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Richmond Pop up Skate Park
A cosy room with large windows, folded quilts and pillows on a sustainable spruce bench, a coat on a hook, mugs and glasses on a white table, and a vase with dried leaves. Warm, natural light fills the space.

London Centre for Book Arts Update
A modern office meeting room with glass and sustainable birch wood walls, a large plant in front, and several chairs and tables inside. Natural light fills the space through windows and glass panels.

Solivus Office Fitout
A modern office corridor with birch plywood walls and ceiling pipes leads to a well-lit communal area. Two people are visible in the background, one walking and one standing near bookshelves and hanging lights.

Sustainable Workspaces 5th Floor
A cosy dining nook with birch wooden walls, a wooden table and chairs, bench seating under a window with a potted plant, wall lamps, and a built-in bookcase to the left. Natural light fills the sustainable space.

Meadow Road extension, old meets new

Billingford House
A small, modular corrugated metal tiny house on wheels with a glass door and a single window, parked on grass under a clear blue sky. A vehicle and trees are in the background.

New Zealand Cabin, half the world away…
Photograph of a U-Build Tiny House Self Build

Recabin Project
Photograph of Gingerbread City 2024 on U-Build modular plinth boxes

Gingerbread City Build

Young V&A – Learn to Build
U-Build can be used for bespoke projects. This is a close up exterior photograph of a garden room in an East London garden

Manbey Pod
A corridor with timber construction features wooden walls and doors, each with frosted or reeded glass panels. The minimalist interior showcases natural timber, visible grain patterns, and a sustainable, unfinished look.

Coworking Interior Fitout – South London
A person assembling or inspecting a large modular wooden box with several rectangular cut-outs in a warehouse filled with stacked cardboard boxes and shelves.

Digital Nomads
U-Build Garden Studio in London

Leyton Garden Studio
Peaceful Structures for Protest Exhibition photograph by Tom Ravenscroft

V&A Barricade & Beacon
A small birch timber construction garden office with a black door and horizontal window sits on a stone patio. An outdoor metal table and two chairs are nearby, surrounded by plants and trees in this sustainable back garden setting.

East London Studio
Three people sit around a table in a library or study room with birch bookshelves, orange chairs, and natural light streaming in. A wooden door and a poster are visible in the modular space’s bright foreground.

Youth Employment Hub
A person walks past a modular wooden wall with geometric cut-outs and a mounted sign containing text. The setting appears to be a modern gallery or exhibition space with clean lines and neutral colours.

Exhibition at RIBA, London
A group of people interact with a large, modular birch structure in a spacious, modern room with high ceilings, wooden floors, and large windows letting in natural light.

RIBA Opening Up Architecture
Workers are assembling a white modular structure using ladders in a park with green grass. Nearby stands a large stone arch monument, surrounded by trees under a partly cloudy sky.

Boundless Boxes
A cosy, well-lit bookshop with sustainable birch wooden shelves full of books and magazines, tables displaying colourful books, and two people talking at the counter in the background under a wall clock.

London Centre for Book Arts

Olive: Unplugged Cabins
A person in a checked shirt interacts with a stack of plywood boxes with circular holes, possibly building or organising them in an indoor timber construction setting.

Boundless Boxes Workshops

Project Malachi: Salvation Army
A group of sixteen young people pose indoors on and around a large modular wooden structure with circular cut-outs, smiling and looking at the camera in a well-lit room crafted from sustainable spruce.

RIBA Youth Forum Workshop
A group of students in school uniforms pose by large, colourful painted letters spelling “HOPE” in an art-filled classroom, celebrating sustainability through creative reuse of materials. Some students stand, while others sit or kneel on the floor.

‘Climate Emergency!’ at Arts Depot
A woman wearing headphones stands among potted plants and modular wooden blocks indoors, appearing focused on her surroundings. A man in the background also wears headphones, both engaged in the immersive environment.

Museum of the Home: PACHA Installation
A group of large, light plywood boxes is stacked in an abstract arrangement on a rooftop, with orange smoke billowing behind them and buildings visible in the background under a clear sky.

Vyner Zine

Kinrise: Coworking space
A colourful shopfront with large, vibrant flower murals on the wall and glass doors labelled Jelly and making space for art. People walk by in a bright indoor corridor with polished floors and modular, sustainable design elements.

Jelly: Making Space for Art
A cosy back garden features a spruce wooden wall with a large circular window, potted plants, and hanging paper lanterns in orange stripes and blue polka dots. Two people are visible through the window.

Bloc Pod
A cosy, modern tiny house interior with light wood walls made from sustainably sourced materials, a compact kitchen, and a bed next to a large window overlooking a green field. Natural light fills the space, creating a warm, inviting atmosphere.

Basil and Gruff: Unplugged Cabins
An elderly man and woman sit outside a wooden house, separated by a small table. The woman holds a dog on a lead. Both relax under the shade of spruce trees on a sunny day.

Nest House
External shot of the U-Build Box House in Graven Hill Bicester

Box House: As seen on Grand Designs
A modern, box-shaped tiny house with a large circular window, smaller square windows, and a geometric front door glows warmly at dusk. A vintage motorbike is parked outside, framed by leafless trees and sustainably sourced materials.

Name Name Pod
A person walks down a modern corridor with spruce lockers and plants on the right, white walls, modular design elements, and exposed ceiling pipes, heading towards a green exit sign at the end.

Sustainable Workspaces CIC
A person in a white hoodie sits at a desk in a cosy music studio with birch guitars and recording equipment, surrounded by warm plywood and timber construction, facing multiple monitors and a keyboard.

Sam’s Recording Studio
A bespoke built bedroom with wooden walls, large windows and skylight

Mill Lane Extension

Tiny House
A small spruce garden shed with a chevron-patterned exterior sits among lush greenery, flowering plants, and trees, overlooking rolling fields under a partly cloudy sky.

BG Renewables
A modern, large wooden exhibition stand crafted from spruce with geometric patterns, signage reading U-Build, and display screens, set up in a spacious, well-lit event hall with other stands visible in the background.

Live-Build ‘Box House’ at Grand Designs Live
U-Build can be used for community projects - This is a picture of one of our U-Build facilitators training a team

East Street Arts – 34 Boar Lane
A stage performance takes place in a dimly lit church, where three actors stand near spruce-decorated modular boxes and a pianist plays. An audience watches as warm light streams in from the tall windows above.

Barefoot Opera – Stage Design
U-Build can be used for internal living pods. This is a photo of the SHED project with Lowe Guardians

The SHED Project
An orange tabby cat walks across a black-and-white striped cushioned bench with green wooden sides and drawers, crafted from sustainably sourced materials, set against a matching green wall.

Vishnia’s Sofa
This is an interior kitchen photograph of Box House. It is made of U-Build in collaboration with Studio Bark and has been featured on the Grand Designs TV show.

Storage, Furniture and Other Uses
Four upcycled wooden crates filled with vinyl records are displayed on the floor in front of large black and brown speakers. The crates are arranged in a staggered formation on a carpeted surface.

Audio Gold Vinyl Storage

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