"Designing
a new home, or significantly changing an existing home, is a process of
discovery. Like explorers, architects and their clients work together
to discover a new place. And even though, as professional architects,
we have designed many new homes and additions for a great variety of owners
and sites and budgets, each time we start, it feels as if we were charting a
new course, seeking a new place, one that neither we nor our clients have
seen before.
It is a somewhat paradoxical process,
for when we 'arrive' -- the project successfully done, the residence settled
in -- the owners often feel that the new place is familiar, a place they
already know. 'Yes,' they say, 'this is what we had in mind.'
Creating a home is a process of
making a place that feels both new and old: new, in so far as it is a
fresh response to the existing conditions of neighborhood, site, climate,
program, and budget; and old, in that it contains the deep and familiar
qualities that, regardless of location, budget, and size, make a place a
home. These timeless architectural qualities are what we think of as
the essence of home." - Jacobson et. al., Patterns of Home
Thank you,
Pause Design Group, LLC
