Copperfield — a low-carbon new-build family house set in its landscape at dusk

RIBA Architect — Buckinghamshire · London · Oxford

Houses worthyof the landscape.

Sustainable, low-carbon homesNew-build · Conversion · Renovation
Selected work

The practice

A home is the most personal thing an architect can build — so it should hold the light, and the years.

Daylight falling across a timber-lined interior

Private houses and quiet conversions across Buckinghamshire, London and Oxfordshire — low-carbon, light-filled, built to last.

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Selected work

From first sketch to handover.

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01 / New-build dwelling — Kent

Copperfield

A new-build family house designed to beat its carbon target by at least half — and to hold the low evening light.

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Approach

Three convictions behind every drawing.

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Built to last

Fabric and detailing that beat today's carbon targets, quietly and for decades.

02

Drawn from the place

Orientation, material and memory lead every move — light most of all.

03

A historian's eye

Rigour in every detail, from ridge to foundation, tested first by hand.

Hand-drawn axonometric sketch of a Roman aqueduct

By hand, then by code

Every project begins with a pencil.

Hand drawing is how I think. Each idea is tested on paper — its light, its weight, its material — long before it reaches a screen.

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