SHAPING FUTURE PLACES
Stride Treglown is a 300-strong employee owned practice. We bring together individuals with different skills and approaches, to create places in which people want to visit, play and relax.
Designing new places is something we have a unique insight into. Combining this with our knowledge of designing offices, education, retail, health, hotels, leisure and housing gives us the understanding needed to create a sustainable new place for the future.
Designing new places is something we have a unique insight into. Combining this with our knowledge of designing offices, education, retail, health, hotels, leisure and housing gives us the understanding needed to create a sustainable new place for the future.
CREATING INSPIRING PLACES TO ADAPT, GROW AND EVOLVE
DESIGN APPROACH
We are passionate about creating inspiring places that can adapt, grow and evolve to meet the future needs, whatever they may be.
Good architecture can transform lives and rejuvenate places. We focus on the needs of individuals and use design to improve their emotional wellbeing and surroundings. This simple philosophy informs all our work. |
OUR CULTURE
In 2015 we became employee-owned, giving everybody the opportunity to influence key business decisions.
Through our Employee Forum, we asked our staff to sum up their experience of Stride Treglown’s culture. They identified three themes: Freedom – the ability for all staff to work flexibly, progress professionally, express their creativity and positively influence change across the business.
Integrity – the ability to do the right thing, to lead by example, be open and honest, and to act with professionalism. Quirkiness – the ability to try something bold, unique or different. We are a practice that prefers to host cider festivals and mountain bike events to formal networking evenings. We understand the importance of health and wellbeing, and not just for the occupants of the places we design.
n 2015, we became the first UK organisation to achieve ‘Excellence’ in all eight areas of the Workplace Wellbeing Charter: a great excuse to have another garden party. These are strong expressions of our culture made by those who shape it. They represent an attitude that influences everything that we do.
Through our Employee Forum, we asked our staff to sum up their experience of Stride Treglown’s culture. They identified three themes: Freedom – the ability for all staff to work flexibly, progress professionally, express their creativity and positively influence change across the business.
Integrity – the ability to do the right thing, to lead by example, be open and honest, and to act with professionalism. Quirkiness – the ability to try something bold, unique or different. We are a practice that prefers to host cider festivals and mountain bike events to formal networking evenings. We understand the importance of health and wellbeing, and not just for the occupants of the places we design.
n 2015, we became the first UK organisation to achieve ‘Excellence’ in all eight areas of the Workplace Wellbeing Charter: a great excuse to have another garden party. These are strong expressions of our culture made by those who shape it. They represent an attitude that influences everything that we do.
SUSTAINABILITY
We are committed to sustainability and responding to environmental issues across all aspects of our work.
We like to lead by example and are proud of our carbon neutral Cardiff office and our many in-house sustainability initiatives, which include Business Green Weeks, staff allotments and company beehives. Whether designing at community scale, for a workplace or a home, we approach sustainable design in the same way:
We like to lead by example and are proud of our carbon neutral Cardiff office and our many in-house sustainability initiatives, which include Business Green Weeks, staff allotments and company beehives. Whether designing at community scale, for a workplace or a home, we approach sustainable design in the same way:
Strategic Thinking
We are proud to take an holistic approach that considers all possible wider opportunities and linkages, sometimes outside of a project’s brief or the site boundary. First Principles Early consideration of the most appropriate orientation, density, building form and layout to exploit opportunities for passive heating, cooling and lighting. We use environmental modelling software Sefaira to test our designs. |
Collaborative Design
Where possible we strive to involve the building occupants or communities who will live, work or use the places that we create in the design process. Promoting inclusion where possible. Fabric First Optimising design to reduce heat loss and waste and promote energy efficiency before the application of renewables or expensive add-ons. |
Unique Solutions
There are advantages for uniformity in terms of efficiency, quality & cost. But no two subjects are the same. We design to be site-and-brief-responsive rather than follow a ‘one size fits all’ approach. People First Putting people at the heart of the design to create environments that are comfortable, controllable and life-enriching. |