Markos Design Workshop Architects

Markos Design Workshop Architects

Bio

We are committed to overseeing every project from its inception to its completion. Designing, preparing construction information, and witnessing spaces take shape. With me, you won't become just a cog in a corporate wheel, nor will you be relegated to an assistant role. It's a collaborative journey between us to realise your project’s full potential. Good design should be accessible to everyone. A key part of being a proficient architect is working effectively within the material, time, and budgetary constraints of each project. In our view, good design is not dependent on high spend; it’s dependent on the right principles, intent, and approach, and quality care. As a young practice, we take a technology-first approach both in terms of design and construction. In so doing, we can have far better control over quality, pace of construction and precision. Our background as a practice is based on Peter’s upbringing in carpentry. In turn, this practice has given us an understanding of the integration of materials and structures, enhancing our ability to determine 'what will work', both from a financial and buildability perspective. Alongside our architecture services, our core business, we run our own unique homestay business. The business is based on homestays we have designed, built and rent out. Developing our properties gives us, as an architecture practice, our own first-hand insights into the commercial realities of developing and building our own projects, and running our own homestay business.

Address

Office 1, Izabella House, 24-26 Regent Pl,

Birmingham

West Midlands

GB

B1 3NJ

Level

Small company (< £250k turnover)

Start Date

April 24, 2026

Category

Building design/project management

Specialisms

Architecture/Design, Building Materials/Products, Building Services, Building/Contracting, Conservation/Heritage

Approved AECB Service Provider

Monocoque Cabin

The Monocoque Cabin is a timber cabin designed, owned, and operated by Markos Design Workshop, a live demonstrator of the DfMA timber system we specify for clients. Manufactured off-site in controlled factory conditions and assembled on site in days, the cabin combines an organic timber shell with fabric-first detailing, natural insulation, and breathable wall build-ups. The approach minimises construction waste, lowers embodied carbon, and delivers high thermal and airtightness performance in a small footprint. The project began as an experimental prototype and was part-funded by the Airbnb OMG Fund and Innovate UK following a competition win. It now operates as a luxury holiday let in the West Midlands, giving the practice direct, first-hand experience of how design decisions play out in build cost, operational performance, and guest use — knowledge fed directly back into client projects.

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