in construction and in use, good water management, the creative re-use of waste and efficient building practices.
Economic sustainability means structures which give appropriate flexible use over the lifetime of the city, adding value in the broadest sense.
We have a temperate climate subject to change.
Environmental sustainability means intelligent, climate-adaptive buildings with minimal CO2 footprint in construction and in use, good water management, the creative re-use of waste and efficient building practices.
Economic sustainability means structures which give appropriate flexible use over the lifetime of the city, adding value in the broadest sense.
Gathering together enables teamwork, specialised talent, commerce, industry and culture.
Architects are intelligent parts of a city: renewing, providing habitable space.
Carrying nothing heavier than a pencil, many tonnes of material are deployed to deliver shelter, investment, inhabitation.
Architecture is the theatre of daily life.
Paradoxically, although we work hard at the built elements, the space enclosed is the valuable commodity.
The work is described in drawings and photographs, yet space is invisible, directly heard and indirectly seen.
Architects are intelligent parts of a city: renewing, providing habitable space.
Carrying nothing heavier than a pencil, many tonnes of material are deployed to deliver shelter, investment, inhabitation.
Architecture is the theatre of daily life.
Paradoxically, although we work hard at the built elements, the space enclosed is the valuable commodity.
The work is described in drawings and photographs, yet space is invisible, directly heard and indirectly seen.
We live under an ocean of air which fills at high pressure the space between solid walls and liquid body.
As a city we all speak and breathe into one connected body of air modulated into squares and streets, alleyways, courtyards and rooms; all interconnected.
As we live we make sound, voluntarily and involuntarily, and architectural space comes alive with inhabitation.
The sounds of daily life are real activities in space and time, and all human life involves water.
Architecture encloses this activity, reflecting sound back into itself as air meets wall, the sound modulated by the shape, materials, and micro-porosity of its surfaces.
As a city we all speak and breathe into one connected body of air modulated into squares and streets, alleyways, courtyards and rooms; all interconnected.
As we live we make sound, voluntarily and involuntarily, and architectural space comes alive with inhabitation.
The sounds of daily life are real activities in space and time, and all human life involves water.
Architecture encloses this activity, reflecting sound back into itself as air meets wall, the sound modulated by the shape, materials, and micro-porosity of its surfaces.
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