Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Stirling Prize 2024

The project sensitively restores and converts the ruins of an old dairy farm into highly accessible holiday lets with an educational smallholding and community space.

In this project there are no special routes, ramps or handrails for wheelchair users externally. Instead the levels of pathways have been designed to create gently sloping access. Internally, there are generous turning circles, visual contrasts and switches at an accessible height. Bathrooms and kitchens have been carefully specified to avoid feeling institutional and include features such as sinks with integrated grab-handles, rise and fall worktops and ceiling hoists.

Throughout his career and personal life, Craig has helped many people with complex care needs and disabilities who rely on good quality design to make their lives more enjoyable.
Accessible design is so often an afterthought with clunky, clinical off-the-shelf products applied to projects. This project proves that it doesn’t have to be this way.

Photography by Lorenzo Zandri and Emma Lewis.