Trade work
The work with somebody else’s name on it.
A lot of what we make is never signed by us. It goes out under another studio’s name. This is the part we’re allowed to show.
What we produce
01. Why a studio hires a studio
Almost never because they can’t. Usually timing: their people are booked. Or the work is real but not worth staffing for, one set of elevations, one room five ways. Send it out and keep the client.
02. When the client is a designer
The design is already decided. That sounds easier. It’s harder: a detail we’d draw differently still gets drawn as specified.
The job is fidelity, not invention. Your conventions, your title block, your layer names. Your sheets say A-101, so do ours.
A head designer checks every set before you do. Your name goes on it.
03. What we don’t do
We don’t contact your client, appear in your presentations, or show work you haven’t cleared. Everything here was cleared in writing.
04. The work
Three are amenity briefs for residential buildings, with Riva Design: lobbies, leasing offices, a golf simulator, an arcade, a dog spa, a speakeasy, fitness floors and a roof terrace.
The other two are houses with Stephen Davis Home Designs. One building, drawn from outside. The argument is proportion, roofline and how it meets the ground.