Copperfield — a contemporary low-carbon dwelling

RIBA Architect — Buckinghamshire · London · Oxford

Houses worthyof the landscape.

The practice

A home is the most personal thing an architect can build.

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

About Karen

Selected work

From first sketch to handover.

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Approach

Three convictions behind every drawing.

01

Built to last

Fabric and detailing that beat today's carbon targets.

02

Drawn from the place

Orientation, material and memory lead every move.

03

A historian's eye

Rigour in every detail, from ridge to foundation.

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 long before it reaches a screen.

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