We create buildings that celebrate the identity and context of a place.

Refurbishment of a Former Debenhams

Bobby's Bournemouth

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New Residential Project On Site

We are pleased to announce that our residential project Little Barn is on site!

Designing Your Dream Sustainable Home

Our approach to helping you design your dream eco-home

Pier Journal Article

Our work at Bobby's & Co and efforts to revive the high street have been featured in the latest edition of Pier Journal

RIBA South West Building of The Year Winner

Durley Chine Environmental Hub has won The RIBA South West Building of The Year 2024 Award, The RIBA Sustainability Award and Client of The Year Award!

RIBA South West Sustainability Award 2024

Durley Chine Environmental Hub wins The RIBA South West Sustainability Award 2024

Architects' Journal Online Article

Footprint’s beachside eco-hub named RIBA South West Building of Year 2024

Wood Awards 2023

Durley Chine Environmental Hub has been shortlisted for the 2023 Wood Awards!

Winning in sustainability

After an exciting evening of awards, Durley Chine Environmental Hub has won the Constructing Excellence South West award for sustainability!

Architects' Journal Online Article

Durley Chine Environmental Hub has been published online by the Architects' Journal

View through a garden to a charred timber clad modern extension to a barn conversion.

New Forest Farmhouse

A farmhouse refurbishment, barn conversion and a linking extension to a Grade II Listed house in the New Forest.

The existing grade II listed farmhouse was carefully restored with traditional materials and a new contemporary and contextual extension building was added to form a delicately detailed connection to an original barn outbuilding.

a View of a black timber clad contemporary, two storey, new build house.

Royston Self Build

Designed around the concept of a traditional English garden this contemporary new build dwelling perches it’s self on top of a garden wall creating a private space to live within. Located just south of Cambridge, this self-build home, uses traditional architectural principles with a modern house design to create a spacious open plan living with emphasise on connecting to the garden.

New Residential Project On Site

We are pleased to announce that our residential project Little Barn is on site!

Designing Your Dream Sustainable Home

Our approach to helping you design your dream eco-home

Pier Journal Article

Our work at Bobby's & Co and efforts to revive the high street have been featured in the latest edition of Pier Journal

RIBA South West Building of The Year Winner

Durley Chine Environmental Hub has won The RIBA South West Building of The Year 2024 Award, The RIBA Sustainability Award and Client of The Year Award!

RIBA South West Sustainability Award 2024

Durley Chine Environmental Hub wins The RIBA South West Sustainability Award 2024

Architects' Journal Online Article

Footprint’s beachside eco-hub named RIBA South West Building of Year 2024

Wood Awards 2023

Durley Chine Environmental Hub has been shortlisted for the 2023 Wood Awards!

Royston Self Build

Designed around the concept of a traditional English garden this contemporary new build dwelling perches it’s self on top of a garden wall creating a private space to live within. Located just south of Cambridge, this self-build home, uses traditional architectural principles with a modern house design to create a spacious open plan living with emphasise on connecting to the garden.

Royston Self Build

Designed around the concept of a traditional English garden this contemporary new build dwelling perches it’s self on top of a garden wall creating a private space to live within. Located just south of Cambridge, this self-build home, uses traditional architectural principles with a modern house design to create a spacious open plan living with emphasise on connecting to the garden.

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We Are Footprint!

It’s all in our name. At Footprint Architects, we’re conscious that our work has a lasting impact on the world. The footprints we leave are sustainable, look beautiful, and a pleasure to live and work in. Less of a building, more of a legacy.

We leave no stone unturned, no angle or possibility unexamined. By being thorough and thoroughly committed to sustainable building, we’re confident our spaces will be appreciated by future generations as well as you.

Our Ethos

Our Team

Footprint Architects are an award-winning, RIBA Chartered Architectural practice based in Bournemouth. We design healthy, people-centred, genuinely sustainable buildings, spaces and places across Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire and The South.

Meet The Team

Salisbury Passive House

Located within the historic location of Salisbury, Footprint architects were appointed to design this eco-friendly home focusing on affordable passive house principles to create a long lasting sustainable family home for the future

What We Do

View through corridor to courtyard of a barn conversion farmhouse of black timber and red brick masonry

Spaces to Live

We are experts in new builds, sustainable Passivhaus developments and conservation.

buff brick school building overlooking a courtyard

Spaces to learn

We develop inspiring learning spaces. We have delivered primary, secondary, SEN & alternative provision schools.