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A-Zero Architects is a RIBA chartered architectural design practice with an expertise in sustainable design.

Founded in 2010, we aim to create projects which are both responsive and responsible. By responsive we mean approaching each design exercise as a collaborative effort, one that demands an intimate understanding of both Client and Brief before the design process can begin. By responsible, we mean designing and procuring our buildings in a way which does not have an adverse impact on the environment. Our projects range from ultra-low-energy residential new build and refurbishment, mixed-use developments, and community centres. We feel performance should be fundamental to design – not an afterthought. When sun shines in a window, where we procure our materials from, how much energy our buildings consume – these are the things which drive our architecture. We guide projects through from feasibility to completion, from conceptual design solutions, exceptional technical detailing to ensure that our buildings perform to their design standards, require little maintenance and are a pleasure to use.

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Many sites in London are the consequence of the city’s turbulent history of development, destruction and redevelopment – a pattern of boom, bust, and bomb. That was the case for …

Dog Tooth House_2019

House with spiral staircase 2020

A-Zero Architects were part of the international competition winning team, led by renowned Irish architects O’Donnell + Tuomey to redesign the Central European University campus in Budapest, Hungary. The design …

CEU Budapest_ 2011 – 2016

Planning approval has been granted for our design for a new residential development in Guildford, UK. The proposal works with this site topography, a steep ridge connecting Guildford Cathedral with …

Living on a Ridge 2021

We recently completed a small extension in North London clad in larch with the SiOO:X treatment all supplied by @russwooduk. Good work by Blero Construction. Photos by @adamscottimages

Larch extension_2019

We are currently on site with an exciting new-build house in Oxfordshire. the house is built within an old quarry, with open country-side to one side and forest to the …

Quarry House_on-going

When an old farm was subdivided and sold individual plots, the walls of an old cow shed and dairy became the starting point for a new dwelling for a young …

Timber frame house_ 2014

A very long and narrow former chicken shed was transformed into a new dwelling for a family. Planning limitations prevented the building from increasing in size, so it was decided …

Ticking truss barn_2018

Within a stone’s throw of the Thames, this project comprises the full refurbishment and extension of a19th Century cottage. Working on a very compact site, the project creates a series …

Riverside cottage_2020

We are on site with a scheme of six residential units with ground floor commercial is in Rotherhithe, London. The site has a prominent location in front of a park, …

By the Quays in Rotherhithe_on-going

This new build house, adjacent to the Thames, is currently on site. The new house will replace an existing dwelling that has long since been dwarfed by the development either …

Thames House_ on-going

Just before the lockdown, we completed and photographed two new buid houses in Bermondsey. Built on an incredibly skinny site with limited opportunities for outward facing windows, we found other …

Bermondsey Thin Houses 2020

This new-build mixed use building in the heart of the regeneration zone in Elephant & Castle, London comprises a ground floor nursery, and three triplex townhouses above. The project is …

Elephant & Castle development_2017

We are delighted to have been shortlisted for the New London Architecture’s ‘New Ideas for Housing international ideas competition’ Our proposal ‘The High Street Living Project’ looks at ways in which …

High Street Living Project_2015

The brief of the project was to convert the basement of an existing house into a new kitchen and bicycle workshop with new access to the garden. We looked at …

High Kitchen_2016

Very often, it makes much more sense not to extend a house, but instead make better use of the space that is already there. This project follows this approach, reconfiguring …

Extending without an extension_ 2014

This house renovation in West London extended and refurbished an existing property. One of the concerns was retaining the visual connection through the house whilst still respecting the original room …

Glazed Fissure House_2018

The ‘middle room problem’ is an issue we often face in residential reconfigurations and extensions. How can you make a space bigger without making another space more enclosed and darker? …

Middle room project_2017

A-ZERO worked with Irish architects O’Donnell + Tuomey on a proposal for a new mixed use development North of the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland. Comprising a phased development of residential …

Mixed use development, Dublin_2015

Two houses, one old and one new. The new house, built on an awkward angular end-of-terrace plot, draws reference to the old house. The original sash windows are reinterpreted with …

Two houses in Wandsworth_2017

House in Alexandra Park_2017

Responsive Simplexities_ 2011

St. John’s Wood House_2016

This project completely reconfigured a penthouse apartment according to a simple client request – that the new layout should have no corners or handles. To meet this request, the layout …

No handles no corners_ 2013

The brief for this house was to reconfigure and extend the existing house, within the maximum permitted development rights uneer planning pegislation at that time. This allowed us to construct …

Purple House_ 2014

An old Doctors surgery was converted and extended as a Lifetime Homes compliant dwelling. Situated in possibly the most fabulous garden of a Grade II listed house in Central London, …

Zinc house in the garden_2015

Aylesbury Vale Design Awards_2014

Working with designer Ingrid Hu and sound artist Andy Pink, A-Zero Architects was selected as one of five winning submissions for installations in the proposed tidal lagoon in Swansea, Wales. …

Swansea Tidal Lagoon water mist_2014

This competition proposal for the Hungarian House of Music, located in the heart of Budapest, was developed in conjunction with Belgian architects SHSH and Hungarian architects Teampannon The museum is …

House of Hungarian Music_2014

The brief for the competition required proposals for the development of a brown field site in Salford, UK, with an emphasis on developing urban strategies which were derived from environmental …

Salford Housing 4 Life_ 2010

This competition proposal for new housing in the Hebrides, Scotland makes use of existing abandoned or self-build structures in the landscape. These structures are positioned relative to the strong prevailing …

Hebrides home_ 2013

A-ZERO was shortlisted for competition to design a new city centre for Kiruna, north Sweden, together with Swedish Architects Tham & Videgård Arkitekter and London based Territorial Agency. Kiruna is a …

Kiruna Masterplan_ 2013

This is an infill project, in which a new ground floor living space was created. The ‘side extension’ typology is ubiquitous throughout London’s Victorian housing stock, but whilst it results …

Contemporary side extension_2016

The existing house had a typical problem of a Victorian terraced house for today’s lifestyle – what used to be store room and toilet often become a dark and dingy …

Brick wrap-around_ 2013

The Grade II listed Battleship Building, originally designed as a British Rail maintenance depot in 1968, was fitted out to accommodate an environmental consultancy and MEP firm’s London offices. The …

Battleship Building_ 2010

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