Contact us to set up an initial phone call, to see if we are the right firm to help you  and to see if we are a good fit.   We then set up a Vision and Feasibility Review meeting time with you.

Vision & Feasibilty Revew

The first step starts with our Vision and Feasibility Review.  This is a  strategy designed to precisely understand your requirements and goals, and then give findings and  recommendations and a plan to move forward.    We visit your site, discuss your goals, do a project analysis for City codes and regulations, site analysis for site impacts, and then provide a final document reporting our findings.

The Vision and Feasibility Review helps us establish your projects goals, scope of work and services required.  We follow up with a fee proposal and draft contract would follow shortly for you to review.  Once we have a signed contract we would move into the six phases of the Architectural Design process outlined below

We meet with you to learn about your lifestyle, your goals and wishes for the home.  We have created detailed questionnaire that assists you to think about almost every detail of your home and it has extra space for your additional thoughts too. Once you have time to consider these questions, we meet and review your goals.  In the end, the take away is a program and project guiding principles that helps us create a sound plan and design concept for your project.  

We create two to three initial design schemes and concepts that seeks to define the general scope and conceptual design of the project.  This includes studying relationships between rooms, capturing views, passive solar design, scale and site features.  We also, review land use, height restrictions, setbacks, zoning issues, utility availability, and CCR’s – covenants, conditions & restrictions.  Once we have a design that has been approved by the client we move onto the next phase Design Development.

Moving forward with the approved design, we continue developing the concept by creating a site plan, floor plans, elevations, and sections.  We create a 3 dimensional model of the project that we can spin around and zoom in to help the client visualize spaces.  Professional renderings can help with exterior and interior selections for the major spaces in the home.  Once we received the final design approval from the client we forward into the construction document phase.  

 This is the time it takes us, our engineer team, and other consultants to do final drawings, notes, technical specifications and details.  These construction documents are necessary for bidding, construction and permit applications.  This is when the blue prints are completed and handed off to the general contractor for construction.

We can assist with the general contractor selection process and help review submitted bids, provide analysis, and help you compare the cost figures you receive from bidders.  This will ensure that the general contractor is reading the plans correctly and providing accurate bids for your project.

We do site visits during construction to observe progress of the project to ensure that the design and specifications per the contract are being executed to the high level of quality you expect.  We meet with the general contractor to ensure a good working relationship, so when issues arise, we become a trusted advisor not an advisory.  If we see problems early during the construction we can collaborate with the team to help resolve challenges.