.ıncremental is an architecture and urbanism cooperative.
We craft buildings and places with care.
Our projects include adapting existing buildings, low energy homes, temporary urban spaces, and co-designed visions. We design for people, for place, and for the planet.
We drive clear roadmaps, bold creativity, and fast-tracked change powered by innovative, engaging and collaborative delivery processes.
Six main agendas influence our work:
Upgrading old buildings with care. We work with community and home owners to transform existing buildings - making them warmer, more energy efficient, and better suited to today’s needs. Whether its a home, a hall, or a heritage space, we balance material improvements, energy performance, and impact.
Related services:
Existing building analysis ● Feasibility Studies ● Retrofit and Reuse Projects ● Energy efficiency & comfort improvements ● Historic Building Reuse ● PAS 2035 Residential Retrofit Programmes
We see our role as co-authors of the places we create, and we believe better places are shaped by the people who are connected to them. We want to create places that reflect the personalities and values of the people who will use them. We start by asking questions, playing games and testing scenarios. We design together: informed by the ideas and ambitions everyone brings to the project. Co-design allows us to transform traditional consultation into real collaboration, where everyone plays a role in shaping the outcome.
Related services:
Co-design & participatory planning ● Community visioning ● Supporting community ownership ● Community-led housing design
We are experts in low energy design (Passivhaus standards), natural materials, and energy use improvements to existing buildings. The building sector is responsible for almost 40% of carbon emissions globally and must be lowered to respect the planetary boundaries. We consider whole life carbon alongside material efficiency to strike a balance between environmental goals and material usage.
Related services:
Low-energy and passive design ● Natural materials, reuse, and circular economics ● Modular and local construction ● Passivhaus & PAS 2035 ● Life Cycle Assessment
We specialise in activating underused spaces through temporary, meanwhile uses, and infill development. These projects test changes before making permanent decisions, and encourage more active, enjoyable, and thriving places. Our aim is to spark change quickly and effectively, transforming spaces into places that support current local needs and aspirations.
Related services:
Temporary and meanwhile projects ● Complex infill sites ● Volunteer construction teams ● Minimum viability assessments ● Test ideas and measure their impact
We are urbanists and bring our skills of assessing, designing, and curating places to the strategies we co-create. We are specialists in Incremental Urbanism - an approach to urban design that favours practical, impact focussed strategic actions and flexible mission led visions over rigid master plans. This apporach ensures that strategies stay relevent, address broader, long-term goals, while always responding to immediate needs.
Related services:
Incremental Urbanism Visions ● Strategic visions ● Research ● Community and neighbourhood strategies ● Mission planning ● Site Strategies ● Viability Assessments
Land is our most valuable resource, and we’re committed to ensuring it’s used wisely. In both urban and rural contexts, we support sustainable development that meaningfully connects housing, food systems, and land access. Our work includes land assessment services for community land trusts and community-led housing schemes, along with expertise in community land ownership, planning, and research. Using frameworks like One Planet Development, we help create ecologically balanced spaces that support local economies and long-term land stewardship.
Related services:
Map land ownership ● Facilitate land stewardship ● Rural Systems ● CLT support services ● Integrate food systems ● One Planet Development projects
“Incremental has developed original practical and deliverable solutions to challenges we face as a community and pushed us to aspire and prioritise areas we hadn’t before.”
Hannah Sloggett, Nudge Community Builders
