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DZP Studio is an architectural practice working across London and Essex. Twenty years of residential design and delivery, more than three hundred projects — most within an hour of the studio, a handful as far away as East Africa and China — and a practice built around answering the two questions that actually decide a project: what can be built, and whether it is worth building.
The studio
Large enough to deliver a project properly from first appraisal to handover. Small enough that the person who assessed your site is the person who details it.
Director · Architect
Leads design and planning across the practice. Twenty years of residential work in London and Essex, with particular depth in constrained urban sites and the planning strategy behind them.
RIBA Chartered Architect
ARB registered
BREEAM Accredited Professional
Managing Director
Runs the business and project delivery side of the practice. Twenty-five years in IT and project management, now applied to keeping projects on programme and clients properly informed.
Project management
Systems & delivery
Portraits: Rodney Pedroza Portraits, London.
You deal with the people who do the work. No account managers, no handovers to a junior once the contract is signed, and no project sitting in a queue behind thirty others.
Who we work with
Nine disciplines, coordinated by us, appointed as your project needs them.
No residential project is delivered by architects alone. Every scheme needs engineers, surveyors and specialists at different moments, and getting the right one at the right time is most of what keeps a project moving.
We have worked with the same group of consultants for years. They are appointed as each project needs them and coordinated by us — so you get the reach of a large practice without paying for its overhead, and one point of contact rather than nine.
Builders we have worked with for years price our schemes while the design is still moving — not just before construction starts. You learn what it will cost while the answer can still shape the design, instead of at tender, when it is too late to change anything cheaply.
For the schemes that need a breakthrough. Where a site has collected refusal after refusal, we bring in experienced planning consultants to build the case properly — policy, precedent and strategy — before anyone redesigns blindly.
How we work
We work through the RIBA Plan of Work, and we charge by stage — so you commit one phase at a time rather than to the whole project on day one.
Property Insight Report, site appraisal, measured survey and the brief. Establishing what is possible and what it is worth before design begins.
Concept design and options, then the planning application or lawful development certificate — and discharge of conditions once consent arrives.
Building regulations, construction drawings, specification, tender and contractor appointment. Principal Designer duties under CDM 2015.
Site inspections, valuations, certification and practical completion, then the health and safety file.
Credentials
Get in touch
Whether it is a first conversation or a scheme someone else has already started, we are happy to hear where you have got to.
If you would rather arrive with facts than questions, start with the Property Insight Report — the fee is credited against your project if you go on to commission us.