Why we do it {our ethos}:

1. We are passionate to give you the best value for your money

2. Bring pleasure to the process, and happiness in the end product or your home

3. Create a sustainable building with lower energy usage / running costs, and lower emissions (helping to save our planet!)

About us : Contemporary Architect’s practice in Birmingham UK specialising in Architecture, Planning and Urban Design services for New build, Extensions, Refurbishment and Conversions in Residential and Commercial sectors. Services include design, planning permission applications, building regulations and construction plans.

Call 07515 863 858 or Email Kalpesh@VibrantArchitects.co.uk to discuss your project and see how we can add value, we would love to hear from you.

We listen to you, to identify your needs and provide a tailored, site-specific solution that suits you. We provide contemporary style and functional design, for modern and traditional/period style buildings that meet your needs. How do we provide added value to give you more than expected for your budget?

1. By helping to demystify and take the stress out of the design and planning process, and providing a personal service.

2. Through a highly considered design approach: innovative, sustainable and high-value (optimum balance of quality and price for the budget) solutions that provide building users with a desirable, comfortable, energy and cost efficient building. Sustainable design and recycling is a key focus for our designs so that we can look to reduce your energy usage and heat loss, which in turn means lower bills for you and lower carbon emissions.

3. Just as important, we look at the quality of spaces and your experience in them. We ultimately place people at the heart of our designs because architecture is more than just buildings - it is emotive - and about the creation of happy, healthy spaces and places. See our ‘Home is More’ blog below.

Fundamentally, good architecture makes you feel good and enhances your quality of life and wellbeing.

As a Royal Institute of British Architects Chartered Practice, we are committed to design excellence and service delivery as well as giving you reassurance.

We listen to you and help demystify and take the stress out of the design and planning process

Full services in Architecture, Planning and Urban Design.

Our Services include:

• Listening to you to identify your needs and a project brief/strategy

• New builds, extensions, refurbishment and conversion in residential, commercial and civic sectors. 

• Pre-planning discussions with Planners and Planning Permission applications

• Feasibility studies, concept design, fully developed and technical design

• Urban Design of housing developments and infrastructure

• Building Regulations compliance and Construction Drawings

• 3D modelling, photo visualisation and detailed design drawings for clients to fully understand and engage in the design process, to achieve the optimum solution and best value

• Project Management and Tendering

Whether it's a housing development or a one-off house or extension, we provide bespoke solutions and attention to detail.  We have extensive experience in achieving planning permission, and achieving high quality buildings that you enjoy.

We have considerable experience of working with Housing Associations including BMHT, WMHG, Orbit and Walsall Housing Group, as well as with private developers, established building contractors and house builders.

We can help you increase your property value through high quality design

Projects:  Architecture.  Planning.  Urban Design.

Below is a variety of projects worked on, including in previous architecture practices in the West Midlands and London.  They comprise built projects all over the UK and include domestic house extensions and renovations in the West Midlands, a flagship Extra Care development in Wellesbourne, affordable Housing in Coventry and Wolverhampton, premium flats and mixed-use conversion in Islington, the Arsenal Masterplan in London and a Doctor's Medical Practice extension in Wales.  

We design using a 3D model to visualise the architecture and produce construction drawings.  Through a virtual building information model (BIM) you can explore your ideas and get a feel of the end product with a walk through the spaces.  Photo quality visuals of buildings and spaces are also offered. Click the projects below to see more.

Sustainable design and recycling is a key focus for our designs so that we can look to reduce your energy usage and heat loss, which in turn means lower bills for you and lower carbon emissions.

Why choose us?

• Why we do it (our ethos) - see About us section above

• Experienced in Planning permission applications and obtaining consent

• We listen to you, to identify your needs and provide a tailored, site-specific solution that suits you. We provide contemporary style and functional design for modern and traditional/period style buildings that meet your needs

• We provide added value to give you more than expected for your budget. How? See About Us section above.

• We have signed up to the RIBA 2030 Climate challenge to make buildings energy efficient, sustainable, and with reduced carbon emissions.

