Using Local Landscape Materials
We aim to create and sustain places that feel rooted in the landscape, that reflect and enhance the lives and pursuits of the people who inhabit them.
Very happy to hear that our furniture for @maggiesinsouthampton has been longlisted for the Dezeen awards 2022!!! - design and fabrication @localworkstudio • metalwork by @makingitout_cio • garden design @sarahpricelandscapes @maggiescentres @dezeen @dezeenawards_ #sustainabledesign #furnituredesign #lwsjournal #dezeenawards2022
A pair of extra garden chairs for @maggiesinsouthampton designed by us and made in collaboration with the excellent @makingitout_cio 👨🏭 with waste fire hose textile from @hantsiowfireservice 🔥 to sit in the garden by @sarahpricelandscapes. Thank you @maggiescentres #wasteisaresource #gardenchair #design #furnituredesign #circulareconomy #chairdesign #chair #landscapefurniture #lwsjournal #localworksstudio #reuse #sustainabledesign #firehose
This is a castable waste-based concrete we have recently developed, using a high proportion of site waste for a project with @bakerbrown_studio @elliottwood_partnership @chalmersandcosussexltd ♻️. Very happy that it has just passed the independent compressive strength tests 🏋️♀️ We are casting several large window and door cills for the project with this material. Looking forward to seeing them polished! 28.8 N/mm2 @ 28 days…….95% UK waste…..of which….85% is site waste……♻️ #materialdesign #circulardesign #compressivestrength #strong #materialscience #buildingmaterials #makingmaterials #lwsjournal #design #concrete #concretedesign #polishedconcrete #wasteisaresource #sustainabledesign #terrazzo #terrazzodesign #surfacedesign #architecture #sustainablearchitecture #buildingcraft #greenarchitecture #landscapearchitecture #landscapearchitect #concretearchitecture #reuse #reusearchitecture #architecturephotography #archidaily #architexture #archilovers
Reposted from localworkstudio Some samples leaving the workshop today. Internal plasters and external renders made from site-based materials 🌾🌱🌿for our project in #southdownsnationalpark with bbm_sustainable_design #lwsjournal #landscapearchitecture
We are hiring! Link in bio for more information…. We are looking to employ a highly versatile designer for the built environment, to lead on technical and delivery phases across the studio’s portfolio of projects, as well as building our capacity for research and best practice around circular economy for construction. This role would suit a landscape architect, or architect, with an excellent knowledge of materials and their application, as well as a good understanding of landscape systems. The ideal candidate will have proven experience and enthusiasm for new thinking and methods of sustainable construction and circular economy. The role requires curiosity and creativity, as well as rigorous attention to detail and skill, in order to apply and develop our alternative working methodologies, designed to facilitate low carbon construction. The successful applicant will be highly collaborative, ready to learn from and support others, as well as facilitating a high level of stakeholder engagement. They will be a central figure in our small studio, with an ambition to help shape the growing practice. #landscapearchitecturejobs #architecturejobs #circulareconomyjobs #localworksstudio #lwsjournal
Prototyping for @assembleofficial. Waste-based lime mortars with tiles by @granbyworkshop ♻️♻️♻️#buildingcraft #wasteisaresource #lwsjournal #architecture
Paver bricks made by us for @exchangeerith garden by @sarahpricelandscapes. Made using demolition materials from recent building works at The Exchange ♻️. The 1000 bricks will form hard landscaped areas in the new garden, and reference the original parquet flooring inside the building. Looking forward to seeing these in-situ. #wastebasedbricks #paverbricks #herringboneflooring #parquetflooring #lwsjournal #landscapearchitecture #brick #brickpavers #bricklove #hardlandscaping #gardendesign #erith #crayfordbrickearth
...following on from last post. More samples for false reefs made from waste shell materials #shellcrete #heavygardening Andrew Merritt @somethingandson @dewiuridge #landscapearchitecture #oysterarchitecture #reef #falsereef #oyster #oysters #livingreef #wasteisaresource #materialdesign #mussels #molusc #biodiversity #landscapearchitecture #lwsjournal #oysterreef #shellcrete #shell #shellfish #musselshells #liverpool #tateliverpool #oysterreefrestoration
Our chairs for @maggiesinsouthampton enjoying the sun today. They’ll sit permanently outside in the beautiful garden by @sarahpricelandscapes. …………………………Chair design, prototyping and textile work (#twillweave) ♻️ - Local Works Studio. Fire hose textile sourced as local waste and kindly donated by @hantsiowfireservice🔥Metal work by the amazing @makingitout_cio 🧑🏭- Making it Out work with people who have recently left prison or are at risk of ending up in prison without support. They offer work experience, training and employment opportunities to people who are not yet ready for the demands of the regular workplace. The participants learn valuable design and craft skills and get involved in the entire design process, manufacture and fulfilment. They focus on the use of sustainable materials and put an emphasis on high quality workmanship based on simple innovative solutions. #chair #maggies @maggiescentres #chairdesign #wasteisaresource #lwsjournal
