The Doings & How We Do It: Arranging land, water and structure into meaningful outdoor spaces.
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Process
Initial Engagement & Consultation : Fee for Services Program
Let’s meet and get to know one another, talk about your ideas and program goals. Afterwards, we’ll introduce a proposal to itemize scope and conditions. This gets us in gear, nudges the throttle and propels us forward.
Pre-Design : Discovering & Assembling Inventory
The setup and prep: collect and gather conditions, known and unknown, to develop a foundation and background for new design work. We are getting the boat on plane, with the bow down.
Design Process : Applying Big Ideas to the Page
Pencil to paper: arrange, integrate and merge; a synthesis of possibilities and options for charting the course ahead.
PCD: Program & Concept Development: Analyzing opportunity
SD: Schematic Design: Unfolding the story, arranging the forms
DD: Design Development: Tightening the lines, defining the spaces, exploration of design direction
CD: Construction Details/ Documents: The mechanics, the nuts and bolts, the ingredients and how it all comes together. Digging into the deets and getting particular about the particulars
Construction Stage : The Rubber meets the Road
Seeing it come to fruition, kicking up the dust, with an integration of teams and all parties on deck. A result of thorough planning.
[CO] Construction Observation: Project Rangers, Site Fuzz & Stewardship
Don’t treat the soil like dirt! Honoring the site, building process advocacy, tracking progress, facilitate workmanship & other findings.
Post-Construction : Filling in the blanks
Additional consulting services available: maintenance education, afterprogram assistance, as-built documentation, site review & target scheduling.