ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
WHAT WE DO
Our experienced architectural team create exceptional living spaces, beautifully designed & meticulously planned to maximize contemporary living requirements. We tailor each individual scheme to suit your style and budget while emphasising your own personality and taste.
We excel at the design of beautiful villas and resorts, with each project giving us a chance to create something original and spectacular. While this inevitably involves careful and complex coordination, we have designed a straightforward and customer-friendly process. We use a RIBA-based staged approach, set out with key, tangible milestones, allowing our clients to fully engage in and enjoy the design process, without having to worry about appointing and individually managing a host of independent consultants, or future ambiguous fees.
Our design team bring a passionate and sensitive approach to all our projects. We work collaboratively with our clients to help develop and uncover the full potential of their brief, finding the unique opportunities that exist within it. We are passionate about the implementation of innovative design ideas and transforming our client’s homes, with each of our projects carefully and innovatively crafted to find the perfect solution to an individual brief, property and budget.
Our in-house construction service allows us to design with the benefit of real-time “behind-the-scenes” analysis of live construction projects, ensuring we are designing while taking the crucial “buildability” of our schemes properly into account. Many architects can draw up a dream design, but we ensure our designs are not only inspirational but also practical and economically viable.
Our methodology is to work with our clients to make all critical decisions and choices in advance of the build going live, mitigating any potential delays or budget increases.
OUR PROCESS
1
DESIGN BRIEF
The initial step is for us to fully understand exactly what you want to achieve. We carefully listen to your requirements so that we can design a solution that fits within your budget. After an initial site visit, we prepare a detailed design fee proposal & initial consultation cost estimate.
RIBA Stage 1
1 WEEK
2
CONCEPT DESIGN
This conceptual stage is a very enjoyable and collaborative process where we work with you to refine the optimum layout and aesthetics for your needs. We provide a full architectural drawing service, supplemented by detailed CGIs, to help you fully visualize the proposed scheme.
RIBA Stage 2
3–6 WEEKS
3
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
Following approval of the concept designs, we produce accurate architectural models, obtaining structural calculations, mechanical and electrical designs and any other third party specialist information. We work with a handful of trusted third-party engineers who design and produce full specifications for us to include into our central REVIT models.
At this stage we provide you with everything needed to obtain approvals from the central building Authority (CBA).
RIBA Stage 3
8 - 12 WEEKS
CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS
4
Now the models and engineering stages are complete, the final stage is to produce detailed construction drawings and specifications to enable us, or your contractor, to be able to bring the vision to life.
Precise and detailed drawings and specifications are key here to enable contractors and suppliers to build your project to the designs specified and quality standards you expect.
RIBA Stage 4
3 - 6 WEEKS
SERVICES & FEES
Our design fees are extremely competitive for the service we provide. We charge a fixed cost for concept & design development, then a further fixed cost to produce a tender pack for construction. We do not believe in hidden fees or complicated, ambiguous pricing models. We have three set stages which are based on clear deliverables and the RIBA plan of work. Meaning our clients know the full extent of our fees from the outset, but are only asked to commit on a stage by stage basis.
Where Cayevision are engaged to undertake the build, all subsequent project service fees are covered within the build price, making the design & build route a very cost-effective choice against a traditional Architect / Contractor model.
To learn more about the Design & Build service click here.
Contact us.
If you have an interesting project or commission you want to discuss, submit a message on our contact form or get hold of us directly by email or phone.
design@cayevision.com
Avenida Hicaco
Caye Caulker, Belize