Stephen Johns Design is an architecture and design studio already known for its style and approach. With over 30 years within award winning architectural practices, we bring creativity, sustainability and a passion for the everyday to projects across the country with a handful of projects abroad.

Why we do this

Our ethos balances design, purpose and wellbeing with sustainability.

We undertake and contribute to the curious, the interesting and the challenging.

Individual Houses

Residential Schemes

Tourism and Leisure

Agricultural Conversions and Farm Diversity

Community and Commercial spaces

Estate Management

Conversions

Feasibility Studies

Concept Designs

Architecture and Urban Design

Design Coding

Detailed and Outline Planning Applications

Q Class Applications

Our approach is to achieve a timeless quality in each project and a delight in the day to day to create attractive, enduring places to live, work and play that fulfil the needs and wellbeing of our clients and end users.

The combination of extensive experience and working collaboratively ensures that we achieve environmentally responsible, economic, buildable, and elegant design solutions.

Guided by principles of site, order, natural light, and wellbeing, we search for clues that inspire organisation, form and scale.

Our projects span scales and typologies, often on challenging or sensitive sites. We combine respect for heritage with enthusiasm for the contemporary.

Alongside the ideals of simplicity, functionality, and comfort, we strive for design and place-making that harmonises with context to create environmentally focused and inclusive design that can enhance and promote people’s physical and mental wellbeing.

We embrace sustainability and technology to minimise resource use by harnessing natural assets such as light and microclimates. Through both traditional methods and new technologies, we reduce energy, materials, and carbon, supporting a circular economy.

Each client will have a different ambition for their project. We therefore guide our clients through their own projects.

We bring our skills and experience at all stages of design whether for private individuals, companies, entrepreneurs, landowners, affordable housing providers, boutique and niche developers as well as regional and national house builders.

Principles that guide our work are rooted in timeless, classical design issues such as site, order, and the use of natural light which are not unique to period, style, or context.

Our projects demonstrate our versatility across multiple scales, typologies and on sites with particular challenges, histories and opportunitie

We strive to create value through vision, vitality and viability.

Timeless designs that are rooted in light, proportions, geometry and empathy.

Enduring legacies that resonate with and can benefit the communities around our schemes.

Site and Context

Whether urban, rural, or coastal, we search for clues that inspire organisation, form, and scale to provoke a strong dialogue with their setting, a symbiotic relationship between built form, site, and environment.

Light

Natural light is central to our work and is as much a building material as wood or stone. It shapes spaces and lends spirit.

Program

We focus on the rational and coherent organisation of forms and spaces to create legibility and understanding which are fundamentals of successful buildings and spaces.

Biophilic principles

We are strong advocates of designing spaces and forms to better connect people with nature to design spaces around fresh air and natural light.

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STEPHEN JOHNS DESIGN Ltd

BOSTON HOUSE BUSINESS CENTRE

GROVE BUSINESS PARK

OXFORDSHIRE OX12 9FF