A properly designed community can make a huge difference in people’s perception of this environment that they call home.  Having a cohesive theme can pull it together.  Home architects Rand Soellner establish an architectural theme and then creating community standards to help designers and architects coordinate with imagery appropriate to the neighborhood.  Soellner also plans the layout of the community (community planning).  The neighborhood theming establishes a richness, value and aesthetic appreciation that might otherwise be missing.  We call these services community planning, neighborhood theming.

Neighborhood Theming, Community Planning

Community Standards & Architectural Review Board Services

(C)Copyright 2003-9 Rand Soellner, All Rights Reserved Worldwide.  Mountain Themed shopping village, Cashiers, NC, designed by Rand Soellner Architect.

Rand Soellner is the Architect of Record on about half of Jurassic Park for Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, as well as the designer of multiple award-winning home designs, including energy conservation home awards from major power companies for energy-sipping residential designs (such as from Florida Power Corporation), design awards from the American Institute of Architects and magazine and book articles featuring his custom home architecture world-wide. This world-class creative work along with scores of houses and community planning and neighborhood theming give Rand Soellner the specialized background that you as a developer or high-end luxury homeowner want and need for your unique suburban, country, lakeside, forest, or mountain dream home or community.

(C)Copyright 2003-9 Rand Soellner, All Rights Reserved Worldwide. Mountain-themed shopping village, Cashiers, NC, designed by Rand Soellner Architect.

Rand also routinely themes homes and community facilities in neighborhoods to have a unique mountain flavor like these:

• Adirondack
• Arts & Crafts
• Craftsman
• Mountain Lodge style, which is Rand’s own unique theme that he has evolved over the years, to incorporate “what people coming to the mountains expect.”  Soellner: home architects creating luxury residential projects.

The purpose in having a distinct theme gives cohesiveness to a neighborhood and helps developers obtain better sales price and faster sales than generic communities.
Rand Soellner has surveyed hundreds of people coming to the mountains over the years, along with countless realtors and appraisers in this special environment. The results of this information gathering has resulted in Mr. Soellner’s tightly focused neighborhood theming styles that PEOPLE WANT TO BUY AND PAY TOP DOLLAR FOR! Rather than simply creating themes than are personal whims, Rand Soellner Architect uses and creates themes that are what people want. Isn’t that what you as a developer want and need?

Community Standards Architect

Soellner writes Design & Construction Standards for communities as home architects. These standards insure that the quality community you had in mind when acquiring the parcel will live on in the built neighborhood.  Soellner addresses Architectural, Landscape, Drainage, Site Planning and other issues, along with Construction practices, including forms to be filed with your ARC (Architectural Review Committee) by the homeowners and builders.

Architectural Review Board Services

Rand Soellner sits on multiple Architectural Review Committees (ARC). In this capacity, the bulk of the review, analysis and decisions and communications with your homeowners goes through Rand Soellner Architect. The advantages of this are:

Your mountain home can be arranged to view wonderful environmental features by Rand Soellner Architect.

No one else in your community, including you, as the developer, become the “bad guy,” insisting that the Design and Construction Guidelines be followed.  Rand Soellner Architect will handle that for you.

Your homeowner applicants are receiving the review of a licensed architect, which helps create professional results.

Your Design and Construction Guidelines are enforced, with a friendly, personable attitude.

We offer an hourly “redline” service to your homeowners, in which we can markup their drawings to result in the improvements necessary to turn their schemes into an acceptable home for your community.

Our rates are hourly, which typically yields a cost-effective service.

We have a national reputation as home architects. If anyone asks you why we are doing what we are doing for your neighborhood, you can say: “Rand Soellner Architect is one of the top home architects, and leading mountain architects in the world. They are uniquely qualified to perform these services to help our community be the best it can be, which helps the property values of everyone in the neighborhood.”  Community planning is one of these key services.

MOUNTAIN ARCHITECTS / LUXURY RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITIES, MOUNTAIN NEIGHBORHOODS

(C)Copyright 2004-9 Rand Soellner, All Rights Reserved Worldwide. Lake Toxaway Estates community hosting several of Rand Soellner Architect's home designs, including this, the Eagle Mountain Aerie.

Custom home architects, luxury residential architects, and Mountain Architects need to have a leading role in the design of neighborhood theming and community planning.  Custom home architects, luxury residential architects and Mountain Architects are among the few specialized professionals that have the skills necessary to create the unique places we refer to as “the Mountains,” and other special communities, when people think of places to stay, live and recreate in these beautiful regions.  Houses designed in conventional neighborhoods  do not have the same flair as those created by  luxury residential architects and Mountain Architects who live, work and daily create unique homes and other neighborhood themed facilities for styled neighborhoods and themed locations. Custom home architects are best- suited to designing special and mountain: residences, neighborhood entry features, clubhouses, pavilions, equestrian stables & associated areas, exercise facilities, outdoor spaces, multi-family and condominium structures, boathouses and other features.  Community planning is a natural extension of these services.

This article is useful for those seeking:
Community planning
Neighborhood theming
Mountain Themed Designers
Mountain Themed Communities

Soellner has had numerous requests from potential clients from all over the world asking: “Do you design projects here?”  Yes is the answer and to further explain, we thought we would list quite a few locations through the USA and also internationally, to illustrate the point that yes, we do and will design projects anywhere you them to be located.  Our short answer to your Where question is Yes! 

Rand Soellner Architect is & provides: Cottage Family Estate Architecture, Green Home Analysis, and Luxury Residential Design.  He founded the Healthy Home Design program.  He also creates Small Home Architecture, and mid-size and larger Custom Single Family Residences.

 Also we perform these roles: Post and Beam Designers, Mountain Home Architects, and Stone Castle Planners.  We are also Mansion Architects, and provide Energy Star Analysis.  We also design Log Homes and Family Village Estates.  We have specialities in the design of Timber Frame and Post and Beam structures. 

We are happy to design your home an theme and plan your neighborhood and communities wherever they are located.  

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