Bailey Studios

by Ashworth Parkes Architects

Client Private Client

Award RIBA East Award 2024

This modest new-build house, located in a central Cambridge conservation area, displays remarkable ingenuity in the way it utilises its compact site to create an intimate and intriguing home. The house provides accommodation for a couple, together with an apartment for their adult daughter. It has the character almost of a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle and a capacity to surprise as spaces unfold and are revealed, often using carefully designed joinery to define thresholds and entrances.

This character and ingenuity are the result of what was clearly a creative collaboration between the architects and their client, for whom this is their home. It demonstrates the value that architects can bring to unlocking the potential of constrained sites and responding to the aspirations and specific requirements of their clients.

Read the full citation from the RIBA Awards Jury on RIBA Journal

Contractor RM Construction (Cambridge) Ltd

Structural Engineer Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd

Gross internal area in m² 125