ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN SERVICES
Commitment:
To create each home to be an authentic, distinctive place that unites your needs, lifestyle and values with the unique characteristics of the site, and to ultimately improve your daily living experience as well as your property’s value. KSA also provides value by maximizing: the efficiency of design; functionality; circulation patterns; spatial qualities; quality of light; furniture placement; energy-efficiency; form, scale, proportion, and harmony.
Pre-Design
Site Analysis: Document and consider solar orientation and access, wind patterns, views, automobile access and optimum building location.
Building Program Development: Detailed questionnaire helps to define scope and budget plus requirements for each space, style desired, lifestyle, furnishings, measurements, views, etc.
Green Building Advisor as needed: Determine goals for project, advise and design home to meet LEED, Earth Advantage, Northwest Energy Star or other standards for certification; Prepare documents and coordinate submittal.
Design
Schematic Design: Prepare concept sketches based on project requirements. Drawings will include site plan, floor plans with furnishings, renderings and elevations. Revise, refine, or re-design Schematic Design until approved. Submittal to governing architectural review committee (ARC).
3D model: Cutting-edge 3D software using BIM (Building Information Modeling) that allows virtual movement around and through a space.
Construction Documents: Prepare drawings required for construction: Site Plan, Floor Plans, Elevations, Building Sections & Details; Foundation and Framing Plans (excluding structural calculations, done by a structural engineer); construction details, lighting design and kitchen design.
Construction
Contractor Selection: Assist the Owner in the contractor selection process by providing recommendations and vetting other potential builders.
Material Selection: Making selections for all materials and finish colors for the shell of the home including windows, roofing, siding, stone, doors and trim. Interior design services also available.
Construction Administration: During the construction, make regular site visits to ensure that the general contractor is correctly interpreting the construction documents; coordinate regular meetings with owner and contractor.