Design Portfolio
Our design team approaches every assignment as an occasion to create not just a beautiful, functional & efficient design, but as an opportunity to BUILD it, see it through to completion…and therefore truly ratify the operational design.
- CAPTURE - Our process starts with capturing the essence of our clients’ vision – or helping them articulate what they like, want and need.
- VISUALIZATION – Using extensive 3 dimensional modeling, we create the ability to ‘see’ the design from inside – out.
- IMPLEMENT – Refining the conceptual design into construction documents, we utilize our decades of construction experience to make a project truly ‘buildable’ in terms of budget, timing & materials suitability.
- EXECUTION – We believe form & function are interdependent, not that one serves or follows the other. We also believe a building’s ‘beauty’ is not just in form but in environmental relevance and user proclivity.
Design Process Think-Design-Build
download the design-build process overview (pdf, 110KB)
Spencer House
The Richard Orms Spencer House, as photographed by Julius Shulman, on display at the Getty Museum
Whole house renovation starting Summer of 2015"