• We specify sustainable products and systems in your building, including recycled insulation and thermally enhanced doors; windows and rooflights, recyclable materials, lintels to openings that reduce heat loss, ventilation to avoid heat escaping, high efficiency appliances, heating, ventilation, and lighting systems

• We know what your home or property means to you and share your passion and vision

• 22 years experience in Midlands and London architecture practices. Extensive experience of working with Housing Associations such as BMHT, WMHG, Orbit and Walsall Housing Group, as well as with developers and established building contractors

• A collaborative team of built environment professional contacts, including planners, engineers, building control, party wall surveyors, suppliers and builders

• Model-based design (BIM) for innovative visualisation, and construction information

• Member of Architects Registration Board (ARB) and a Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Chartered Architect and Practice, showing design excellence and service delivery as well as giving you reassurance

Latest News and Blog

‘Home is More’ because of Covid

• During the Covid pandemic, we have all had to shift the way we live, work and think. Our homes are no longer just homes, they are now our workplace and gym, but most importantly our safe haven. We have seen a surge in homeowners requiring their homes to be adapted to include home offices, cinemas and gyms.

  With all these multi-purpose uses for our homes, it is increasingly important to maintain ‘separation’ between home life and work life, so that for example you can remain focused on either resting at home, or working at work. This separation can be done physically and mentally, for example with a dedicated office room in your house or a separate outbuilding in your garden. This enables the ‘journey to work,’ which we have to endure every day, but which is crucial in preparing us mentally for work so that we are focused.

  If we do not have this separation, it can be difficult to either get away from work in order to relax, or focus on your work. This is one of the ideas we consider when designing multi-purpose spaces, in order to enhance your experience and wellbeing at home.

  Sustainability and recycling

  We have signed up to the RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge to help meet net zero whole life carbon for new and retroffited buildings by 2030. It sets a series of targets for us to adopt to reduce energy use, embodied carbon and water use. By meeting these targets we will play our part in addressing the global crisis. See further information: Click to see link

  To start meeting the challenge, we implement measures in our design and specification of client’s buildings, such as thermally efficient building fabric with recycled insulation and thermally enhanced glazing; building orientation and glazing which optimises light and solar gain and recyclable materials. This result in more energy efficient buildings which not only reduce bills for clients, but remain within budget and reduces the impact on the environment too. We also use local suppliers and materials where possible to reduce carbon footprint. This is a considered approach which provides the client and environment with better value. We are also exploring renewable energy sources such as solar panels, heat pumps and biomass boilers.

  Free advice and consultations:

• We provide FREE ARCHITECT’S CONSULTATIONS for your projects at the Virtual Homebuilding and Renovating Show. We look forward to meeting you and discussing your projects: Click to see link

• FREE ADVICE GUIDE FOR SELF BUILD AND HOMEOWNERS: Vibrant Architects are proud to be included in Birmingham City Council and Acivico Building Control’s Custom Build guide (page 24), with advice on how to achieve your dream home. Advice includes planning, building regulations, finding a plot and designing, as well as many other items you always wanted to know: Click to see link

  Projects we have been appointed on include:

• Loft conversion to a 3 bedroom house in Erdington. The client required an extra bedroom with en-suite, space for a home office, additional storage and wardrobe space in her busy family home. This was provided in a loft conversion and by maximising the existing roof space. A Juliet balcony was also provided to take advantage of garden views.

• Rear and side extensions and interior remodel to a house in Oldbury, Sandwell. The client requires a flexible living, working and play space, as well as a new ground floor bedroom and shower room. A light airy extension and garden views is important for wellbeing. The open plan is flexible to allow uses and functions to change as the client’s family grows. The spaces in the open plan are connected with a flow that suits the family lifestyle, and with clearly defined zones so that family members can separately get on with what they are doing.

• Interior remodel, renovation and garage conversion to a 4 bedroom family home near Sutton Coldfield Town Centre. The family would like to modernize their new home to allow modern, open-plan living and interaction. A garage conversion creates a ground floor bedroom with en-suite.

• New garage in Moseley, enhanced for secure dry storage and workshop use. Sustainable design features such as recycled materials, and rooflights to provide natural light/ventilation and solar gain.

• Ground floor extension and garage conversion to a new house in Great Barr. The family would like an open plan living, cooking and dining space leading to the garden. The garage conversion will be a child’s play room and home cinema.

• Ground floor extension and remodel of a 3 bedroom family house in Great Barr. The family would like to prepare their home for retirement, with the addition of a ground floor bedroom and en-suite, as well as better connected kitchen, dining and living areas.

• Planning application for upto 6 new houses in Wallsall.

