Research | Feasibility | Programming

Purpose:

To establish a strong foundation for the project by thoroughly understanding the client’s needs, evaluating the site’s potential and defining a clear and achievable project scope.

Outcomes:

Client Brief: Consult closely with the clients to produce a guiding document that outlines the Objectives, budget, and space requirements.

Site Analysis: 

    • Access: Existing entry points and easements

    • Topography: Natural levels, slope, and grading 

    • Services: Water, Power, Sewer, and Internet

    • Vegetation: Significant trees and vegetation

Climate Analysis: 

    • Solar exposure: 

    • Current: Climate Statistics

    • Future: Climate Statistics

    • Built Implication: Psychometric Analysis

Planning Analysis:

    • Land use zoning

    • Building envelopes, height limits and Setbacks

    • Bushfire Prone Areas 

Feasibility study:

    • Site capacity and development potential

    • Alignment with client brief and budget

Preliminary Schedule:

    • Broad timeline showing key milestones, approvals

Initial Cost Estimate: 

    • Based on area rates

Sketch | Concept | Experiment

Purpose:

To translate the client brief and site analysis into conceptual design solutions. This stage explores multiple ideas and 

synthesizes them into a preferred direction.

Outcomes: 

Mood boards: 

    • Interior: Texture and Finishes

    • Exterior: Material and Form 

Diagrams and Sketches: 

    • Illustrate key design ideas

    • Spatial relationships

    • Design principles

Preliminary Sketch Plans: 

    • Site Plan: Orientation, Positioning  

    • Floor Plan: Room Layout, Adjacencies and Access

    • Elevations: height, form, and facade

3D Model and Massing:

    • Physical model illustrating the built form in context

Planning Application Strategy:

    • Outline local authority requirements for Development Application (DA)

    • Identify information required for submission and key timelines

    • Determine if pre-application meetings or consultants are needed

Updated Cost Estimate:

    • Refined Area estimate based on concept

    • Highlight risks, allowances, or cost drivers

Develop | Refine | Visualise

Purpose:

To refine the approved concept into a resolved, coordinated, design. This stage integrates key systems, and aligns 

regulatory, aesthetic, and budgetary requirements.

Outcomes:

Design Drawings:

    • Floor Plans: Show wall thicknesses, structure

    • Elevations and Sections: Massing, materiality, roof

    • Room Layouts: Showing Furnishings options

Key Joinery and Interior Concepts:

    • Preliminary joinery design

    • Conceptual internal finishes and materials palette

Systems Integration:

    • Windows:Types, Sizes and Operability

    • Structural System

    • Key services

    • Plant and equipment

3D Visualisation:

    • 3D renders 

    • External Materials

    • Refined Building Model

Consultant Drawings:

    • Structural, Energy, BAL

    • Meetings And documentation as required

Updated Cost Plan:

    • Refined Estimate based on drawings and materials

    • Mitigation of potential risks and value management

Detail | Specify | Certify

Purpose:

To produce a comprehensive set of technical drawings and specifications suitable for regulatory approval, tendering, and construction. 

Outcomes:

Architectural Drawings:

    • Existing Site Plan

    • Demolition Plan

    • Proposed Site Plan

    • Ground Floor Plan

    • Reflected Ceiling Plan

    • Electrical Plan

    • Roof Plan

    • Brushfire Construction Plan

    • Elevations 

    • Sections

    • Interior Elevations

    • Door and Window Schedule

        • Details

Architectural Documentation:

    • Schedules

    • Specification

Integrated Consultant Documentation:

    • Structural, Electrical, Hydraulic, Energy, Ect

Permit / Certification Documentation:

    • Complete Submission Set for relevant authorities

Cost Estimate: 

    • Outline potential risk factors and contingencies

    • As designed Cost Estimate