Teamwork
Would you like your project to be a positive experience? Designing and building a project can seem daunting. Where to begin? How to fit everything together? The best projects don’t happen by accident. They result from the best collaborations: shared goals, a great team, clear communications, everyone doing their part. The process — the path to the eventual destination — determines the quality of the project, and the lasting happiness of those who inhabit it. We try our utmost to be careful listeners, clear communicators, and helpful members of the team, contributing our experience and skills to help achieve great projects.
Teamwork delivers. Conventional buildings use conventional thinking. High-performance buildings use innovative thinking. We’ve learned that good buildings are created in a spirit of discovery: owners, designers and builders collaborating to find the best solutions. Collaboration improves results and asks things of us. Team members consider problems carefully before plunging ahead. They stay open to new ideas, without force-fitting old assumptions onto new challenges. They let clear and timely feedback guide their thinking. They take pride in doing the best work they can, to help create something wonderful.
Partnership and Process. For years we've honed a cooperative and interactive design process. It encourages teamwork, letting crucial decisions benefit from pooled knowledge. It uses communication and feedback to improve performance, cost-effectiveness, and value. We offer experience, skills and creativity, but the most important thing we offer is a time-tested process. Please look at the slide show of our process below, and please visit our “F.A.Q.’s” page. Is what we do right for you? That’s for you to decide. If you think it is, we’d love to hear more from you about your goals and dreams, and see if we can help.
Questions? Please read “F.A.Q.’s” or contact us.
“You worked with me — in partnership. And the result was a far better house than could have resulted without your valuable input and expertise.”
"The design process was a great exercise in self-reflection ― what one values in the spaces around them."
"Thank you for your patience over the long haul. And beyond that, your professionalism, your integrity, your wisdom and your heart. We are most grateful.”
Listening to the client and the site
Assessing solar potential
A first exploratory sketch
Developed design
Computer generated model
Form the team early
Laying out a building on site
Energy modeling for high performance
Detailed construction drawings
Working with owners and builders
Testing & validation
Enjoying a completed project