Lungfish Architects turn five

Lungfish Architects, SCAPE’s in-house architects, is an innovative practice with a foot firmly in public sector design.

Celebrating its fifth anniversary, the team at Lungfish are not ones for being complacent or standing still. They’re utilising their experience and honing their skills to deliver multimillion pound residential schemes, flagship net-zero forest schools and all-through schools, community spaces and even Covid-safe office environments for frontline workers, and our very own SCAPE head office.

Every project designed by the team is derived from a passion that places the end user at the heart. Working side-by-side with clients, establishing themselves as part of the team and through careful interrogation of the brief, understanding the necessities of the project and client aspirations, Lungfish has achieved some truly remarkable outcomes.

He continued, "We’ve taken the learning we’ve gained from our education design and utilised and enhanced this for several projects in residential, blue-light, extra care, commercial and community sectors. The team are currently working on exciting and innovative residential designs that will give whole communities much needed housing, forest schools that create a harmony with the natural environment and commercial buildings that give employees a safe working environment, even in Covid-times. We’ve won awards for our projects and our people, and as the practice continues to grow, we’re looking forward to celebrating our team, designs, exciting new projects.”

As a subsidiary of SCAPE, Lungfish work on public sector and beyond the public sector projects procured through SCAPE’s frameworks, as well as having the freedom to work with independent clients across the UK.

In particular, the team have worked with our delivery partners to achieve:

Through delivering more than 80 offsite, modular projects, the practice has paved the way in utilising modern methods of construction to help solve the school places crisis. Utilising offsite and traditional construction techniques, Lungfish continue to innovate, create imaginative, colourful and sustainable designs. For example, the main hall windows for Highfields Spencer Academy, despite being completely flat to the façade, give a 3D effect from all angles, and by using the rooftop areas for play spaces at the new Castleward Spencer Academy, has allowed the school to increase its overall footprint on a tiny, constrained site.