Services
How we work, and what we do.
We are an architecture and interior design studio. We take projects from feasibility through construction administration, and we are fluent across ground-up, adaptive reuse, and tenant improvement. Our work is most consistent with developers and operators building experiential venues across Texas.
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Architecture
Ground-up and adaptive reuse, from feasibility through occupancy.
Full architectural services — programming, schematic design, design development, construction documents, bidding, and construction administration. Typical project size is 5,000 to 65,000 SF. We take projects from a single conversation through the certificate of occupancy and beyond, and we do construction administration in person.
Typical engagements
- Type IIB commercial shell, ground-up
- Adaptive reuse of industrial and warehouse buildings
- Mixed-use developments organized around public space
- Tenant improvements within existing shells
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Interior Design
Commercial interiors that perform on the pro forma.
Restaurants, retail, racquet clubs, climbing gyms, workplaces. We design interiors with the operator's P&L in view — durability, sequencing, and the operational realities of cleaning, turnover, and brand expression. We frequently scope interiors as a continuation of architectural work, but also take on standalone interior projects inside existing shells.
Typical engagements
- Restaurants and bars (full FF&E coordination)
- Climbing gyms and racquet clubs
- Coworking and creative-class workplace
- Brand-aligned retail
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Feasibility & Pre-Design
The conversation that decides whether to build.
Site assessments, programming studies, zoning analyses, test fits, and order-of-magnitude budgeting. Most often engaged before a property closes or before a brief is finalized, this work is what saves a project from being designed against the wrong assumption. Fees are scoped to the question being asked.
Typical engagements
- Pre-acquisition site and shell assessments
- Test fits inside existing buildings
- Programming studies for new typologies
- Pro forma-aligned massing and zoning analysis
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Adaptive Reuse
A specialized practice within architecture services.
We treat adaptive reuse as a method, not a project type. Engagements typically begin with a structural and shell assessment, move through a design phase that holds the cost of new construction inside a tight envelope, and end with a building that reads as the negotiation between what was there and what the program requires.
Typical engagements
- Industrial warehouse to experiential venue
- Existing retail to mixed-use
- Office to hospitality
- Tilt-wall structures with re-roof and clerestory work
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Owner's Representation & Advisory
Project advisory for owners building outside their core competency.
For owners and operators building their first venue, or expanding into an unfamiliar typology, we sometimes engage as advisor rather than as architect-of-record. The deliverable is decision support: how to scope the brief, how to evaluate sites, how to read a contractor's bid, how to decide between adaptive reuse and ground-up.
Typical engagements
- First-venue advisory for emerging brands
- Network expansion strategy for multi-location operators
- Owner's-side review of architect and contractor proposals
- Pre-construction scope and risk reviews
Engagement
How a project starts.
We aim to be transparent about how we scope and price work. Here is the path most projects take from first email to executed contract.
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Initial conversation
A free, no-obligation 30-minute call to understand the project and the timeline. If it's the right fit on both sides, we move to a written proposal.
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Proposal
A scoped proposal with deliverables, fees, and a project schedule, typically within five business days of the initial conversation. The full service scope — sized to the project — is included.
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Engagement
Most projects are AIA B101-based with phase-by-phase deliverables and progress invoicing. Smaller advisory or feasibility scopes are flat-fee. Construction administration is done in person, weekly, on the site.
Standalone studies
Useful on their own.
Some pieces of architectural work have value before — or entirely outside of — a full engagement. We frequently take them on as discrete scopes for owners, brokers, and operators evaluating a property or sharpening a brief.
Land Use Assessment
What a property will and won't allow, before design begins. Zoning, setbacks, easements, floodplain, environmental constraints — documented so decisions about project type, scale, and feasibility rest on the actual rules.
Preliminary Code Assessment
Building-code research at the front of a project, before a specific design is on the table. Height, area, sprinklering, construction type, and occupancy classification — the decisions that shape everything downstream.
Visioning
The conversation that defines architectural strategy and style before any line is drawn. We weigh priorities and align aesthetic intent with how the project actually needs to perform.
Existing Conditions Modeling
A clean, dimensionally reliable 3D model of the building or site as it stands today. We scan via LiDAR; a third-party vendor processes the data; we refine it into the baseline new design responds to.
For the full picture of how we work — the six phases of a project and the thirty-five services within them — see the Workflow page.
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