Completed false reef structure for #heavygardening project with Andrew Merritt @somethingandson. This will be sited underwater at the bottom of Royal Albert Dock, Liverpool. Hoping for maximum colonisation by shellfish and other sea life. The full sculpture will include 8 ropes for mussels to grow on 🐚 🦞 🦪 🦐 🐠 🐟. The reef structure ring is cast with our #shellcrete material using waste oyster shells from seafood restaurants. The outer shell decoration should mimic natural oyster reefs, and encourage different bivalve molluscs to grow on the shelly surface. #increasebiodiversity #shellcrete #oyster #oysterreef #mussels #liverpool #lwsjournal #falsereef #reef #oysters #oystershell #shell
So happy to make a long-awaited design team visit to Barking Riverside yesterday with Xavier Llarch Font from @thedecorators and @anushkaathique. For the past month we’ve been busy reviewing the Placemaking Strategy for Barking Riverside and preparing to develop an implementation plan for placemaking interventions across this enormous site. Very exciting to be thinking at such a mind-blowing scale, at a very challenging time, that is nonetheless full of potential for positive change. #barkingriverside #placemaking #lwsjournal
Really enjoying our design and prototyping process for some external furniture for @maggiescentres with @sarahpricelandscapes. We are designing and making tables and benches using materials from the site and immediate local area. ♻️♻️♻️ #reuse #landscapearchitecture #wasteisaresource #lwsjournal @maggiesinsouthampton
Prototyping a new garden chair with attached side table for @maggiesinsouthampton. The finished piece will look quite different, but it’s great to realise in plywood first. Many thanks again to @jsanders22 #lwsjournal
Excited to share that we’ve been working with @carmodygroarke and @transarchitectuurstedenbouw to develop a bespoke brick, for the extension to @designmuseumgent. For the last few months we’ve been testing and prototyping excavation sub-soil materials from Gent, blending them with lime, and forming bricks in a high-pressure press. The eventual fabrication of the bricks will happen as close to Design Museum Gent as possible, to reduce material transportation. It’s a great project, and a real pleasure to be involved. #designmuseumgent #lwsjournal #brick #bricklove #localrockscene #architecture #materialdesign @circular.flanders #wastebasedbricks #circulareconomy #gent #ghent @restarchitecten
Very grateful to @heritagecrafts for awarding us a generous grant from their latest round of funding 💥♻️💥@sussexheritagetrust #buildingcraft #wasteisaresource #learningfromthevernacular #lwsjournal
Really happy to have started our work @glyndebourne for a project run by @bakerbrown_studio. We are currently collecting the Glyndebourne glass waste, which will be crushed and transformed into bespoke building materials and features for a new permanent pavilion within the gardens. We are also collecting raw excavated chalks, clays and plant materials from the surrounding estate. 🍾 🍹 🍺 🍷 ♻️♻️♻️ #architecture #reuse #wasteisaresource #glyndebourne #southdownsnationalpark #lwsjournal
Tile samples for a new floor on a current project. The tiles are a waste-based concrete, made using over-ordered building materials and other waste from the site ♻️. Part of a series of finishes designed, prototyped, fabricated and installed by LWS. #reuse #architecture #materialinvention #lwsjournal #materialdesign #materialdesigners #circulareconomy
Very excited to introduce and welcome Ben Brace to Local Works Studio! Ben is a Chartered Landscape Architect and joins us as Senior Designer and Head of Sustainability, from his previous position as Green Space Projects Manager at the Royal Horticultural Society. Ben will be implementing and developing the studios’ low carbon construction methods and use of local regenerative, landscape materials across all of our projects 🌱 #landscapearchitecture #lwsjournal #localworksstudio #circulareconomy #sustainableconstruction #regenerativelandscapes
Paver tiles for a garden by @sarahpricelandscapes. Made by us from waste and excess construction materials ♻️ Looking forward to seeing these in-situ. #wastebrick #c.andre 🧱 #lwsjournal #localworksstudio #brick #bricks #architecture #landscapearchitecture #hardlandscaping #hardlandscape #paverbrick #wastebricks #wastebasedbricks #materials #architecturematerials
Splitting sweet chestnut timber for a couple of our Sussex projects 🌰 🪓 🌰 We love everything about chestnut! It’s an amazing timber with so many qualities and potential applications. The cyclical felling and re-growth of managed coppice woodlands has huge benefits for the biodiversity of the woods and carbon capture. Thanks to @jsanders22 for his very fine lath making. #coppice #sweetchestnut #carbonsequestration #sustainablewoodlands #lwsjournal #buildwithwood #buildingcraft #landscapecraft #craft