We represent your people and culture. Our process is to engage each diverse stakeholder of your campus, community, or client group – from students, teachers, and administrators to maintenance staff and associated businesses and organizations. We offer a deep respect for the varied interests of all parties in order to synthesize a successful result for everyone, serving the broad audience that our built environment touches. Listening intently is the cornerstone of our success, supporting an unrelenting passion to provide design that feels natural, represents your spirit, and generates pride for years to come.

We design for the user. Our work responds to the unique characteristics found in every function and individual rather than relying on traditional design, as every person best performs and learns in their own natural way. We design flexible, adaptable spaces with varied, engaging spatial and sensory experiences, allowing every individual to think, discover, create, receive, and exchange information at different times and in different fashions. Whether supporting educational pedagogy or facility management, you will not find a signature style nor dominant pattern in our work, but you will find countless references who tell you their buildings enhance their purpose.

We are committed to sustainability with real results. High-performance buildings protect the environment, conserve natural and financial resources, and optimize the health and happiness of those who inhabit them. True green design further engages users in learning and interaction opportunities for long term stewardship, while reducing facility maintenance needs. Our approach goes well beyond typical methods, applying rigorous building science analysis vetted against our performance database.  We model everything from daylight and energy to carbon footprint “early and often”, providing verifiable outcomes rather than just a good story to tell.

We merge the art and science of design with elegance. In every project, our aim is to understand the essence of the client, program, and context well enough to serve them with building forms, integrated systems, and materials that are natural in their purpose and gracefully made. Our process is holistic, applying decades of expertise in planning, architecture, and engineering disciplines to seamless solutions that present finely calibrated performance and meaningful, artful expression. As a result, we further promote the simple over the complex, limiting maintenance and expense in the pursuit of inherent beauty.

We make places people thrive. Modern buildings are expensive, resource intensive endeavors that impact their inhabitants and our world for a very long time, and they should be worth it. Function, quality, budget, and schedule are of course imperatives, but every project must go beyond. We seek meaning in the culture of the users, uses, and environments our buildings support, offering design which is relevant and enduring to the people and place, with a further drive to create comfort, enjoyment, and inspiration. We make places of discovery – those you feel, engage, and deeply inhabit.