At West Hart, we’re passionate about inspiring with innovative design ideas – then bringing them to life. We love what we do. Our style is friendly and personal. And when we say we work in close partnership with our clients, we really mean it.
Ours is a people business. Building trust and confidence comes first. Listening, understanding and intelligently interpreting project briefs is critical to what we do. Every design response is different - blending unique individuality with experience and knowledge of what works. Presenting our ideas normally involves identifying and dealing with strategic issues - as well as technical plans, functionality, and 'look and feel' via computer-generated imagery and animated flythroughs.
Once the project proceeds, we continue to work in the closest possible partnership at every stage until successful completion.
We understand how spaces work. We create welcoming entrances, clear way finding, light and airy interiors, organised layouts, comfortable and healthy environments. Calm and inspiring atmospheres where people can feel relaxed and confident. Places where people like to be.
Drawing on experience
Working exclusively in the public sector, on government-funded and community-led projects for Primary Care Trusts and educational establishments, we’re fully familiar with their administrative and legal processes and constraints – as well as critical needs such as environmental stability and the demonstration of best value. Knowing what works is a great starting point.
We love a challenge - even tough ones. Harmonising conflicting interests, making money go further, maintaining separate identities where necessary, balancing openness with the need for private space, combining security with a friendly atmosphere, encouraging teamwork, ensuring sustainability and value – these can be difficult and complex issues which need sensitive and intelligent handling.
Sometimes it’s the little things that can make all the difference – those special touches that change the ordinary into something strikingly unique. Carefully chosen finishes, creative use of colour, light and imaginative materials can all transform a conventional environment into one where people will want to be.
An inviting and welcoming entrance. Airy interior spaces filled with natural daylight - a vital factor for emotional well-being. An appealing sense of space, where one public area blends naturally into another. Elements like these play a large part in our design approach – creating calm and pleasant atmospheres and environments where people and communities can work, learn, relax and interact effectively.
We are committed to sustainable development and believe sustainability is all about achieving a considered balance between economic, social and environmental concerns to provide benefit for both the present and the future. Early consideration and incorporation is essential to ensure that appropriate measures are designed in rather than simply bolted on.
Wherever possible we use low-energy devices and passive solutions including rainwater harvesting, roof-mounted solar panels, photovoltaic cells and geothermal ground heat pumps. High levels of insulation, natural ventilation and sensible orientation also contribute to sensitive, sustainable design.
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