Posts in Design Principles
Our Design Director's Top Space Planning Strategies

The initial step to most projects is to come up with a strategy to organize all the different spaces and determine what kinds of spaces are needed, what they should and should not be next to, and how those spaces will fit in to our overall goals.

Straight from our Design Director, here are three of our top Space Planning Strategies we can utilize when starting a new project.

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Regional Materials Palette

Our regional materials palette features tile, stone, wood and other building material sourced locally, supporting sustainability by reducing the transportation impact of building materials over long distances. Below is a compilation of materials we think you should consider using in your next building project.

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Framework for Excellence: Design Strategies

The American Institute of Architects has recently released its Framework for Design Excellence, a guidance tool consisting of ten key principles complemented by probing questions. This tool serves as a guidepost to help designers make advances toward a better built environment that is zero-carbon, promotes health, fosters resilience, and upholds equity.

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Selecting the Perfect Terra Cotta

When our clients for a new, two-family home in the Irish Channel neighborhood asked us to provide them with something warm, modern and organic, we were excited about exploring this design aesthetic, especially as it pertains to key features like terra cotta tile.

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Adaptive Reuse in Downtown NOLA

When our clients came to us with an adaptive reuse project to build a hotel in an old warehouse structure, we knew there would be some challenges. Soon the solution became clear: what if we built a hotel UNDER an old warehouse structure?!

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Almost After: The Picheloup Place Renovation

Two couples, a brother and sister and their spouses, bought the home in an effort to downsize, and retire closer to their children and grandchildren. The home is a 1920s bungalow style two-family residence, but had been modified with dated finishes and an inefficient floor plan.

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Our Process: Pinning Together!

Identifying you style can be tough, especially when you are flooded with beautiful imagery on social media. It can be challenging to use one word to describe a style, so we don’t ask our clients to use words, instead we ask them to pin. Yes, we use Pinterest.com as a tool in our design process. We particularly like the aspect of client and architect sharing this board together as means of real-time collaboration. We do set those specific project boards to “private” so we can create virtually in the same confidence as we would in a face-to-face design meeting.

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Our Process: Creating Better Visualization For Clients

Though our photorealistic renderings are a visualization tool they are often not seen by our clients until we are almost finished with the documentation portion of our work.

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Introduction to Camelbacks

The term “camelback” is as familiar to New Orleanians as red beans and rice. This architectural vernacular, resembling a silhouette of a camel, is an addition on the back of a home that allows the street facing façade to maintain its historic massing and scale, and it’s a solution popular in our historic neighborhoods.

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A Home Inspired By the Sun, Moon and Stars

I truly enjoy having clients that inspire me with their talents and artistry, whether its cooking, painting, graphic design or writing. The ones with the strongest point of view (whether design-related or not) inspire me the most.

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