Ambience architecture
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Our initial meetings are great for sharing information and discussing your vision for your project. Creating a project brief is about defining what you want and how you want to live. Chances are this has been rolling around in your head for some time, but we need to get it on paper and make it real!
Sketching ideas - This stage is exciting! We begin to shape and explore what your new home will look like! Using all the information gathered in the Pre-Design stage & the Brief stage, we start to generate a couple of different design options for you. These will normally be in the form of hand sketched floor plans.
Refining the Sketches and adding more design detail.
If you have a builder in mind, they may be able to advise estimated building costs at this point. Your builder may require more detailed drawings to get a more accurate estimate. To provide more details drawings to your builder, the plans and documents will need to be more advanced.
This stage combines all the information about the project into a detailed set of drawings and specifications that will be used by Council for your Building Consent Application and by your builder for construction.
A Structural Engineer is usually a must on most projects. The extent of engineering is dependent on your site and the final design of your home, we will give advice on this during the design stages. The Engineer is to prepare Structural Engineering Designs as required to suit the Developed Design.
Engineering design and details are usually prepared by the Structural Engineer as an independent set of documentation, alternatively, the Engineer can provide hand drawn sketches of details to us and we can convert these to computer drawn details and incorporate them within our working drawing set.
All the information is compiled - drawings, specifications, reports and forms. We get it all together and submit the application to Council.
Finally, after all the design discussions, planning and Council dealings, you are now ready to turn your dream home into a reality!
Our initial meetings are great for sharing information and discussing your vision for your project. Creating a project brief is about defining what you want and how you want to live. Chances are this has been rolling around in your head for some time, but we need to get it on paper and make it real!
Sketching ideas - This stage is exciting! We begin to shape and explore what your new home will look like! Using all the information gathered in the Pre-Design stage & the Brief stage, we start to generate a couple of different design options for you. These will normally be in the form of hand sketched floor plans.
Refining the Sketches and adding more design detail.
If you have a builder in mind, they may be able to advise estimated building costs at this point. Your builder may require more detailed drawings to get a more accurate estimate. To provide more details drawings to your builder, the plans and documents will need to be more advanced.
This stage combines all the information about the project into a detailed set of drawings and specifications that will be used by Council for your Building Consent Application and by your builder for construction.
A Structural Engineer is usually a must on most projects. The extent of engineering is dependent on your site and the final design of your home, we will give advice on this during the design stages. The Engineer is to prepare Structural Engineering Designs as required to suit the Developed Design.
Engineering design and details are usually prepared by the Structural Engineer as an independent set of documentation, alternatively, the Engineer can provide hand drawn sketches of details to us and we can convert these to computer drawn details and incorporate them within our working drawing set.
All the information is compiled - drawings, specifications, reports and forms. We get it all together and submit the application to Council.
Finally, after all the design discussions, planning and Council dealings, you are now ready to turn your dream home into a reality!
Design should be a collaborative and a flexible process - that’s what makes it so exciting and memorable, we create it together around your unique requirements.
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