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"Design-build, [...] focuses [...] on trying to bring design and construction into greater creative contact and confluence. In this way, the same energies and intentions inform the concept and the way it eventually is realized, extending design-thinking into the material world of construction. This necessarily involves adjusting the conventional roles of the designing and the building process: the architect and contractor, working closely with the client, share the responsibility of providing the building. The intent is collaborative rather than adversarial.[...]The alternative offered by design-build practice not only brings the architect into the building process, but empowers both builder and client to contribute to the ongoing process of designing and building." (Susan Piedmont-Palladino, Devil's Workshop, Princeton Architectural Press, 1997) Blue Sky Design has its roots in the design/build tradition. The company was formed in the early 1970's by young architects seeking a more direct relationship with the materials and processes of their craft. Over the years the tradition has continued, and today many of our favorite projects are designed in our studio and built by the Blue Sky crew. There are many advantages to design/build. It's a process that promotes an environment of collaboration including each participant in the dialogue. Design is extended into construction, and construction issues are brought into the design to be explored very early in the development of the project. A kind of responsiveness is generated that is sometimes stiffled in more adversarial work arrangements. Our design/build projects often go from "foundations to furniture". Including all phases of project management and the sourcing of materials and services. |