Atkinson Architects advocate the salvage of all good quality natural materials – keeping them on-site for re-use wherever possible as an integral part of new design.
This sound approach to conservation also helps to minimise the environmental impact and costs related to building work.
Finding a positive use for this mature English Oak, sadly uprooted and felled during winter storms. Sawn and seasoned on our site in Dartmoor National Park. This beautiful oak will become the facade and structure for a new building located just a few metres from where the tree once grew.
Delabole scantle slates, already around a hundred years old but in perfect condition – all carefully dismantled, graded and stored. Re-used on a new stone barn for their unique character.
Old timber roof trusses, temporarily removed whilst new buildings receive conservation repairs to stone wall heads and capping plates. The trusses, once tested for structural strength, were gently cleaned and reinstated as the main roof support frame.
Local Devon stone, unearthed from nearby buildings long since fallen down – cleaned and re-used for all new walls.
