A design led practice renowned for crafting beautiful spaces that are holistically low energy.

Our work is underpinned by the ethos that it is only possible to deliver well-crafted, timeless and enriching spaces if the architecture is rooted in a response to its context. With a rigorous understanding of people, place and the environment, we deliver innovative design solutions that are both cost-effective and environmentally responsive. Our use of natural materials creates spaces that entice the senses, age beautifully and create healthy internal environments.

We are passionate about putting people at the centre of our work and creating places to enrich, delight and perform. To achieve this, we work closely with our clients, their stakeholders and the local community to develop a thorough understanding of their needs and aspirations. Through our use of sketches, models and 3D visualisations, our clients are involved in every stage of the design process.

  • The team collaborated with us very skilfully to provide guidance, ideas and an opportunity to help us articulate what we wanted to achieve. Always listening to and hearing us, providing timely pragmatic options and solutions, they were great to work with and the ‘final design’ more than met our brief. Overall, we can’t recommend Arbor Architects highly enough.’

    Simon & Andrew, Hawksfield House

  • We were looking for a local architect to help us develop a self-build Passivhaus and contacted 6 practices. We were impressed with Arbor when we met them and they were very helpful in letting us see a similar development that they had worked on. We have now been working with them for over 12 months and at each stage they have been able to express our requirements in the designs that they have produced. They have been very flexible in the way that they have worked with us. We have now received pre-application approval and and we trust them to help us all the way through to the build management. We would definitely recommend them.

    Simon - Clungunford

  • Matt is a highly motivated and knowledgeable architect, always going the extra mile to help keep the project on track. Working with him to deliver the UK’s first Passivhaus Plus Building at Bicester Eco Centre was an enjoyable learning curve for all involved, he was able to offer professional help and guidance throughout the process.

    Sam Lewis, Bicester Eco Business Centre

  • I’ve worked with the team at Arbor Architects on a number of projects now and they’ve been an absolute pleasure to work with. At the early design stages the ideas they presented were exactly what I wanted to see; they understood my aspirations and came up with very imaginative and creative responses. I really enjoy working with the Arbor Team and find them proactive, inspiring and fun to work with!

    Charlotte Church

  • One of the best parts of working with Arbor was the creative phase at the beginning. The brilliant vision deck that we worked through shone with amazing historical references of how buildings like ours were laid out over hundreds of years. The levels of thought and consideration on how to site a contemporary new building into an agricultural setting were unexpectedly high. And once we had identified the vision we liked, we were delighted by the effort and expertise invested in ensuing our project was as energy efficient and non polluting as possible. As we got underway, the customer service we received remained consistently high. And our more provocative ideas were listened to and executed - hence the gutters running off into our very own little waterfall!

    Sam and Faith - Cwm Barn

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