Architectural Design

Rand Soellner home architects provide Architectural Design Services for Homes and Commercial projects.

Rand Soellner’s core service is home architecture.
Since 1984, this has been Soellner’s award-winning practice.

click on this logo fo direct e-mail to RandRand Soellner’s designs have won design awards from such world-class organizations
as the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Florida Power Corporation (for energy-efficient home design), home magazines and other entities.
Rand Soellner’s designs are featured in books and magazines worldwide.

 

Rand Soellner Architect  provides the following

Architectural Design Services:

- Schematic Design

(accomplished as one unified whole)
 Reviewing the client’s information and program data.
 Reviewing the Project Site:
  Building setbacks
  Allowable heights
  Views-directions from house location
  Slopes
  Utilities
  Ingress/egress
  Parking/backup areas
  Main entrance-guests/”front door”
  Garage access point(s)
  Impact on streetscape
  Landscaping impact/ideas
 Creating ideas for possible plans (site and floor plans).
 Creating ideas for possible form of the home/building.
 CAD drafting of 1st floor plan
  Using floor plan layouts with furniture
  Test layout on site on top of survey/site plan
  Keep in mind volumetric form implications of plan
  Adjust layout
 CAD drafting of 2nd floor plan
  On top of grey layer of 1st floor plan
  Using floor plan layouts with furniture
  Keep in mind volumetric form implications of plan
 CAD drafting of Terrace Level floor plan (if any)
  similar items as above.
 Site Plan
  Insertion of 1st Floor Plan onto evolving Site Plan
  Design driveways, entry walks/courtyards, dog runs,
  Fire pits
  Utility/trashcan areas
  Compressor/condensor locations.
  Provide Site Plan at several scales if required, to
   enable adequate detail.
 Elevations
  Front Elevation first, to receive Client approval on aesthetic approach.
   This is the point at which Clients can begin to understand what
   their project will look like when approaching it from the exterior.
   We often include materials that we believe you may appreciate, or that you
   may have requested in earlier conversations.  Windows are shown, the Front
   Door, and in general, the appearance or “face” that your project shows to
   you and the World.
  Sides & Rear Elevations
   taking their cues from the Front Elevation, while
   understanding that there may be some economies in other materials where
   people may not so readily observe them.
 Optional 3D viewpoints, wlak-throughs, fly-bys.

- Advanced Schematic Design

(ASD)/

Design Development (DD)

 This phase often merges with the above, sometime during Elevations.
 This phase often includes incorporating Client’s comments and adding more
 detail to the design, further crafting the solution, adding more notes and
 dimensions.  Architectural design continues developing, hence the term: Design Development.

 

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Soellner has a multitude of capabilities: Luxury Residential Architects, Cottage Family Estate Architecture, Green Home Architect.  The firm also provides: House Design, Home Architecture, Healthy Home Planning, Small Home Architects, Custom Home Designs.

In addition, the company also offers these skills: Log Cabin Design, Mountain Home Architecture, Post and Beam Architects, Mountain Resort Architects, Stone Castle Design.  These services are also offered: Mansion Architecture, Energy Star Design, Log Home Design, Family Estate Planning, Timber Frame Architects.

Soellner also has received interested inquiries from these places: Sevierville,  Tennessee, Nashville TN, Maine, Montana, Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains.  We will design your project for wherever your project is located. 

Soellner is presently licensed as commercial architects in Florida, North Carolina, Washington and South Carolina, however, due to our NCARB certification, we can obtain reciprocity in nearly any state throughout the USA in matter of weeks, if we consider that desirable.  To our knowledge and research, most states do not require licensing to design homes at the present time.  Thank you for your interest. 

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