Christopher Alexander
Saikley Architects offers a variety of services tailored to our clients’ needs.
Services
- Architecture
- Interior design
- Landscape design
- Furniture, furnishing and equipment specifications
- Childcare design and consultation
- Development Consulting
- Pre-purchase property evaluations
- Evaluation of potential building sites
- Site selection and planning
- Feasibility studies
- Programming
- Community and master planning
- Public workshop facilitation
- Neighborhood outreach
- Comprehensive construction documents
- Entitlements including special approvals
- Sustainability and resiliency consulting
- Design of high-performance green homes
- LEED consulting and documentation
- Accessibility / ADA consulting
- Historic preservation, renovation, restoration and adaptive reuse
- Construction administration
- Post-occupancy review
- Expert testimony
- Presentation graphics, including 3D computer-generated models, pencil sketches, and watercolor renderings
“There is an undiscovered beauty, a divine excellence, just beyond us. Let us stand on tiptoe, forgetting the nearer things, and grasp what we may.”
Bernard Maybeck
Project Steps
- Preliminary Consultation
Our initial discussion of your project. - Proposal and Contract
Write a proposal for services, which becomes the project contract. - Existing Conditions
Review property documents and permit history, obtain a site survey as needed, create as-built drawings, and analyze site. - Assemble Team
Assemble the team of engineers and other consultants needed for the project. - Programming
Investigate client’s objectives, strategize design responses, and develop a scope of work. - Feasibility
Evaluate cost/benefit of design options in conjunction with budget, schedule, codes, approvability, and construction opportunities. - Master Planning
Create an overall plan for developing the project site over time, as needed for multi-phased projects. - Schematic Design
Collaborate with client and project consultants to produce design drawings showing options. These develop through several iterations with the client. - Design Development
Develop the building and site design in detail. Work out design details and building systems in coordination with consultants. - Contract Documents
Produce drawings and written specifications for permit, construction bid, and construction. - Permit/Approvals
Coordinate with government agencies to obtain permits. Coordination begins in the Feasibility phase and continues throughout the project. - Bidding and Negotiation
Interview contractors, coordinate bids, and help the client negotiate a construction contract. This process often begins in Schematic Design. - Construction Administration
Guide the project through construction. Site visits, additional information to the contractor, coordination among all parties.