4. • Practice started April 2011; in my 3rd trading year
• Located in Hirwaun, off A465 – ‘Head of the Valleys’
• Limited company
• Entirely computer-based drawing production (CAD)
• 37 years chartered architect
• 21 years in private practice
• 10 years in Housing Association/Social Housing
• 4 years international development/emergency housing
BASIC PRACTICE DATA
Stephen Waldron Architects: ‘serviced design’
5. Key features of service
• free initial ‘home’ consultation (normally 60-90 minutes)
• lump-sum fees & no VAT
• emphasis on agreeing the ‘Brief’ to meet clients’ needs
• multiple sketch schemes until it is ‘right’ for the client
• close attention, rapid response, good communications
Stephen Waldron Architects: ‘serviced design’
6. Service areas
• Site appraisals
• Design
• Planning applications
• Construction Project Management
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7. Design
• new houses
• extensions/loft conversions
• internal re-modelling
• feasibility studies
• offices/commercial
• community buildings
• healthcare/nursing homes
• church re-ordering
Stephen Waldron Architects: ‘serviced design’
8. Design project 1:
• standard terraced house; sloping garden
• clients both film/photography specialists: design focus
• family, 3 children under 8
• want more space; more functional kitchen; open plan living
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Kitchen: inadequate space Living/dining
Rear elevation: raised deck
Cluttered untidy
rear elevation
17. Design project 2: site appraisal & planning strategy
• auction purchase: house with land in Creunant
• client advised by Sam Hawking
• refurbish house: sell off additional plot with planning consent
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22. Design project 2: new house, Seven Sisters
• site within current settlement limit
• steep, awkward site with mixed views
• client hates ‘modern’!
• 3-bed detached house with huge spaces required
• £0.5m budget
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31. ‘Fly-through movies’as a design tool in visualisation
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32. Freeze frames from ‘fly-throughs’
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33. Design project 3: small infill extension/remodelling
• standard terraced house: kitchen small and lower level
• family, 2 children under 6, both parents work
• want more space; ‘wow!-factor’ kitchen; open plan living
• very tight budget
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49. Design project 7: 17th century ruined barn conversion
• 1 complete but leaking barn with solid rock, sloping floor
• 1 barn with roof and upper walls fallen in
• 1 small barn with 150yr old tree growing from collapsed walls
• no water, drainage, gas or power
• 4 acres of broad-leaved woodland
• view of most Beacons
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61. How can you help me?
• medium to larger builders: they advise clients on consultants
• land owners/developers: to unlock land & get max potential
• nursing homes: many are having to expand or reconfigure
Stephen Waldron Architects: ‘serviced design’