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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 decide a project: what can be built, and whether it is worth building.

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The studio

A small team, deliberately.

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.

Dandi Passerini, RIBA Chartered Architect

Dandi Passerini

Director · Architect

Leads design and planning across the practice. Chartered in 2013; twenty years of residential work in London and Essex, with particular depth in constrained urban sites and the planning strategy behind them. Before DZP Studio she worked in the teams at Heatherwick Studio, Grimshaw and AECOM. A BREEAM Advisory Professional for both design and site: see low-energy design and BREEAM.

RIBA Chartered Architect
ARB registered
BREEAM Advisory Professional (Design & Site)

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Salvatore Passerini, Managing Director

Salvatore Passerini

Managing Director

Runs the business and operations of the practice. Twenty-five years in IT and project management, now applied to keeping projects on schedule, optimising processes, and implementing efficiency.

MSc, MBA
Project management
Systems & delivery

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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

A wider team, on every project.

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.

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Trusted builders

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.

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Planning consultants

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.

Structural engineersCalculations & details
Party wall surveyorsAwards & notices
Quantity surveyorsCost planning
Energy assessorsSAP, EPC, Part L
Approved inspectorsBuilding control
Measured survey teamsPoint cloud & topographical
Arboriculturists & ecologistsWhere designations apply

How we work

One practice, start to finish.

Dandi Passerini in a hard hat on a construction site
On site. The architect who drew it is the one who inspects it, values the work and signs the certificates.

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.

0–1

Appraisal & brief

Property Insight Report, site appraisal, measured survey and the brief. Establishing what is possible and what it is worth before design begins.

2–3

Design & planning

Concept design and options, then the planning application or lawful development certificate, and discharge of conditions once consent arrives.

4–5

Technical & construction

Building regulations, construction drawings, specification, tender and contractor appointment. Principal Designer duties under CDM 2015.

6–7

Handover & in use

Site inspections, valuations, certification and practical completion, then the health and safety file.

Credentials

What stands behind the drawings.

20+
Years
300+
Projects
0–7
RIBA stages
9
Consultant disciplines
  1. 01ARB registered. The title "architect" is protected under the Architects Act 1997. Our director is on the register, you can check it.
  2. 02RIBA chartered. Bound by the RIBA Code of Professional Conduct.
  3. 03BREEAM Advisory Professional. Sustainability and energy performance assessed properly, not assumed.
  4. 04Principal Designer. Formally appointable under CDM 2015.
  5. 05Professional indemnity insurance held. Cover details available on request.
  6. 06Written complaints procedure. Because you should know how it works before you need it.

Get in touch

Tell us about the project.

Whether it is a first conversation or a scheme someone else has already started, we are happy to hear where you have got to.

Want the facts first? Start with the Property Insight Report. It comes with a free 30-minute call. If you then hire us as your architect for the project, the report fee comes off our fee.

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