Dwyran Farm

Dwyran Farm is a farmstead located in Anglesey, Wales. The proposal is to create an off grid and self-sufficient building while exploring sustainable materials and methods of construction.

The client is directly involved in the building process, becoming experts in construction and therefore able to maintain and repair the farm in the future.

The proposal is to convert the previous pig farm into a multi use community hub along with a camping site and associated facilities. The main barn is turned into a community building while the outbuilding will be turned into supporting facilities, with showers, dry toilets and communal kitchen.

The adaptation of the existing buildings is in keeping with the existing fabric. New barrel vaults roofs are proposed on the outbuildings to provide enhance internal communal spaces.

‣ Client: Private
Budget £300,000.00
Location: Anglesey, UK
Stage: Planning

Warrington Crescent

This project centres on the careful refurbishment and energy retrofit of a Grade II listed flat located within the Maida Vale Conservation Area of London.

The work reorganises the layout to suit contemporary living, while also repairing the building’s historic fabric inside and out. It aims to give a European Mediterranean feel to a very London Victorian space: with the introduction of zellige tiles stored for 20 years, ‘tomettes’ tiles. Second-hand furniture and details like door handles are coordinated with repaired British mouldings and pine flooring to create an hybrid aesthetic.

Timber joists, floors and sash windows are meticulously restored, while the external masonry walls now insulated using hempcrete and lime. This is a low-impact approach that allows the structure to regulate air and vapour exchanges between the inside and outside while reducing carbon emissions and construction costs.

Throughout the project, natural materials were favoured. Hempcrete, lime and timber for the new elements are combined with non-toxic finishes such as clay paint helping to regulate humidity and improve indoor air quality. The use of plastic and plasterboard was deliberately reduced in favour of more sustainable alternatives when possible.

The refurbishment aims to future-proof the flat against the pressures of climate change over the next half-century, particularly the urban heat island effect in West London.

A reconfigured bathroom now doubles as a cool room during summer heatwaves, while the reinstated timber windows and chimney vents restore natural ventilation.

© Photographs Rachel Ferriman

‣ Client: Private
Budget £205,000.00
Location: London, UK
Status: Listed Building Grade II
Structural Engineer: Webb Yates Engineers
Contractor: Hut & Blom
Completion: November 2024
Stage: Built

Crinkle Crankle

The 2023 strawberry table is a bricolage interpretation of a traditional English garden feature: the crinkle crankle wall. Whereas its waves usually keep fruit trees sheltered, the sinuous low-level wall bears strawberries today.

Using the structural strength provided by its curved geometry, the low-level wall is one leaf thin: an opportunity to create unexpected encounters either side of the wall and to celebrate one strawberry at a time!

The structure has been assembled without mortar with the support of stonemason from PAYE. The stone bricks are Portland Stone Heritage bricks, cut from stone waste and donated by Albion Stone. The clay bricks have been salvaged from local London site by General Demolition. Once all strawberries are eaten, the table will be dismantled for immediate reuse.

The Skin-Rocks

House of bricoleurs did scenographic work for artist Céleste Rogosin's first solo show The Skin-Rocks (Les Peaux roches). It is on view at the FRAC Grand-Large from October 4th 2025 and until January 4, 2026.

The show is grounded in the context of France’s Côte d’Opal, metaphorically, and physically through the rocks, gravel and dust sourced from a local quarry - Carrières de la Vallée Heureuse.

The exhibition gathers several pieces, including:
- Djoukie’s Vertigo (fragments), 2025 in collaboration with Quebec writer Daniel Danis, video installation.
- Braid the Kinks from Your Mind, 2021, installation (chair, hose clamps, cables, glass sea shell) FRAC Grand Large collection.
- Liminal Bodies, 2021, UV prints on Dibon Aluminium, CNAP Collection.
- The Edge of Eternity, 2025, video installation.

We collaborated with the artist to develop the scenography: to spatially perceive the view points, understand the visitor circulation and develop layout possibilities to support the artist’s vision.