Designmatters Architects, Cape Town

The practice provides the client with highly qualified and experienced professionals, ensuring that each project has the benefit of the full range of services by specialist professionals.
Projects begin with space. The space of discussion and assessment, the physical space of the sites, the space of establishing a client architect relationship and the space of creativity. This is combined with the technical aspects of deciding on a brief, understanding the specific council regulations, constraints, and taking time to think through planning, phasing, design and construction concerns which are considered in conjunction in order to produce a product that is both cost effective and of a high quality.
Projects mature into ideas developed through understanding the client needs, site possibilities and architectural form, connecting people with space. Sketched out ideas become possibilities, communicated through design concepts, ideas about building, responses to site, concept models, plans, 3d drawings, photographs and sketches. At the outset, design studies are undertaken to enable a range of options to be explored. This ensures the most thorough and cost effective solutions are produced.
Design development involves the imagining of a building, the distillation of ideas, the organising of plans, and the turning into reality. Concern for elegance, simplicity, and efficiency extends from the concept of the building scheme to the detailing of the smallest components. Each commission is treated in an individual manner and enveloped through all stages in close collaboration with the client, producing a creative flexible scheme.
Buildings have to be sustainable, artistically pleasing and functionally robust. Imaginings are turned into technical documentation, final plans, municipal approvals, construction details, tender packages, and detailed to the smallest scale. At this stage rational approaches to design are combined with practical sensibility,

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