Working with us
Seeking design solutions rooted in craft + place means finding interconnections between the people, context, history, and environment around our projects. Grounding our practice in the sprit and culture of the Mountain West means practicing with reverence toward the natural qualities of our region and the unpretentious honesty inherent in its culture.
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We ask 4 core questions as part of our approach to every project:
1. How can we make constraints opportunities?
We begin each project with taking time to understand the world it will exist within. This task uncovers inspiration, obstacles, and uncovers qualities we can build from or seek to improve upon.
We ground each project in rigorous analysis early.
2. Have we found the purpose and impact?
Our work is more than aesthetic, we’re interested in solving problems and generating positive outcomes in the physical environment. Whether that is in how we’ve designed to support the people who inhabit our projects or in how our projects create a point of pride for the community around them, core to our work is being aspirational in how we can make an impact.
Every project can seek out a bigger purpose and grow its impact.
3. Can we make it better with less?
For each project, we ask: how are we being practical, materially honest, and elegantly simple? Well-edited projects can function better, use fewer materials, save on cost, reduce their carbon footprint, and result in a higher-quality, better detailed design.
We will seek well-edited solutions.
4. Are we having a good time?
Our work serves others. It’s also our craft. We serve both of these ends through a focus on client care, rigorous quality in our work, thoughtful design down to the details, and how we manage our efforts. Doing good work means recognizing that the quality of the experience of working with us links directly to the quality of the outcome.
A good project is only as good as the experience along the way.