Contemporary Apartments - Pentire

CSA Architects were brought on board this project by developers Legacy Properties following the success of our previous development for them. Another architect had obtained planning permission for this site, for six apartments, but CSA were asked to revise this, produce a technical design, and improve the quality of the specification. Our new designs were passed by Planning on the first attempt.

This project was beautifully simple to work on, as we already had great working relationships with the developer and the structural engineer, and were able to retain the specific members of this successful project team. The development contains six apartments – 1 one-bedroom, 3 two-bedroom and 2 three-bedroom – all with parking at the front, and a communal, landscaped garden to the rear.

With a focus on a few key elements of detailing, materials and finishes, the level of luxury was raised, enabling the developers to market the apartments accordingly. An example of this was taking a mundane series of balconies from the original design and creating instead a glass and wood structure that appears to fold and bend its way up the rear of the entire property, creating balconies on every level, finishing with a brise soleil shading canopy for the top-most level. The final lifestyle feature that we included was a surfboard store, as the property overlooks Fistral Beach.