• An outbuilding to the rear garden of a family home in Edgbaston, Birmingham. The client requires a multi-purpose space that works as a quiet office space, cinema and gym. To reduce external noise and heating bills, the building fabric has been enhanced.

• Garage conversion and interior remodel to a family home in Erdington, Birmingham. The clients require the garage to be re-purposed to include home offices, utility and kitchen extension. We identified a way to achieve their needs through careful re-planning of the existing spaces, and avoid a more costly extension. This economic approach will allow the client to achieve their needs, and with the cost savings, may even be able to achieve more.

• Contemporary lounge extension to a modern family home in West Bromwich, Sandwell. The client requires part of the extension to be a garden view room, with a viewing window to form a vista to the garden’s prominent views.

• Contemporary kitchen and dining room extension to a modern 4 bedroom family home in Stourbridge. The client requires a larger open plan space that works well for family gatherings.

• Assist with discharging planning permission conditions for a new Victorian style garage, in the St. Augustines conservation area of Edgbaston, Birmingham.

• Extension and remodel of a family bungalow in Stourbridge, to meet modern living needs of the new owners.

• Modern extension and interior/exterior remodel of a period 5 bedroom family home in Sutton Coldfield. The client requires a larger home for their family with a large centralized kitchen as the heart of the home, as well as open plan living including a lounge that can be separated with a flexible folding partition. The kitchen, dining room and lounge all had to connect to the large south facing garden and the outside, achieved with a series of bi-fold doors and roof lanterns to provide an airy and uplifting sun lounge, which creates the sense of being outdoors. Larger bedrooms with en-suites and a a new master bathroom was also required. Light and natural ventilation were requirements to maximise sunlight and promote wellbeing, as well as reducing energy bills. All the spaces thread together to form a home which promotes happy healthy living, and social events and interactions.

• Contemporary kitchen, lounge and bedroom extension to a period 3 bedroom family home in Handsworth Wood, Birmingham.

See how we can add value: Expect more

We know what your home or property means to you: We share your passion and vision

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Email:   Kalpesh@VibrantArchitects.co.uk

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Reviews and Testimonials from our clients

“Overall, we are very happy with what we have ended up with, we achieved the outcome we wanted. As the overall cost for the project was explained at the start, we were happy with the final cost.  All advice was provided in a timely manner and specialist advice was all sourced with the price and quality in mind.  Options on materials were provided to show the best solutions in the budget envelope.  We would recommend Vibrant Architects, as they provided excellent advice, access to expert advisors and also ensured that we were able to get the final build into a compact plot with all the elements we needed.  They were able to provide key points of decision making and also options for our budget.” Mr and Mrs Parmar – House extension and remodel in Great Barr

“I had several constraints and requirements and lots of opinions and Kalpesh listened to me carefully and came up with an excellent design. He was very enthusiastic and communicative and considered all the issues involved to ensure a successful outcome. Thank you Kalpesh and best of luck in the future.” Stephen - Garage for workshop and storage in Moseley

“From the start we had a lot of criteria for our project, Kalpesh was informative and offered solutions that worked for our space and budget. Any changes that were needed were done efficiently and to our specifications.  Everything was straightforward and Kalpesh explained anything we had questions on.  The service, attention to detail, communication and updates was excellent.  Would definitely recommend.” Hazel - House extension and remodel in Oldbury

“We arrived at a design which conformed to budget. The finished project meets/exceeds our expectations. Timescale slippage did occur but were outside of our control ie. Covid lockdowns, and material shortages as a result. The quality is excellent.  I would; and have recommended you to others. You were with us throughout, providing detailed drawings and updates. We wish you every success for the future." Frank and Sandra - House extension in West Bromwich

“I would highly recommend Vibrant Architects as the whole process was completed in a professional and friendly manner – made more difficult with the added issues around the COVID pandemic during the process. Kalpesh goes the extra mile on all aspects – from sourcing the specialist contractors and obtaining quotations, to dealing with the minefield that can be local Building Control and Planning. Thank you Kalpesh for delivering our project on time for our ‘pandemic restricted’ family Christmas Day!” Mark & Alison Walker - House extension in Stourbridge

“I highly recommend Vibrant Architects and will definitely use them again, also I would like to especially thank Kalpesh Patel for his contribution and nice work” Mr Housaini - New shopfront in Dudley

“I would highly recommend Vibrant Architects as they deliver on their promise and good value for money” Mr Shahban - Land purchase planning application, Birmingham

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