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ABOUT

With offices in Florida, The Carolinas, and Colorado, MHK Architecture offers a stunning variety of architectural design styles that blend seamlessly into the coastal settings throughout Florida and the Low Country and scenic lakefront and mountain Vistas of Colorado and the Western Carolinas. From beautiful contemporary mountain style architecture to luxurious coastal and waterfront homes, our team has the capabilities to appeal to our clients’ individual design styles while blending the architecture with the beautiful landscape of the regions they are looking to locate their home in.

WE DESIGN THE MOST

IMPORTANT PLACE IN THE WORLD: YOUR HOME.

APPROACH

Our goal is to help successful and visionary people build their dream home through a process more enjoyable than they ever thought possible. Because architecture is all about the people who inhabit the spaces we create.

From our approach to our process to our culture, human relationships are central. Our team brings sophistication without stuffiness, designing for the way you live and the needs of your family on a timeline that doesn’t mean you have to put your life on hold.

PROCESS

PHASE 1.

Preliminary Design

PHASE 2.

Schematic Design

In the very beginning phase of a project our team spends a great deal of time getting to know each of our clients, the particulars of their lifestyles, how they live day to day and how they want their home to function. Combined with detailed studies of the project site and the natural features and views of the property, we set the stage for the development of the design. In this phase based on the information gathered for a project a series of early sketches and concepts begin for the overall design. Effectively the “concept” of the design is created and our clients begin to see the overall vision for their residence based on their personalized wants and goals. Knowing that drawings are difficult to understand at times we develop our projects in 3-Dimensions for our presentations so that clients can fully understand the direction of the project.

PHASE 3.

Design Development

During the design development phase a higher level of design is applied to the project and effectively the concept created prior are developed to a great level of detail. Materials are evaluated, structural details are considered, and all aspects of the design are developed to create the home and style that our clients are after. By the end of this phase with all the information collected, the project is presented 3-Dimensionally again in photo-real imagery.

PHASE

4. Construction Document

PHASE 5. Construction Administration

At this stage of the architectural design process, the focus shifts from design to communicating the design and providing all information necessary for construction. Engineering is coordinated through this phase into the design of the project. Construction details are developed to give the contractor the insight to construct the project. The last phase is making sure that the design and wishes of the client are perfected during construction. In this phase we review shop drawings, submittals, and monitor the construction to make sure what is being built meets the design intent. This phase can range from one site visit every month to one site visit every day depending on the owner’s needs, but the end goal is a perfected project for our clients.