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The Commercial Design Process: How it Works in Cape Town

DesignScape Architects

The architect will begin space planning, land zoning, and business zoning for the site, and create estimations for the cost and timeframe of the project. Architects in South Africa will need to work within the land zoning laws concerning environmental protection and commercial space development.

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A4 Guide: The Six Phases of the Architectural Design Process

A4 Architects

This can establish “grandfathered” conditions that may apply to new project and impact planning and zoning calculations. These may be done with simple hand sketches, Sketch-Up models or even Computer Assisted Design (CAD) drawings, but they will tend to be very diagrammatic and simple.

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2022 Projects in the Pipeline

SW Oregon Architect

LCC Health Professions Building - Schematic Design Phase rendering It’s my pleasure to currently work with Tom on the new Health Professions Building project. Robertson/Sherwood/Architects is the architect-of-record, and our frequent collaborator, Mahlum Architects , is providing design leadership.

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LCC Health Professions Building

SW Oregon Architect

We organized the building’s layout, structural system, and exterior expression in accordance with the 40-foot grid that overlays the entire campus, an artifact of the mid-century planning principles that governed its initial form. Mahlum further broke the 40-foot grid down to three sections of 13’-4”.

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Design in a Day

Life of an Architect

I have asked him to guest write on my site several times without success, but I finally had a topic that suited him … Schematic Design and “Design in a Day” Douglas Burke (aka: architectrunnerguy) Lives in Annapolis, MD. Finished house – exterior photos. Concept Elevation.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

Yet the layout of Square House is completely new, designed purposefully without a front door, a detail that completely re-configures the hierarchy of the spaces. The house is conceived as a series of rooms that can be accessed directly from outside creating a fluid relationship between interior and exterior,” the firm explains.