As a full-service architectural firm, Richard Skinner & Associates offers thorough, detailed service from a project's start to its finishing touches. A typical architecture or design project involves site analysis, programming, preliminary design, budgeting, construction documents, final pricing, contractor selection, and construction administration. Our full-service pricing structure includes structural, electrical, and mechanical engineering as part of the basic fee. We coordinate with consultants such as interior and landscape designers, along with civil engineers, to help ensure a high quality end product. Along the way, each phase of completion is approved by the client before the next phase begins.
Visualization Services
Richard Skinner & Associates offers a variety of ways to help you visualize your design – before the building begins. The cost of this service varies with each architecture project, and depends on the project's complexity and detail. Visualization services are available for residential as well as other types of projects. Thanks to new technology, however, the process is easier and more cost-effective than ever before.
3-D - Computer modeling can demonstrate what a building will look like at eye-level, allowing viewers to move about the building at will to examine its component parts. Year-round sun and shade patterns can be demonstrated, based on the building's location on the actual site. Material, color, and lighting can also be explored, depending on each model's level of detail.
Models - Models can be constructed of laser cut board to simulate material textures and actual site conditions. These are useful in demonstrating how a building's shape, window and door placement and roof forms come together.
Renderings - Two- and three-dimensional renderings are a wonderful way to give a building a sense of place and scale. Renderings help place value on color, material, light and shadow. These drawings show how a building will appear in its natural setting.
