The Cave Co-operative is a sustainable architectural practice founded by Liz Crisp and Vera Hale in 2008. At The Cave Co-operative we work within a social business model. Cave focuses on sustainable construction techniques and design solutions that bring out the full potential of a project. Because we care about you and our planet we do this while minimising environmental impact.
Cave educates and inspires through innovative and functional eco friendly buildings. Creating surroundings our clients and the wider community can enjoy. The Cave Co-operative champions eco friendly projects that involve natural building materials such as straw, cob, timber and stone. At Cave we also specialise in working with the local community, focused towards community build and ownership.
Cave educates and inspires through innovative and functional eco friendly buildings. Creating surroundings our clients and the wider community can enjoy. The Cave Co-operative champions eco friendly projects that involve natural building materials such as straw, cob, timber and stone. At Cave we also specialise in working with the local community, focused towards community build and ownership.
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The Cave Co-operative is an architectural practice specialising in sustainable architecture. We are passionate about caring for our environment and most of all, for using natural building materials in our projects. Cave brings out the full potential of your project, due to it's wealth of experience and innovative design solutions.
At The Cave Co-operative we believe passionately about the importance of sustainability. Not just in the eco friendly buildings that we design, but in the way we work with our clients, in our community and with society as a whole. Cave understands how essential it is for a building project to be economically sustainable.
Cave has worked on numerous sustainable architectural projects locally in Surrey, Greater London and London. With many projects in the boroughs of Kingston, Richmond, Barnes, Surbiton, Merton, Wandsworth, Fulham and Haringey, as well as projects slightly further afield in Oxford, Sussex, Kent and Yorkshire.
New build detached property in Kingston, Surrey. Designed to Code for Sustainable Homes level 4. This large family home creates multiple living spaces which open up onto the garden and generous bedroom accommodation to adapt over the lifetime of the family. This stunning Georgian property required a full refurbishment and extension to change it from flats back into a single dwelling.
This project is being built entirely by the client, a charity called Back2Earth and community volunteers. The design process has been an joint a process changing organically through out the process. Community consultation programme on the Putney Vale Estate.
Cave met with one of the members of the Putney Vale Residents Association and it became clear that they needed help to discover the needs and possibilities of their community and how they could maximise the use of facilities on the estate for all age groups and ethnic backgrounds.
Cave met with one of the members of the Putney Vale Residents Association and it became clear that they needed help to discover the needs and possibilities of their community and how they could maximise the use of facilities on the estate for all age groups and ethnic backgrounds.
