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Sustainable by design.

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Tailored architecture, a sustainable design-led architectural practice and development company established in 2023 by Rob Bracey a RIBA Chartered Architect and Certified Passive House Designer to be climate conscious in all aspects from architectural design, project delivery, construction, and business operations.

We enjoy working with climate conscious individual clients and land owners to design and deliver low-energy, high quality, healthy and desirable housing. While maintaining cost-effective and environmentally responsible solutions.

Specialising in contemporary architectural design on complex sensitive sites, re-purposing existing buildings, and redundant infrastructure.

Architecture is deeper than surface & aesthetics...

As the built environment contributes forty percent to the UK’s current carbon emissions the importance of the climate crisis should be of the greatest concern of every architect and client.

Rob believes architecture is the bedrock in society for sustainable development, occupants’ well-being, social benefit, and conservation. Architecture should respond to its environment to form the lightest touch on our planet, using the lowest possible operational and embodied energy throughout its entire life.

Now is the time to make the greatest impact in carbon reductions protecting our environment for future generations. Therefore, Rob considers architecture has evolved. No longer is architecture solely the pursuit of surfaces and aesthetics, it is a balance between technical performance, sustainability, and simple contemporary pared-back design grounded in context.

It is time to embrace building lean, building clean, retrofit, and re-purposing the built environment. All projects need to respond to these principles and the highest design standards to halt the climate crisis and build a secure future.

Our architecture & social principles...

Our principles are grounded in the urgent response to the climate crisis. Using architectural design to ensure a healthy environment and sustainable future. Each project is guided by low-energy design and Passivhaus strategies, along with the following three over arching principles;

Reduce

The architectural approach is tailored to the necessities and environmental impacts presenting thoughtful creative solutions. The most efficient environmental response is to be lean in construction and development.

Repurpose

The reuse of existing buildings, structures, and materials in their current form reduces the embodied carbon of a project.

Resourceful

Incorporating innovative low-impact construction methodologies. Using materials wisely chosen for their lower embodied carbon and less environmental impact. Using fabric first approach and deployment of green technologies as a last resort.

Rob Bracey RIBA

RIBA Chartered Architect & Certified Passive House Designer

Managing Director

“Sustainable architecture should be the bedrock of the design process. Linking the past with the present and grounding buildings within the landscape surroundings, cultural situation, and historical context. Architecture is people centric and ultimately should improve the users experience merging into the background of their everyday life.”

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Rob enjoys creating sustainable architecture.

With an interested in architecture from a very young age, and growing up during a major house renovation, Rob was enlightened to the practical side of building design along with aesthetics.

Rob is a UK-registered Chartered architect with a decade of experience within the construction and architectural design industry. Completing his professional qualifications at Cambridge University in 2018 and previously working for a Cambridgeshire architects practice, Rob’s crafted focus lies in the design of high-quality contemporary housing enriching the everyday life of the occupants.

He believes architecture is an end user-centric making process. He takes careful consideration of the detail and material choices to form a holistic approach. Rob’s architecture experience ranges from the design of contemporary house extensions, conversion of redundant buildings to houses, new single dwellings, to multi-house farmyard redevelopments.

Given the climate crisis and as an architect, Rob endeavours to do better by deploying the principles of sustainable design deep within the architectural process while encouraging other practitioners, developers, and clients to follow.

In addition to architectural practice, Rob is a great supporter of the self-build and custom-build movement. He is a leading voice on the Trustee Board of Waterbeach Community Land Trust, endeavouring to create truly affordable and community-centric home ownership.

Along with architecture Rob is a keen photographer and enjoys capturing the world at large. Focusing on the simplest natural phenomenon to the most complex of human creations. He is still an avid Lego fan, as well as a bread maker, and road cyclist.

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