Brief
Brief

Brief

Your Project Brief
Your Project Brief
The success of every architectural project lies within a thorough understanding of your challenges, pain-points, needs and aspirations. These form your ‘Project Brief’ and are what we use to guide our entire design process.

Brief Questionnaire

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Our design process is tailored specifically to you, your family, and your lifestyle. To inform this, we have prepared a set of targeted questions below which we will use to prepare your brief.

Space
 
What are the key spaces required for Phase 1?
What are the key spaces required for Phase 1?
 
 
What are the spaces do you imagine in your completed project?
What are the spaces do you imagine in your completed project?
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How many people will be accommodated once complete?
How many people will be accommodated once complete?
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Do the spaces need to account for future expansion?
Do the spaces need to account for future expansion?
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Are there any animals to be accommodated?
Are there any animals to be accommodated?
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What additional activities do you see occurring in your new spaces?
What additional activities do you see occurring in your new spaces?
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Function
 
What spaces/rooms are required for each Khaya?
What spaces/rooms are required for each Khaya?
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What spaces are required for the Workshop?
What spaces are required for the Workshop?
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What facilities are required for the sports field?
What facilities are required for the sports field?
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Can you describe the lifestyle you want your quests to experience?
Can you describe the lifestyle you want your quests to experience?
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What type of storage will be required?
What type of storage will be required?
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Do you have any specific preferences for the relationships between rooms / spaces?
Do you have any specific preferences for the relationships between rooms / spaces?
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Do you have any specific accessibility requirements?
Do you have any specific accessibility requirements?
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Aspiration
 
Are there any key design features that are important to you?
Are there any key design features that are important to you?
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Do you have stylistic preferences (contemporary, bold, colourful, minimal, modernist, etc)?
Do you have stylistic preferences (contemporary, bold, colourful, minimal, modernist, etc)?
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What sustainability features should be included?
What sustainability features should be included?
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Have you considered alternative renewable energy and heat sources?
Have you considered alternative renewable energy and heat sources?
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Pinterest Board
 
If you have a Pinterest Board you’ve been curating with design inspiration, link us up below:
If you have a Pinterest Board you’ve been curating with design inspiration, link us up below:
 
 

Budget
 
What is your available budget for the total project cost (including design fees, construction and VAT)?
What is your available budget for the total project cost (including design fees, construction and VAT)?
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Programme + Budget Worksheet

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As design options emerge, we will use this budget worksheet as a means of testing high-level costs.
As design options emerge, we will use this budget worksheet as a means of testing high-level costs.
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Space
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Est. Cost per SQM
Est. Cost excl. VAT
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Resources

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Below is a space for you to attach any key documents, surveys, red line boundaries etc that will assist us with our design process.
Below is a space for you to attach any key documents, surveys, red line boundaries etc that will assist us with our design process.

Existing Site Information
Do you have any existing site information (topography, drainage, ecology surveys, covenant/easements, ownership boundaries, etc)?
 
Please upload documents below.

Files

Existing Property Information
Do you have any existing property information (measured survey drawings, building surveys, etc)?
 
Please upload documents below.

Files

The Project Brief

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We will upload your briefing document below, incorporating the outcome of our conversations and the information provided above:
We will upload your briefing document below, incorporating the outcome of our conversations and the information provided above: