STUDIO CLOUD is a RIBA Chartered Practice based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
We are a collaborative practice for architectural design and research, working across disciplinary boundaries, engaging a wide range of scales and modes of practice, and navigating research-based design and practice-based research.
The studio pursues architecture as both an intellectual and a responsive practice, as well as theoretical construct. Each design is a subtle reinvention of architecture from within its own traditions and a unique response to a specific context.
We provide design services for domestic extensions, conversions, new build, Passive House design and retrofit.
We work in and around Sheffield, the Peak District National Park and across the UK.
PASSIVE HOUSE
We are delighted to share that we are now providing Passive House design services.
Passive House is an energy performance standard that provides a high level of comfort and indoor air quality and a significant reduction in space heating requirements compared to the standard practice for UK new builds.
Its focus is on building envelope, and can be applied to any building type.
Passive House applies to new-build as well as retrofit.
Retrofit
We hold Level 5 Diploma in Retrofit Coordination & Risk Assessment as Retrofit Coordinator. We provide retrofit advice services for your house / building, whether it’s aimed at shallow retrofit, medium retrofit or deep retrofit targeting Enerphit or the AECB Retrofit Standard.
Get in touch if you are interested in Passive House or retrofitting your house to bring it to a low energy house!
Jing Qiao | Director
BA(Hons) AA Dipl. ARB RIBA
Certified Passive House Designer
Retrofit Coordinator (Level 5 Diploma in Retrofit Coordination & Risk Assessment)
Jing is a registered architect who has a passion in designing and making architecture which enhances public space and domesticity.
She is interested in traditional and low-tech architecture and how to bring them back through design to the contemporary context. She has developed her interests and skills further into sustainable and low-energy architecture, as a Certified Passive House Designer and accredited Retrofit Coordinator.
She gained professional practice experience from several practices including Hawkins\Brown, where she worked on St John’s Hill, an award winning estate regeneration project next to Clapham Junction, and Crossrail Bond Street Station as the leading Architect responsible for AMEP (Architecture Mechanical Electrical & Public Health) coordination.
Jing was trained at the University of Sheffield and Architectural Association School of Architecture. She has been teaching undergraduate at Sheffield School of Architecture since 2016.
Xiang Ren | Director
BArch (Dist) MA (Dist) PhD FHEA
Xiang is an experienced architectural designer who has a passion in evidence-based design and design-led placemaking.
Our present and past collaborators:
Hedy He, Evelin Putri, Kien Pham, Yiming Zhou, Rosanna Sutcliffe, Timothy Blundell Jones, Nicholas Phillips, Guy Moulson, Natalia Hryszko, Henggang Wang, Yvonne Weng