Architecture Studio in TigardPortland, OR

How we work in Tigard

• Residential & Housing Architecture

  A home addition on Bull Mountain or a remodel in Metzger still needs permit-ready drawings from a licensed architect when the city requires a stamp. Residential architecture here is often about blending with the street, not inventing a new neighborhood. We would rather freeze the program in schematic design than bill hundreds of extra hours because rooms kept moving.

• Hospitality Architecture

  Hospitality in Tigard is interiors and service planning under construction documents, not a skyline hotel. Guest rooms, dining, and back-of-house have to be one coordinated set. Keeping that work in the same practice as housing and workplace means a hospitality room is drawn with the same phase discipline as any other building.

• Master Planning & Urban Design

  The Triangle and Progress Ridge are already urban design problems: sites, movement, and mixed program. Master planning is the site plan that makes those relationships bidable and discussable. We draw that plan so neighbors in Tigard and nearby Durham can see the daily use, not only the massing.

• Workplace Architecture

  Workplace architecture along the Triangle needs construction documents and interiors that survive a real workday. If you already have a layout you like, the task is coordination and permit-ready drawings, not a second concept competition. We will say when an hourly model is the wrong fit because the program is stable enough for a fixed fee or a not-to-exceed cap.

• Retail Architecture

  Retail on Tigard streets is permit-ready drawings plus interiors: how stock, staff, and customers share a tight floor. A shop that only exists as a colored ground-floor band on a housing elevation is not a retail project. We draw it as its own room with its own path to permit.

• Mixed-Use Development Design

  Mixed-use in Tigard is neighborhood work. Housing, shop, and workplace on one lot need urban design that names the ground-floor life, not a stacked diagram copied from somewhere denser. That planning sits in the same team that will later produce the building set, so the idea survives into construction documents.

• Institutional Architecture

  Institutional projects still need a clean schematic design gate before design development spends real hours. Tigard clients should ask for that gate in the contract. Construction documents then carry the program a civic or community client actually runs, not an architectural idea that looked strong in the interview.

• Senior Living Design

  Senior living on a Tigard site is housing and interiors measured against how people move, rest, and receive visitors. It should read as part of Cook Park or Durham, not as a sealed campus. We design from the day in the building, then wrap drawings around it.

• Recreation Facility Design

  Recreation facilities need a site plan that prices arrival and outdoor program with the building. Construction documents that ignore the lot leave the owner negotiating the real project in change orders. We would rather draw that relationship in design development, while value engineering is still possible.

• Adaptive Reuse Architecture

  Renovation and adaptive reuse in older Tigard fabric is a different sequence than a vacant-lot custom home. Existing structure first, then interiors, then new work where the building can take it. If you only want a stamp on an unchanged sketch, that is not reuse — and we will say so rather than stretch a concept past the structure.

• Interior Architecture

  Interior architecture for housing, workplace, hospitality, and retail is part of the Tigard drawing set, not a later hire. Design development is where layout, finish, and building systems either meet or start to fight. Keeping interiors in-house is how we keep that fight off the jobsite.

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