Studio MASH

Primary school can be pretty wild in lots of ways... But for central London schools, getting access to natural places that are even slightly wild is difficult.

Our Boutcher Forest School project combined architecture, art and landscape to help one Bermondsey school turn a neglected corner of their reception garden into a wild and inspiring place for year round learning and adventure.

These pics show one of the big moves from our masterplan. All along one boundary of the site – painted onto the plywood back of an advertising hoarding – an enormous mural by local artist extends the micro forest into a seemingly infinite magical woodland realm.

Sketches are piling up in the studio for the projects that are going to shape our 2026.

It's going to be another busy one: a coffee concept store in Manchester, two low energy retrofits\refurbs in Somerset, a top to bottom breathable low carbon retrofit and extension in Hackney, a phased strategic heritage retrofit in Oxford, a creative studio garden building in Sydenham and more work with a local school, amongst other exciting things (including team babies!)

The end of 2025 saw us wrapping up a few very special projects, which we'll be photographing in the spring when gardens have come back to life and the sun has begun to shine again. Excited to share those when the time comes.

Our timber, polycarbonate and corten barn in Guernsey has been shortlisted for AJ Small Projects 2025.

This pic was taken the week the larch cladding from was fitted. Warm and bright against the crisp blue Guernsey sky.

The repeating timber battens wrap around all four sides of the building, protecting the polycarbonate sheets beneath and filtering daylight into the interior. They also provide a continuous, homogenous skin that conceals the range of fixed, sliding and hinged wall sections beneath.

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