10/06/2026
How should a place make people feel?
Design is a deeply personal process, yet it is also highly collaborative. Every project is shaped by conversations, ideas, constraints, ambitions and countless decisions along the way.
One of the questions we often return to is how a place should make people feel.
This question shaped our proposals for Yateley Lakes Hotel and Spa.
The ambition was never simply to create a building within a landscape, but a place where architecture, water, planting, light and nature work together to create an atmosphere of wellbeing.
Conceived as a series of planted terraces cascading towards the Blackwater River, the building dissolves into its setting. Not a single object, but a sequence of green layers woven into the site.
A place to slow down. To reconnect with nature. To step away from the demands of everyday life.
Every design decision followed from that idea.
