Projects
- Architecture
- Civic
- Community engagement
- Community-led housing
- Research
- Retrofit
- Sustainable design
- Urban design

Blackbird Leys Community Centre Community Engagement
Transition by Design are appointed as the community engagement consultants for the new Blackbird Leys Community Centre. For the past…
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Cambridge Retrofit Strategy
About the Project Retrofitting homes at scale is one of the most pressing challenges in the built environment today. It’s…
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South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse Joint Local Plan: Net Zero Carbon Study
Transition by Design, in collaboration with Bioregional, Edgars, and Currie & Brown, has developed a pioneering evidence base and policy…
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Platform Housing Group Retrofit Strategy
At Transition by Design, we’ve been working alongside Bioregional and Currie & Brown to develop a comprehensive retrofit strategy for…
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Oxford Covered Market Redevelopment
In 2020 we were commissioned to prepare and agree a public engagement plan and hold a series of public engagement…
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Meanwhile in Oxfordshire
In 2020, we became a project partner on the Meanwhile in Oxfordshire programme. A grant funded project led by Makespace…
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Hutchcomb Road
Transition by Design demonstrates a model for turning houses in the UK into carbon positive homes fit for a sustainable…
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Dillys Cottage
Dilly’s Cottage was a deep ecological retrofit and extension to a home within a conservation area. Due to the stone…
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Oxford Cohousing
We’re designing Oxford’s first cohousing scheme, in the heart of the city, with the people who will live there.
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Homemaker Oxford
We're exploring creative and community-led solutions to build high-quality bridging accommodation for people in Oxford without a home.
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Makespace Oxford
We're transforming empty and underused space in Oxford into hubs for co-operatives, social enterprise and community organisations.
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Thame CLT
We're supporting residents of Thame to build their own Community-led housing.
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Open House
We transformed an empty shop into an urban room to keep the door open for conversations on housing.
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Floyds Row
We co-designed Oxford's newest homelessness accommodation with the people who would sleep there
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The Paper Mill
We're finding better ways to do housing in one of the UK's least affordable cities.
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Manor Farm
We added a contemporary ecological extension to a listed Georgian building, harmonising natural materials and low energy design.
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