We offer a full range of architectural services to ensure a smooth process from concept to completion, from initial consultation and schematic design through building permit acquisition, bidding and construction administration. We strongly adhere to sustainable design principles while we transform your dreams into reality.
Designing Custom Homes
- Consultations – initial consultation is at no cost – let’s get to know each other.
- Planning – site plans and bubble diagram plans – define spaces for the way YOU live, where YOU want to live
- Design Services – work with your ideas and goals to bring out your aesthetic styles
- Construction/Permit Drawings – illustrates your home’s design into instructions for code compliance and construction
- Permit Procurement – complete application documents and drawings, and expedite the process through municipal departments
- Additional Service – may include Zoning Variances or Adjustments, Renderings, Promotional materials
- Construction Administration – may include our services to observe and report adherence to the design intent through the construction process on your behalf
Designing Custom Renovations
- Consultations – initial consultation is at no cost – let’s discuss your project
- Planning – define spaces for the way YOU live
- Design Services – work with your ideas and goals to bring out your aesthetic styles
- Construction/Permit Drawings – illustrates your home’s design into instructions for code compliance and construction
- Permit Procurement – complete application documents and drawings, and expedite the process through municipal departments
- Additional Service – may include Zoning Variances or Adjustments, Renderings, Promotional materials
- Construction Administration – may include our services to observe and report adherence to the design intent through the construction process on your behalf
Multi-Family & Mixed-Use Development
- Consultations/Feasibility – working with you to maximize the use of the site based on your pro-forma
- Planning/Schematics – defining the project’s scope and parameters to work through potential changes such as Zoning variances & neighborhood associations/Alderperson’s requirements
- Design Development – bringing the proposal into illustrated design of plans and elevations for approvals from the local municipality
- Construction/Permit Drawings – Preparing all drawings, details, specifications for code compliance in the permit review process & construction
- Permit Procurement – complete application documents, reports and drawings, and expedite the permit process through municipal departments
- Construction Administration – onsite review of the construction processes to ensure design intent, code approvals, etc.
- Additional Services – may include Renderings, Virtual Walk-throughs, Promotional Materials and more.
Timber Framing
- A niche in architecture, a craft and our passion
- Timber Frame architecture dates back centuries – and should last centuries. An heirloom.
- We will work with your existing timber frame building – be it a home or a barn or a loft space
- We will design new custom timber frame structures for you – down to the peg detail, or to your builder’s requirements
- All previously outlined aspects of the project apply to these structures – be it for a home, a barn, or a mass-timber complex
- In addition to the standard process, we develop the timber frame designs into working “shop drawings” for your manufacturer/builder to complete the pieces as designed.
Urban & Rural Planning
- Whether it’s for a private development, a community not-for-profit, or a municipality with public funding, we provide services to help foster sustainable and socio-economic development.
- Provide master planning services to investigate how to integrate varying levels of residential density with commercial diversity and civic amenities.
- Design and deliver prototypes for the various architectural elements of housing, business and public functions.
- Provide guidance on street types, proportions for varying levels of density for both vehicles and pedestrians to maximize the local market.
- Enlist our services to design individual buildings to suit – results in cohesive integration into the master plan.
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Marts & Valentin Architects has been working on reimagining a 1910 single-family American Renaissance brick house for a young tech-oriented single gentleman. This process involved reinforcing lost structure and room forms as well as reestablishing former circulation patterns.
SOFT-LOFT LIVING
With the high windows and raised ceilings, you get a loft-like feel in this old industrial corridor. Tall south-facing windows let in vast amounts of light. The open plan of the front-end living spaces enforces loft-living.
More info: https://www.architectsmart.com/
With the high windows and raised ceilings, you get a loft-like feel in this old industrial corridor. Tall south-facing windows let in vast amounts of light. The open plan of the front-end living spaces enforces loft-living.
More info: https://www.architectsmart.com/
DORMERS AT LIVING ROOMS
4 out of the 9 top-floor units were built into a mansard roof as a means to reduce perceived building height. This created opportunities for dramatic window and door openings. These dormered openings let you out onto balconies with skyline views. The developer opted for a harder loft-look and left the flex-core ceilings exposed for a higher finish ceiling.
More info: https://www.architectsmart.com/
4 out of the 9 top-floor units were built into a mansard roof as a means to reduce perceived building height. This created opportunities for dramatic window and door openings. These dormered openings let you out onto balconies with skyline views. The developer opted for a harder loft-look and left the flex-core ceilings exposed for a higher finish ceiling.
More info: https://www.architectsmart.com/
AS-BUILT DEVELOPMENT WITH COMMERCIAL AT GRADE
The developer opted to install utility brick rather than facebrick as value-engineering the facade. The overall scale of the project doesn't seem to mind. Different colors and styles of masonry were used to achieve the desired break-up of the block-long massing of this development.
More info: https://www.architectsmart.com/
The developer opted to install utility brick rather than facebrick as value-engineering the facade. The overall scale of the project doesn't seem to mind. Different colors and styles of masonry were used to achieve the desired break-up of the block-long massing of this development.
More info: https://www.architectsmart.com/
