Difficult residential sites

Some projects deserve to be designed from scratch

Some projects are too specific, too site-driven, or too personally important to be solved with a plan pulled from a shelf. That's why homeowners and builders bring us in.

We sort out grading, access, retaining, and regulatory questions early — so the design and the drawings match what actually gets built, solving problems before construction starts and taking full advantage of the unique features of your site.

How we work

• Site-first discipline

  Steep lots, tight infill, and Austin compatibility rules are part of the design from the first sketch. By the time the set goes to permit, those constraints are already woven into the architecture—so they feel intentional, not like a late fix.

• Commercially informed residential design

  When it serves the project, we bring the clarity of commercial practice—massing you can read, detailing you can build, coordination that holds—so the result feels sharp and urban where it should, and still feels like home.

• Permit-aware planning

  We write for reviewers and the crew: slope, access, and code-sensitive conditions explained plainly, which helps everyone move ahead with fewer round-trips and repeat questions.

• We know this ground

  Thirty years of residential practice across Central Texas — the terrain, the soils, the lake communities, the Hill Country edges, and the jurisdictions that trip up architects who are just passing through. We have worked in Spicewood, Lago Vista, Jonestown, Leander, Cedar Park, Round Rock, Hutto, Bastrop, Kyle, Buda, Marble Falls, Burnet, Georgetown, and Austin. If your lot is somewhere in that geography, we almost certainly know it.

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