Our Services

Architectural design covers the whole path from a first conversation about how you want to live or work, through to a set of drawings a builder can price and build from. For most homes that is residential design; we also take on commercial projects where the brief suits us.

The work moves in stages. Concept and design development settle the layout, the spaces and how the building sits on the land. Architectural drawings then turn that design into precise, dimensioned documentation. Those drawings become the basis for the approval documentation your project needs, and for any engineering the structure requires — which in turn is what construction is built from. Getting the early stages right is what keeps the later ones straightforward.

You can start from a blank page, or from one of our existing designs and adapt it to your land, budget and family.

Before a design can be finalised, it usually needs reliable information about the land itself — its boundaries, levels and features. Where a parcel is being divided, severance-related work may also be part of the process.

We help you arrange and coordinate this work with the appropriate professionals, and make sure the information that comes back is what the design and drawings actually need. Surveying is regulated professional work, and it is carried out by suitably qualified practitioners.

Depending on where you are building and how the property connects to water and sewerage, your project may need to meet WASA requirements before it can proceed.

We assist with preparing and coordinating the submission — making sure the drawings and supporting information are in order — and help you keep track of what is still outstanding.

Some projects need engineering calculations and engineering documentation before they can be approved or built — for example where spans, loads or structural and steel work go beyond what a standard design covers.

We arrange the engineering input your project requires, working with our engineering team. We can also help if you already have drawings: they can be put forward for professional review, with a view to engineering stamping where that is appropriate.

Full construction means we take the build from the foundation through to the finishing stages. Because design, visualization and construction sit within the same studio, the people building your project have access to the people who designed it — which keeps the finished building close to what was drawn and agreed.

You do not have to hand over an entire project. Clients can engage us for specific portions of a build or for individual works, and the scope is agreed around what you actually need done.

If you already have a builder or construction team, we can provide oversight on an agreed schedule. That typically means reviewing progress, comparing the work against the drawings and specifications, and reporting coordination observations back to you — within the scope agreed at the start.

It gives you an informed second set of eyes on your project, particularly if you are not able to be on site yourself.

A clear visual record of a build is useful long after the work is done. We document construction progress with drone photography and video, scheduled site captures and time-lapse sequences.

It is available on our own construction projects and to outside builders and developers. Owners use it to follow progress from a distance, contractors and developers use it for records and reporting, and it makes strong marketing material.