We worked closely with Clement Luk Laurencio ARB, founder of Drawing (Spatial) Fictions, to shape the philosophical and spatial narrative for a major country house expansion in West Sussex. 

Clem’s practice sits between architecture and art. A registered architect and member of the Society of Architectural Illustrators, his work has been exhibited at the Sir John Soane's Museum and recognised through the Architecture Drawing Prize. His drawings operate as speculative worlds: precise yet dreamlike, rigorous yet charged with narrative possibility.

For this project, we invited Clem to help articulate a deeper conceptual framework. Together, we explored the legacy of the Picturesque in the Sussex landscape, engaging with movement, framed views and moments of concealment and revelation across the estate. The architectural proposal was conceived not as a singular object but as a sequence of spatial episodes: a curated promenade through gardens, thresholds and interior rooms.

Clem’s interest in situationism informed our thinking about experience and encounter - how architecture can destabilise expectation, provoke curiosity and encourage imaginative occupation. His drawings became tools for testing atmospheres and spatial tensions, allowing the design to operate as a kind of architectural fiction: grounded in heritage yet open to fantasy.

The result is a proposal that engages history without nostalgia: a country house expansion shaped by narrative, landscape and the crafted artifice of the Picturesque.

For more, visit his website here.