Architecture

Creative design imaginatively blending art and science. Architecture is all around us providing the settings for our lives – at home, at work, in every built public space. The Smart Alliances architecture team design residences, commercial buildings and public spaces with accuracy, beauty and function. Their imaginative blend of art & science, working hand in hand with the resource management and engineering teams distils the client’s brief down to its very essence and then transforms your project from concept all the way through to completion.

 
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Architectural Rendering Services

The Smart Alliances Architectural team have spent some time enhancing their skills in photorealistic rendering. We offer rendering services to both commercial and residential clients. The renders are quick to complete and are a nice option for marketing purposes. They are also good way to help clients with visualising material and colour selections. Below are some examples of what rendering looks like.

 

Residential Architecture

Whether large or small, residential architectural projects are the most demanding because there is such an intimate relationship between the client and their home-to-be. Smart Alliances' architects work with clients to understand their needs and aspirations and fully explore all the potential of the site. We start in the right place by asking the right questions. Our philosophy is to provide our clients with thoughtful, exciting designs while working from concept to completion, hand-in-hand with the Smart Alliances resource management and engineering teams to deliver designs that are not just functional, efficient and look great but are also practical and economic to construct and maintain.

Each client’s design is unique

Because each client’s architectural needs are unique, Smart Alliances explore the options for different materials, forms and functionality to create individual homes that are pleasing to the eye, practical and great to live in. That’s the greatest test of good architecture and something that Smart Alliances are very proud of delivering for their clients.

Our Team of Architects, Engineers and Resource Management can provide “Concept to Completion” service

The Smart Alliances team of architects, engineers, draughtspeople, project managers and resource planners provide you with the complete package. But using the complete package isn’t compulsory – you can also pick and mix according to your particular needs. To find out more about how to get the best results for your project contact us now.

Exempt building work

Click here to find out more about exempt building work and what you should consider if you are undertaking an exempt project

 

Commercial & Industrial Architecture

Whatever your business, Smart Alliances work with you to ensure that the architectural design is properly tailored to align with your working environment, your business goals and your drivers. Nowhere is functionality more important than in commercial and industrial architectural design and that is at the forefront of the Smart Alliance design ethos. Buildings are designed for maximum flexibility and are future proofed to optimise lifecycle cost. The Smart Alliances concept to completion model combined with the total integration of resource planning, engineering and project management means completion and commissioning on time – on budget.

Education Architecture

Educational architecture requires a critical balance between design, budget and function. The Smart Alliances team has considerable experience meeting this complex brief. With award winning projects such as the Marlborough Girls’ College laboratories in their portfolio, the architectural team knows exactly what it takes to blend great form and function in an educational setting.

Smart Alliances inter-disciplinary expertise ensures that architectural design is strengthened through co-ordinated engineering and planning providing cost effective, lasting solutions for education clients.

Hospitality Architecture

The aim of good hospitality architecture is to heighten the guest’s experience while providing a safe and highly functional workplace for staff. Style is a big part of the guests’ experience and lasting impressions. Hospitality design is much more than functionality and bricks and mortar. It has to evoke particular feelings and experiences for the guests according to the business’s plans and drivers. Nowhere is it more important to understand exactly what clients are aiming to achieve so that the architecture aligns with branding and other predetermined considerations. The Smart Alliances team – architecture, engineering and planning coordinate the art and the science to provide imaginative yet practical designs and solutions, each with an individual design aesthetic.

Special Architectural projects

From time to time Smart Alliances are asked to tackle unusual or especially demanding projects. A great example is the design of airport control towers. While these might seem straightforward they are very highly specified and have a very restricted envelope to work within presenting unique design challenges.

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Public Spaces Architecture

Public place architecture is a complex idea. It is about creating a sense of place for the residents of a town or city while contributing to healthy, comfortable, engaging and connected public spaces and destinations. The places that we inhabit in our daily lives. The Smart Alliances architectural team create public spaces where people want to gather, spend time, celebrate and enjoy. In short, their design ethos is about creating public spaces that are both functional and create uplifting experiences. They aim to ensure that people feel better for the experience, even if they are not consciously aware of it. 

Economic solutions

All that said, because public places are usually created with “public money” there are almost always serious budgetary constraints. So the challenge is to find the balance. The Smart Alliances Concept to Completion model with fully integrated planning, engineering and architecture provides aesthetic, functionality and quality wrapped together with practical, economic public place design solutions.

 
 

HERITAGE & BUILDING CONSERVATION Architectural SERVICES

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If you own or manage a listed heritage building or structure and wish to restore, alter or demolish, you will require specialist heritage advice.
Smart Alliances can take can assist you with this process. Our team includes an architect with over 30 years specialist experience in building heritage projects, both large and small.

SERVICES INCLUDE:

  • Heritage Advice

  • Conservation Reports

  • Adaptive Reuse/Condition Reports

  • Heritage Building Design and Documentation

  • Heritage Impact Assessment Reports

  • Expert Witness Evidence, Heritage/Urban Design/Architectural Matters

  • Council Hearings

  • Environment Court

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