These three qualities are the perennial criteria for beauty.
These criteria for beauty discipline excellence in architecture.
Beauty is the method of architectural excellence for our work.
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PRE-DESIGN STUDY
COMPLETED: SPRING, 2022
Artistic Consultant: Madison Brake
Stella Maris Center is a non-profit organization whose mission is promoting and supporting Catholic family life through a variety of educational programs and events. The owner of this non-profit organization commissioned the firm to undertake a study of the Center with an architectural focus on ideal conditions for a lease out expansion of the Center; and later, a multi building expansion on a tract of land. Such a study entailed an intensive exploration and definition of the architectural 1) design concept, 2) project parameters, and 3) facility programming. The study included field visits to various program components such as a retreat house and event center; and several consultations with persons of various expertise able to advise regarding the future expansion of Stella Maris Center.
Sample pages excerpted from the formal report of the Study.
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PRE-DESIGN STUDY
COMPLETED: SPRING, 2024
Artistic Consultant: Jakub Grabowski
Love Croissants is a boutique bakery specializing in the perfection of croissants! Having experienced success and demand in the Houston area selling to walk in consumers and wholesale to local bakeries and cafes, the owner team decided to expand. The principal investor for the company approached Stella Maris Architecture with the task of performing diligence for a new location in the Heights area. The prospective site had already a house within a historic neighborhood; and the study revolved around the possibility of a retail use for the site; the feasibility of using this house or erecting a new building; and a diagramming of a new building on this site.
PRE-DESIGN STUDY
COMPLETED: SPRING, 2022
Architectural Consultant: David Hoffman
Yummi Citi is a business enterprise whose scope of work for the firm entailed assembling a rough order of magnitude (ROM) cost estimate and program diagram for a food truck park; undertaken with the goal of clarifying said scope to support investment commitment for the project.