Brief
Brief

Brief

Your Project Brief
Your Project Brief
The success of every architectural project lies within a thorough understanding of your challenges, pain-points, needs and aspirations. These form your ‘Project Brief’ and are what we use to guide our entire design process.

Brief Questionnaire

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Fill in the questionnaire
Fill in the questionnaire
Our design process is tailored specifically to you, your family, and your lifestyle. To inform this, we have prepared a set of targeted questions below which we will use to prepare your brief.

Space
 
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What is missing in your current home?

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What spaces do you imagine in your completed project?
What spaces do you imagine in your completed project?
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How many people will be living in the home once complete?
How many people will be living in the home once complete?
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Do you foresee any additions to your home (e.g. children, pets)?
Do you foresee any additions to your home (e.g. children, pets)?
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Are there any pets to be accommodated?
Are there any pets to be accommodated?
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What additional activities do you see occurring in your new spaces?
What additional activities do you see occurring in your new spaces?
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Function
 
What works well at your current home?
What works well at your current home?
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What works not-so-well at your current home?
What works not-so-well at your current home?
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Is there anything about the home or site that you particularly like or dislike?
Is there anything about the home or site that you particularly like or dislike?
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Describe your lifestyle and how you live (e.g. do you entertain often, do you work from home, do you spend lots of time outside, etc).
Describe your lifestyle and how you live (e.g. do you entertain often, do you work from home, do you spend lots of time outside, etc).
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What type of storage do you require (e.g. do you have specific hobbies, require lots of wardrobe space, etc).
What type of storage do you require (e.g. do you have specific hobbies, require lots of wardrobe space, etc).
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Do you have any specific preferences for the relationships between rooms / spaces?
Do you have any specific preferences for the relationships between rooms / spaces?
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Do you have any specific accessibility requirements (e.g. does anyone in your family have a disability we should consider through design?)
Do you have any specific accessibility requirements (e.g. does anyone in your family have a disability we should consider through design?)
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Aspiration
 
Are there any key design features that are important to you?
Are there any key design features that are important to you?
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Do you have stylistic preferences (contemporary, bold, colourful, minimal, modernist, etc)?
Do you have stylistic preferences (contemporary, bold, colourful, minimal, modernist, etc)?
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Have you considered investing in improving energy efficiency?
Have you considered investing in improving energy efficiency?
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Have you considered alternative renewable energy and heat sources?
Have you considered alternative renewable energy and heat sources?
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Pinterest Board
 
If you have a Pinterest Board you’ve been curating with design inspiration, link us up below:
If you have a Pinterest Board you’ve been curating with design inspiration, link us up below:
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Budget
 
What is your available budget for the total project cost (including design fees, construction and VAT)?
What is your available budget for the total project cost (including design fees, construction and VAT)?
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Programme + Budget Worksheet

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As design options emerge, we will use this budget worksheet as a means of testing high-level costs.
As design options emerge, we will use this budget worksheet as a means of testing high-level costs.
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Space
Type
SQM
Est. Cost per SQM
Est. Cost excl. VAT
Notes
Extension
30
£ 2,500.00
£ 75,000.00
Minor Refurbishment
6
£ 500.00
£ 3,000.00
Moderate Refurbishment
15
£ 1,000.00
£ 15,000.00
Extensive Refurbishment
5
£ 1,500.00
£ 7,500.00
Provisional Lump Sum
1
£ 25,000.00
£ 25,000.00

Resources

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Below is a space for you to attach any key documents, surveys, red line boundaries etc that will assist us with our design process.
Below is a space for you to attach any key documents, surveys, red line boundaries etc that will assist us with our design process.

Existing Site Information
Do you have any existing site information (topography, drainage, ecology surveys, covenant/easements, ownership boundaries, etc)?
 
Please upload documents below.

Files

Existing Property Information
Do you have any existing property information (measured survey drawings, building surveys, etc)?
 
Please upload documents below.

Files

The Project Brief

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We will upload your briefing document below, incorporating the outcome of our conversations and the information provided above:
We will upload your briefing document below, incorporating the outcome of our conversations and the information provided above: