Andrew Lees Architect

My practice has a focus on sustainable design: holistically both in terms of low impact material specification as well as low in-use energy design. Retrofit of the existing building stock is also a key practice interest coupled with an appreciation of and experience of working with historic buildings. The Retrofit of buildings of historic interest is clearly an emergent field – I think that there are rewarding synergies to be enjoyed between rediscovering building with natural materials in pursuit of the healthy buildings today and with the buildings of the past. In 2015 I completed an MSc Architecture: Advanced Environmental and Energy Studies Graduate School of the Environment at the Centre for Alternative Technology. This was a conscious realignment of my career to one more sustainable and I stepped out of mainstream practice soon after to pursue my goal of establishing one built around my ethos. My aim is to combine sustainable architecture with creative design. Evidence based rigour coupled with buildings that delight. All projects have sustainability embedded but as well as traditional architectural design I also offer Building Energy and / or Retrofit Analysis as a stand-alone service utilising Passivhaus software for the energy simulation component.