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Architecture & Design

Concept through permit set, with printed scale models

3: capabilities
5: stages
4: deliverables

Overview

Architecture & Design is where a building is decided rather than drawn. Most of what determines whether a project is pleasant to live in, affordable to build and possible to permit is settled in the first few weeks, long before anyone is producing pretty elevations.

The work runs from a site study through concept, design development and a permit-ready set. Review happens in short weekly loops rather than as one long reveal at the end, because a client who sees the design every week can redirect it cheaply, and a client who sees it once at the end can only accept or reject it.

What makes this division unusual is what sits beside the drawings: a printed scale model, made in the same workshop. Clients read a model in seconds and a section drawing in twenty minutes, and objections that would have surfaced during construction surface instead across a table.

What it does

Three things this division does

Design development

Site studies, plans, sections and renders, reviewed in short weekly loops rather than one long reveal at the end.

Who it is for

Who commissions this

Private clients building or extending a home

Developers working on light commercial and mixed-use schemes

Institutions needing a permit set a reviewer will accept

Contractors who need drawings they can actually build from

How work moves

From brief to delivery,
in five stages

01
Site study
Where it starts
02
Concept
Stage 2
03
Design development
Stage 3
04
Permit set
Stage 4
05
Model
Where it ends

What you receive

At the end of the job

The drawing setPlans, sections, elevations and details at the resolution the stage calls for, issued as PDF and native file.
A permit application packageAssembled to what the reviewing authority asks for, so the submission is not returned for form reasons.
The printed scale modelTypically 1:100 or 1:50, printed in the workshop from the same model the drawings come from.
Renders and visualisationsEnough images to explain the scheme to someone who does not read drawings.

The practical detail

In numbers

8 to 16 weeks: Typical duration
Weekly: Review cadence
1:200 to 1:50: Model scale
PDF, DWG, IFC: Deliverable format
Included, by stage: Site visits
Consultation call: Engagement start

Questions

Asked before commissioning

Answered here, so the first call can start further along.

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We prepare the set to what the reviewing authority asks for and support the submission, including responses to reviewer comments. Whose name goes on the application depends on the jurisdiction, and that gets settled at the start rather than discovered at the end.

Yes, and it is common. If the existing set is incomplete or the building was never documented, 3D Scanning captures the as-built condition first and this division works from that.

It is quoted as part of the package rather than sold back afterwards. The model comes off the same geometry as the drawings, so producing it is a print rather than a second design exercise.

Revisions are expected on any real project. What matters is that they are issued as a numbered revision against the original set, so the contractor is never guessing which drawing is current.

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