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Cotswold

£3m to £4.99M
Black Barn Studios , Swerford Road , Hook Norton , Oxfordshire , OX15 5JR , United Kingdom
This project is the new headquarters for an employee-owned ethical finance company, designed as a regenerative exemplar that reflects the organisation's values. An almost entirely timber building sits within two retained steel-frame agricultural barns, minimising embodied carbon through careful reuse. High-performance bio-based materials deliver passive-equivalent energy performance, while a large photovoltaic and battery system generates clean electricity on-site. The flexible workspace is shared between the finance company, an education foundation, and the local community. Across the wider 24-acre site, extensive rewilding and planting supports a projected 3,300 tonnes of carbon sequestration, with carbon neutrality anticipated within ten years.