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pedr williams
Architect/Director
BSc(Hons) Arch'Post'Grad'Dip' ARB RIBA
In 1994 Pedr qualified as a Chartered Architect, prior to studying he initially worked as an architectural technician and site work from building roads to buildings, gaining hands on experience.
After studying in London, Pedr working for over 20 years for established practices gaining experience, initially on commercial, city offices and aviation projects, preferring to specialise on one off high end houses, restoration, refurbishment and new build (eco Homes), including hospitality and Leisure.
Commercial work included City banks, offices, Government HQ's & offices, to refurbishment of listed buildings, then working on chain and high end hotels, along with various leisure facilities, gyms to health clubs. Residential high end projects, in 2017 Pedr was contracted to work on London's first super mansion, a £300 million plus property.
In recent years whilst working in London, Pedr always commuted to his family home in Wales, caring for his elderly parents. As an active athlete all his life, coached as a middle distance runner and triathlete, a multiple ironman, distance and adventure racer, competing in the UK and around the world. In early 2020 without no warning he became seriously ill, spending 12 months in hospital suffering two nearly death events. In 2022 having also lost both his parents and without work, found himself on the road to recovery, he bet his surgeon, he would enter an ironman again, and is working at it. His time in hospital and during recovery, Pedr pondered his career and decided to compete the life long goal, to be independent and run the chartered practice.
As stated above in practice, wdpk architects initially setup a practice in 1996, providing advice and drawings for small projects, adding to Pedr diversity of architectural skills, whilst gaining experience. Seeing the practices he'd worked for, as a vehicle to work on projects, close to his heart, and gain experience, work involving design, detailing, project management, to developing sustainable dwellings, it's now the goal of building a successful practice.
Initially formed in 1996, from work on numerous small residential projects, over time and working in London on commercial and aviation projects, one specialised in high end residential, hospitality and leisure. With an artistic ability, restoration work followed, which over time he has specialised in, working with some major crafts people.
Initial experience started with small extensions, refurbishment, new house builds and industrial building around the UK. Post qualification, work lead to rural and London residential refurbishments, from £2 million to over £300 million properties, and experiences in the Hospitality and leisure sectors in the UK and overseas. All projects either managed office based or site based.
The Gallery showcases the artistic edge, an ability born with, and developed over years, privately and utilised within architecture, reinforcing my 3D abilities. Drawing people to reproducing forgotten building, developed from maps and old photographs, all generated onto computer aided images and models to artwork, through various commissions. Building models of structures for exhibitions, continuing carpentry skills, learnt from a carpenter father, now designing and building furniture, generated initially working with his father, all from working on building extensions to models.
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Our aim is always to build creative and sustainable buildings, including integrating the existing, through cumulative and innovation, a perpetual task. It’s now more than ever, the importance to utilise the already technological advances and continued research, to building and finding new ways to building, for a better future.
“The building grows out of the landscape, as naturally as any plant. Its relationship to the site is so unique that it would be out of place elsewhere”. Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Building has an enormous impact on the environment, the construction industry being a large contributor to the impact of Co2 emissions on the atmosphere. As were all starting see the effects of climate change and its consequences, resulting from human’s development on the planet. The damage humans have done and are still unaware of what is being done, presents and will continue to widely inflict climate effects.
It’s now we need to work to rectify and challenge emerging issues, the target being to vanquish the damage, and learn from the mistakes, but such progress is and will be slow. We are now working with complete committal where possible, from inception to create sustainable buildings, appreciating cost the dominate factor, the environment must now be our first concern.
As we evolve, working to infuse minimal impact on the environment, we will want operate leading by example, practicing in a self-sufficient structure, so to reflects our principles.
We as a society appear to still backing the environmental figures, who state the planet is now at tipping point, but it's clear is a money generator industry again. The big organisations are only interested in their profits from going eco, I have stated over the years on this website, to precure action on environmental issues, the real change can only happen if we all forced participate and is continuous, this will only happen when we get to the tipping point, and where not there yet. As an active adventure racer/triathlete since 1989, I am a senior now, but still race fit; why, constant participation willing to monitor my diet, to training, this has had positive effective on me and my health, whilst watching and observing over time to the damage humans have impacted on our oceans, rivers and land, business greed has not considered the long term contamination effect, as still doesn't, money is destroying life, legislation will not stop this. In the last year, we have see the biggest legal fine on a pharmaceutical company (Pfizer), 2.3 billion, it's nothing compared to the hundreds of billions they have made, it's the same storey with all large companies. Protest was and is still futile, unless as stated above, we all change, so action was focused over the years by studying and experiencing the ecological life communities in Wales, Scotland & worldwide, and research at the Alternative Technologies bodies.
In the last few years a virus life threatening worldwide, e.g. human movement has been restricted, and it's all a lie, the legal claims on vaccines is growing, the threat of another pandemic is listed, not taken one vaccine myself, as a sovereign person, I question the the way we live as it has affected many. It's clear the climate has not had a break, and post pandemic, and I stated humans in early 2020, no one listed, but soon as the pandemic was over, what did they do, mix, and now mix more than before, do humans learn from their mistakes? and they don't like the truth. Not initially recognised, we will in time, see its evidence from adaption in restriction, highlighted on the BBC news, note electric cars, great idea, but the carbon output in the production of the battery alone, let alone the manufacture of the car is extremely high, plus, the grid can't cope with the power needed for buildings and life. Take note, now the USA is already restricting power to electric cars, do humans learn, no, the date for change to electric cars is being moved back, COPS 23, another grand promise?. In greater facilitation of locally sourced materials, a regulative requirement to “Code for Sustainable Homes”, having built two code 5 houses, change will be and is slow, 'you can't solve the world's problems, it's to big', a great person said once.
From point of origin, the cultivation, manufacture and transport in the use of wood, seen as the most suitable environmental material. Mass produce of this material and other natural materials, has environmental implications, not being addressed, respecting whatever humans do, has an impact.
Structing this statement, experience and research clearly projects we all are committed to being environmental, but at what cost? Honesty with ourselves, what damage are we doing to get materials to the ways we wish them to perform, as money dominates our way of life, whatever we think. If where going to make commitments, the method must also change for this better future.
Perhaps now humans will learn to greater appreciate to implementing ways of low impact living on the environment, from the manufacture and use of materials to wastage. As we are working to achieve, and will encourage our clients to adopt such principles.
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