Creating the Design

Working from the information collated in the Evaluation and Realising stages; we get to work through a series of workshops as we start to frame the design. These workshops can be just with you and/or with the wider team. Each project is different so it's step by step.

We hold your hand - explaining as we progress with key decisions  

As we present plans/sketches/3d modelling, we will explain and discuss the different options for the design. Advise on why we may need to have elements of the design in a certain way.

Remember, we are architects that want to deliver your wonderful new home. This stage of the design is critical to ensure we have integrated all aspects of the wider teams input - whether that be rights of light to your neighbours, the surface water management of the scheme, the fabric first approach or the ecology of the site, to name but a few. All these factors help form our designs and therefore mean; due to our diligence in this field, that our designs are able to move easily through the gears in the other stages of a project.

Design in the earlier stages is not now just about an idea; it needs to work in the detail. It is our job, at this vital stage of the process to ensure you are fully aware of what can and cannot be achieved. As once we move though this stage; whilst changes can of course occur, it will now be more complex and costly to do so. At this point we are also developing the interior architecture so that the inside and outside of the design are inextricably blended and connected to the landscape.

This stage can take 3-6 months dependent on the complexity of the project.