Our Skills
We believe in our own and each other’s abilities. As a team we have complementary skills to bring to the various stages and aspects of a project.
Jacqueline provides the front-end design and has a track record of successful negotiations with planners and achieving consent for schemes that push the boundaries of planning policy. Thomas provides technical back up with considerable construction experience and expertise.
We prefer to sketch and draw by hand, we can produce design iterations quickly and we find clients, planners and builders much more receptive to soft line drawings. We are able to complement this with 3D computer visualisations, CAD technical drawings, specification writing and energy and financial calculations where required.
Added Value
We are very concerned with making the best use of a client’s budget, we also have plenty of first hand experience of the trauma involved in construction work on your own home, and we seek to minimise the disruption a building project can cause. We are happy to advise on space saving ideas and will attempt to persuade a client to reduce the scope of a scheme where we feel this is appropriate, sometimes eliminating the need for costly building work altogether.
We believe Architecture should be designed to last; it should be inherently sustainable and not concerned with conservation narrowly interpreted as re-enactment. We take sustainability seriously and are keen to improve the fabric of existing buildings. Having trained in Passivhaus techniques and sustainable refurbishment at the BRE, we can provide useful, practical and affordable advice on energy efficiency and environmentally friendly construction practices.
About Us
Green and Teggin Architects was set up in 2010, and consists of a husband and wife team who had already been working together for five years. We have over twenty years joint experience working on a range of residential, educational and commercial projects in London and across the UK.
We strive to uphold a clarity of purpose, a high level of craft and tenacious attention to detail in all the projects we are involved in. We are interested in enhancing places, optimising space and optimising budgets. We do this through a synthesis of appropriate technology, sensible and sensitive attitudes to conservation, and through developing and realising our client’s aesthetic ideas and values.
Green and Teggin is an RIBA Chartered Practice, both directors are Chartered Architects and are registered with the Architects Registration Board. Jacqueline is listed on the RIBA Conservation Register, and Thomas is a Certified PassivHaus Designer.
Our Practice
Most of our projects are small residential extensions for first time clients. We believe in listening carefully to client’s ideas, evaluating the way they wish to use their space and create a meaningful brief, the basis for a successful project. We pride ourselves on providing a service appropriate to their needs and budgets.
We have high architectural aspirations, and apply these to any size of project. We believe that the simplest project can be considered architecture if it provides “commodity, firmness and delight“, good architecture however must also be political and social; it must promote situations and emergent behaviour. Great architecture is completed by the user, it improves with age, use and adaption.