Happier and healthier homes designed with care to increase wellbeing for all.

By focusing our designs on the lived experiences, needs, and values of residents, RCKa’s designs for new homes nurture a sense of ownership and belonging—and helps build support for new development within the wider community.

This creates sustainable developments that enhance wellbeing, foster community cohesion, and positively enrich the life and character of places—ensuring happy and thriving communities.

Selected projects

Broadfields

New social rented homes on the edge of London, this is an exemplar for the intensification of suburban housing estates.

New Homes in New Ways

The temporary housing crisis is a national scandal. We're exploring how meanwhile sites could deliver much-needed homes for people in need.

Symister Mews

Cleverly exploiting a challenging urban site to create six social-rented homes.

Filwood Broadway

Honouring heritage through a sustainable re-imagining of a high street's future—blending affordable homes with a future-proof commercial realm.

Park Road, Edmonton

This thoughtful small site housing proposal achieves an uplift of 40% compared to an extant scheme.

Chigwell Retirement Village

Nestled on a hillside within the Roding Valley, our masterplan for a new retirement community provides a model for peri-urban living.

Coppetts Road

A new generation of affordable homes in North London; transforming a redundant site into a thriving residential hub.

Camden Road Hostel

High-quality bedrooms for homeless families, alongside community spaces, a shared garden, and innovative modular construction.

Arklow Road

Turning technical constraints into opportunities: providing high-quality affordable homes.

The Russetts

Character-led later living development achieves double the density of extant approval under delegated powers

Highgate Newtown Community Centre

A vibrant new piece of Camden: placing people and community at its heart.

The Wyldewoods

Sustainable extra-care development: community wellbeing in suburbia.

Hortsley, Seaford

Joyful, active and community-based: a new standard of later living in the heart of Seaford.

23a Leyton Road

Quality retirement homes: nurturing social connections and enhancing wellbeing.

Boughton Heath

Increase spending in local area by £1.5m every year

Hortsley, Seaford

87% appreciated the design emphasis on social interaction

23a Leyton Road

Density increase of 170% against previously-consented scheme

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