Residential
With an extensive history in residential design, SDA draws upon the disciplines of Architecture, Planning, Landscape Architecture and Garden Design to create a unique and dramatic interpretation of home. In the residential sphere, the client is the featured player. Rather than dictate ‘style’ or impose ‘character’, SDA helps shape those things via promptings from the client, the site and the architecture.
SDA's residential process develops site and structure as close extensions of each other. Ideally, the architecture of home should be founded upon a marriage of structure and site - the site becoming a seamless extension of the architecture and the architecture an outgrowth of the site’s natural context. Design strategies are based upon a contextual approach, establishing a visual language that enhances the site or architecture’s inherent qualities and potentials. Beyond strong design, SDA strives to achieve that elusive visual “magic” captured and reflected in a strong sense of place
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SDA embraces the philosophy that efficient, functional and aesthetically distinctive site design is an attribute that adds significant enjoyment as well as market value to every property. SDA offers full-service residential site planning and design including:
- site selection
- site development and infrastructure planning
- conceptual architectural design
- sustainable design applications
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solutions- permitting, planning jurisdiction presentations and interface
- building location, vehicular circulation, parking design
- grading and drainage design
- automatic gates and perimeter security
- planting and ornamental garden design
- vineyards, orchards, kitchen gardens and edible gardens
- paving systems
- lighting systems
- fountain design
- custom site structures
- game courts
- site furnishings selection
- construction observation