DESIGN PROCESS
We approach each brief by focusing on first principles – ensuring there is a responsible balance between the desires of our client, and how our interventions will affect the site on a human micro and macro scale.
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PROCESS
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“Options yield solutions” – we analyse various possible solutions from the outset – carrying our clients along and tabling various alternatives for consideration. This bouquet extends to the spatial configuration of the building through to the materials and components that constitute it.
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“Green is good” – We develop designs that: carefully minimise the use of energy; encourage the use of local material to reduce the buildings carbon footprint; and promote rainwater and solar energy harvesting.
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“A conference of professionals” – The entire practice attends weekly project reviews which look into all aspects of the design, project management, documentation development and contract administration. This approach ensures the entire firm: contributes towards the critique and refinement of a design, and carefully monitors the progress of each job during it’s construction.
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“Get them in early” – We believe a thoroughly resolved design results not only in time and money being saved, but also an obviously better put together building. This is why whilst we’re thinking about the aesthetics and space-planning of a project, our specialists are developing the structural and services solutions concurrently.
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STRATEGIC THINKING
“More than just a pretty façde” – Were not just building designers. Our clients value our strategic thinking – our willingness to advise on the real feasibility of a project after numbers, business strategy, a brief and current trends have been analysed.
We work with ambitious developers who are developing large communities rather than individual buildings. We work alongside these developers, providing master planning solutions which create a vision of what these communities might be.
Our unprejudiced response briefs have been known to talk ourselves out of projects. Sometimes, our client’s developments ideas don’t work, and based on our understanding of local markets and social trends, we let them know.