Architectural Services

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TJA offer end-to-end architectural services from concept to completion:

• Measured surveys and briefing drawings

• Feasibility studies and concept design

• Planning applications for challenging sites

• Working with Listed buildings and Conservation Areas

• Visualisation for fundraising and marketing

• Coordinating with engineers, builders, planning officers, etc

• Drawings and schedules for pricing

• Project management

• Administration of contract between client and builder

• Interior design

• Maintenance and conservation design

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To suit different needs the work can cover a range of requirements or be trimmed to a lite programme.

 

Sustainability

 

Whether adapting old housing stock to modern standards or building anew, TJA promote a fabric-first approach by maximising the performance of the building envelope before investing in new MEP equipment such as solar panels. This is about improving air-tightness, heat-loss and moisture management in buildings through strategies such as upgrading insulation, intelligent use of thermal mass, managing solar-gain and improving ventilation. Our design process follows a whole-house approach, ensuring all elements of the building envelope work together to reduce energy consumption and carbon impact, improve the health and comfort of occupants and ensure that the building is resilient and well-adapted to our changing climate. ​

 

Heritage

 

We are custodians of our built past and reciprocally the built past must also be custodian of our present. TJA recognise that maintaining this relationship requires care and consideration. Our design approach towards working with buildings of historic significance is underpinned by research. This is about understanding the building's past, carrying out careful analysis of the existing and designing innovatively for the future. The result should be a celebration of both old and new, where heritage is not only preserved but given lasting relevance.

 

The Home 

 

TJA began with projects for people adapting to new ways of working and being at home in 2020. The architecture of domestic life remains the focus of the practice, working across a range of budgets and typologies - room, flat, maisonette, townhouse, summerhouse, garden, campus and even a Dutch barge. Home means different things to different people and that’s what interests TJA.

 

The process of creating or adapting your home should be exciting and rewarding. However, people can easily become alienated from this process by the officious language of architects, planners and builders. TJA believe architects should instead be empowering people to shape their built environment, using drawings as a collaborative tool with which constraints and opportunities can be explored and understood - from start to finish - diagram to detail. Good design matters, especially where we live. After all, home is where we begin.​​​

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The Team

 

TJA welcomed Rebecca Liebermann and Sam Welham to the team in 2024. Tommy, Rebecca and Sam’s prior experience combines as three decades in which they each worked across a range of ambitious cultural projects on challenging and often historic sites. This is an unusual level of experience for a small practice and as a small team TJA can be agile with their time and keep fees competitive. 

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