A place to start out in life and a place to stay is seen to be characteristic of great neighbourhoods according to Bruce Katz, one of our favourite commentators on urban life. We aim to provide a wide choice in housing that invites this journey through life. These include everything from micro rented apartments, to co-housing and co-living options and family houses.

To stay within the Paris goal of 1.5 degrees of warming, each person can be responsible for up to 2.3 tons of CO2 emissions - called ‘global fair shares’. This cannot be achieved by infrastructure alone; through the regeneration of places and communities we enable good behavioural choices to become cultural and sustained; all who live in our neighbourhoods can become everyday heroes - a new world of abundance and ease is possible.

We’re exploring new ways of building, new designs, forms and financing strategies as well as new models of tenure and stewardship, to house everyone well while reducing the cost of living. Our new services in shared living, mobility and energy combine to create radical affordability.

Walkable neighbourhoods, beautiful streets which enable safe and appealing journeys by foot and bike are the keys to an exponentially sustainable movement system. But when we need to go further, we provide co-mobility (CoMo) services from EV-cargo bikes (for shopping and deliveries) to car share, hire and clubs and shuttle buses.

Our places generate and support the new more productive, inclusive, creative and circular economy. We provide networks and learning, beautiful working and meeting environments and back-up services in energy, resource-management, mobility and communications infrastructure

We act to build social bridges and bonds, reduce isolation and loneliness by embracing mixed-income, mixed-tenure places and convivial, healthy communities. In addition to shared energy grids and high-quality public realm we provide storage, laundries, co-working, playrooms and shared courtyard gardens throughout our places.

The construction industry’s use of standard, energy-intensive materials is not only damaging to the climate but creates sterile places - the growth of ‘nowhere’ over ‘somewhere’. We’re pioneering the use of natural building materials from host bioregions and using our ‘Build & Design’ and ‘Raw & Craft’ methodologies to deliver affordable, high-quality, sustainable buildings.

We turn up the dial on super-greening denser urban environments, bringing them to life with roof gardens, pocket parks, sustainable urban drainage, community gardening and plentiful street trees. The resulting productive landscape is great for the vivacity, texture and colour of urban life, increasing biodiversity and supporting climate change adaptation.

One vision, many hands. Great places are the product of myriad disciplines and decisions deliberated upon with citizen groups and other stakeholders, using precedent, principle and evidence. We have adopted the process of ‘deep collaboration’, a phrase coined by Steve Jobs to describe how his teams connect intensely and creatively across disciplines to create some of the world’s best products.

We build meaningful relationships with customers - offering choice, involving them in design, providing fully customisable fit-outs, turning them into ambassadors for our product and brand. We’re growing a database of people who want to live in human-centred sustainable places, enjoying an excellent everyday quality of life, while taking action to safeguard the planet for future generations.

To innovate at speed and create transformational change requires the best collaboration the world has yet seen. Human Nature is growing a global network of leaders engaged in the pursuit of a new ‘social imagination’ - a celebration of the myriad actions that can be taken to accelerate exponential sustainability while improving quality of life for all. As part of our role in creating remarkable places we are cultivating relatable human stories that fuel this new social imagination.

We ‘weave’ places using multiple tools, processes and typologies across design, engineering and other disciplines. Our objective is always to capture and enhance the genius loci (spirit of a place) and achieve system-scale transformation in quality, well-being, inclusivity and impact. In this way, place becomes remarkable.