View from Rand Soellner’s
Falcon Cliff Lodge of Laurel Knob, the largest rockface in the
eastern USA.
We
Begin by Listening to You
and understanding how you want to live in your special mountain
home.
Rand
Soellner Visits Your Site with
you and documents the best views you prefer, which we incorporate
into the home design, so that when your house is built, the views
you loved enough to purchase the site are framed with large window
areas.
Then,
We Determine the Best Locations for Your:
main home
garage - porte-cochere -
carport
guest parking and backup
zones for your vehicles for ease of maneuvering
septic areas tested or
that need to be tested by your local health department, repair
area, tank location
driveway
possible secondary
structures such as a guest cottage, workshop, additional
garages, or other facilities
We
Review with You
the general appearance preference you may have for your home.
Next,
We Create the Main Level Floor Plan
and review it with you; incorporating any changes you wish. Next we
create the other level plans and the main front elevation and review
that with you. Once again, you have the opportunity to review,
reflect on and request revisions to allow us to make your home what
you want it to be. By this incremental process, you and Rand
Soellner Architect are part of a team working toward one goal: to
create the home you want. At some point, usually after
Schematic Design and before Design Development is complete, we
recommend bringing the building contractor into the team. We
will help you find a builder if you do not have one. We only
suggest state-licensed contractors. They are able to give cost
and availability feedback to the rest of the team, so that you as
the owner can make informed choices as we proceed and add further
information to the documents.
Space
Planning Optimization:
Rand
Soellner Architect “optimizes” its arrangements as
part of its normal procedures for all clients. This means
that we don’t waste a square inch. We get a kick of
making our floor plans as efficient as possible. Our
arrangements are spacious, yet robust and healthy. When
you look at one of our plans, you can sense the vitality of
organization that comes from well-planned space. We sweat
the details. We show our classic mountain door trims right
on the floor plans so that we know our interior designs will
work. We rarely have hallways or corridors, as we prefer
to access rooms from useful spaces that perform desired
functions other than mere circulation.
We work to
get that extra couple of inches in your closet. Our
kitchens have all the latest appliances and the proper distance
between them so that doors and drawers function properly and
look great in the large islands we create. We think about
what we do. We make sure that your Master Suite feels
large yet is not over-done. We align your interior
circulation routes with large windows, framing your views.
We arrange walls, doors, windows and furnishings in artistic
compositions. Our homes and buildings are well-designed
and make good use of space.
During
the Bidding- Negotiating Phase, we
can help you evaluate the pricing to insure that the numbers you are
hearing reflect the home that was designed for you.
During
the Construction Phase,
we offer Construction Administration services to visit the project
site periodically to review the progress and compare it to the
construction documents. We issue reports to you and the
builder to help keep your project on track and in compliance with
the approved documents.
Passion
& Enthusiasm We
are passionate about design and enthusiastically embrace every
opportunity to create a unique project for you, custom-tailored to
your site, lifestyle, family and functional requirements. We
embrace your vision of your project and share with you opportunities
we see suggested by your site and objectives. We are here to
help you obtain your Mountain Dream!
Friendship
We
extend our friendship to you. Friends are people who improve
the quality of each other’s lives.
This
is accomplished by Word (as in discussions with each other
in which you give and receive wise advice and/or are supportive and
nurturing),
Thought (as in positive thinking,
intentions and prayer) and/or
Deed (through
financial enrichment, acts of physical assistance, and beneficial
administrative actions or other helpful acts).
We endeavor to enrich your
life by designing a wonderful mountain home for you.
How
our designs accomplish this:
1
Logical,
functional organization. Rooms, windows, appliances
and other items are where you want them and where they work best
for your desired lifestyle. All the things that have
frustrated you in the past in other homes (perhaps in your
present home) are solved, corrected and improved.
2
Aesthetic
enhancement: Your exterior, interior and site will be
eloquently designed, if we are allowed to develop the design as
we recommend. Our projects seem to typically be
publishable, although we do not generally seek this exposure;
the magazine and book publishers are coming to us. There
seems to be an accepted trend in the special mountain home
category that places us in the top mountain home architects in
the world.
3
View/
window/ glass placement that enhances your enjoyment: Rand
Soellner used to work for one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s main
apprentices. He learned about View Systems. This
technique allows us to electronically align your window locations so
that they are placed to take best advantage of your views.
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