Residential Architectural Designer

People and Housing go hand in hand with one another, where you will find people, you’ll find housing and vice versa. Understanding the unbreakable bond between these two pillars is key to ensuring a successful architectural project. It is the role of the residential architectural designer to ensure that this fundamental aspect is maintained throughout every stage of the process.

What is a Residential Architectural Designer?

It may seem obvious, but we are asked this all the time, it can be quite a difficult question to answer because the nature of our work is that the deliverables such as drawings for planning permission or for building control submission can look similar to other practises. A residential architectural designer is in the simplest terms an architectural designer that specializes in residential projects.

They have a clear understanding of what makes residential design effective and how to ensure that a client’s brief is maximised whilst also ensuring that the project remains within a proposed budget. Similar to an architectural designer they will produce all drawings required for your residential project whilst also handling all the aspects in between such as planning submissions and liaising with other third-party professionals.

What sets an architectural designer apart from a residential architectural designer is that they know the exact processes and constraints that will be applied to your project externally from your local authority or building control officer and blend this with a level of experience and knowledge of residential design that will allow your project to maximise its potential.

The Stages of Working with an Architectural Designer

Below is a very broad breakdown of the stages that will be involved with a potential project and how your architectural designer will guide you through this. More information can be found on our process page, but it is important to understand that not every project is the same, at times certain aspects of the process are not required or additional stages may need to be incorporated. For more information we would always recommend giving us a call where our team of Chartered Architectural Technologists and Architectural Designers can discuss your potential project with you.

Stage 1 – Conceptual & Developed Design + Planning

An initial project brief will be recorded to allow us to identify the key aims of the project, following this an initial investigation will need to be carried out to understand what is and isn’t possible within your project brief in line with the requirements of local planning constraints and construction feasibility.

Your residential architectural designer will continuously refer to the design brief throughout the conceptual and developed design process to ensure that the project needs are met whilst continuing to assess, refine and adapting the design into a feasible project. This is where their skills are most appreciated as it is this stage that will set the tone for the entire project to come, more work here in theory means less work later.

Even if there are restrictions on the project such as planning constraints or a heavily restricted site, we will work to ensure that we maximise the potential of the project whilst achieving the main goal of gaining approval. Our experience in operating as architectural designers specialising in the residential sector means that we have a proven track record of over-achieving on our projects.

We have obviously simplified this stage for the sake of easy reading, depending on your project there may need to be an aspect of caution, arranging a feasibility study or looking to engage in the pre-application process can shed more light on your project prior to planning submission. We can assist with these matters also.

GBS Architectural provides bespoke Architectural Design Services in London. It includes detailed drawings, proper planning, consulting and project management services.