Designing homes and communities where people truly belong

award-winning architects for cohousing, community-led housing and community buildings across the South West, and for eco homes, extensions and retrofits that tread lightly. From our studios in Bristol, Devon and Dorset, we co-design places with the people who will live in them.

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Residential apartment buildings with gardens and balconies in a community setting.
Modern kitchen and dining area with large windows overlooking outdoor patio with brick and wooden steps.
Urban street scene with modern apartment building, small grocery stand with produce, pedestrians including a cyclist carrying a backpack, and street signs showing East Street 3 and a bus stop sign.
Modern house with a wooden deck, outdoor dining table, large sliding glass doors, and shadows of trees on the exterior wall.
Barefoot Cabins: angular timber-clad garden cabin in a wildflower garden
land:form: timber frame home being lifted into place by crane on a rural site
Illustrated landscape with trees, greenery, and modern structures in the background, overlaid with white text reading 'paragraph 84'.
Bridport Cohousing: sunlit timber-clad terraces with solar roofs and shared gardens
cohousing
The Swannery, Bristol: a former pub retrofitted as a community youth centre, with a colourful mural on its walls
community
A man cycling on the street in front of a modern building with a flower shop on the ground floor, with trees and other pedestrians visible.
housing
Modern multi-story house with large windows and a unique external structure supported by tilted columns, a car parked underneath, and a front garden with shrubs and grass.
eco homes
Modern kitchen with brick and wooden accents, sliding glass doors opening to a backyard, and a kitchen island with flowers and plants on a shelf.
extensions
A modern two-story house with a white and dark wood exterior, situated at the edge of a wooded area. A man in a white jacket walks near a small dog on the driveway, which is surrounded by a low white wall and a slightly sloped yard.
retrofit
Barefoot Cabins: timber garden cabin with sliding glass doors in a planted back garden

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cabins
An architectural drawing of a hillside multi-level building integrated with greenery and trees, featuring large windows and wooden frame structure.
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land:form: timber frame home being lifted into place by crane on a rural site
land:form

Barefoot Architects work is rooted in ethical values doing the right thing for people, for places and for the future. our projects are connected to the places we work, in touch with the people we serve, and tread lightly on the planet.

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Nothing Wasted: A Circular Approach to Three Low-Carbon Homes
Nothing Wasted: A Circular Approach to Three Low-Carbon Homes

By David Caldwell

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Building the Neighbourhoods We Need - Five lessons for successful cohousing
Building the Neighbourhoods We Need - Five lessons for successful cohousing

By Sam Goss

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Community led housing: the best thing since sliced bread?
Community led housing: the best thing since sliced bread?

By Sam Goss

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Why we started Barefoot Cabins
Why we started Barefoot Cabins

By Rob Hankey

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