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Our distinguished design methodology gives us an edge.

Our agile design process has been honed by best practices from Rhode Island School of Design, Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and from our experience working with clients around the globe. We create each project’s design logic to target objectives and maximize value in measurable ways. We back up our designs with research, allowing us to respond to complexity with specific solutions, and give clients comfort in solutions that are viable.

Give us a call today and see how we can tailor our services to suit you best. 916-316-8061

Feasibility Reports

Wondering where to start with your project but have no idea how physically and financially feasible it is? We provide due diligence specific to building projects.

  • We inquire about preliminary incentives, constraints, and applicable rules from governing bodies, utilities, and agencies and checks for plans in the archives.
  • We advise on any additional evaluations necessary, such as a structural engineer consultation or a septic capacity check.
  • We provide you with regional average build costs and options for matching your vision and budget.
  • We present this information to you and  discuss green lights, yellow lights, and red lights, if any.
Site Plans

The best spaces start with good site organization. We combine quantitative and qualitative data to set the foundation for strong design logic rooted in and inspired by environmental factors. We focus on the human experience of flow, function, light and building form to make places that resonate. When working with us on a site plan, you can expect to receive:

  • A full picture of how your site changes during the year, communicated with maps and visuals.
  • Layout options that work with the natural weather conditions and extend your time outside.
  • Direction on how to frame the landscape with building scale, orientation and general positioning of windows and doors.
  • A clear understanding of how decisions are made by being included in the process.
  • The confidence of seeing your goals and ethos woven into the site plan.
  • A solid design logic that is easily extendable to designing buildings and landscape plans.
Designing Your Home

We recognize how special it is undergo the transformative experience of designing and building your own home. We provide the creative and organizational support you need to make the experience pleasant and creatively fulfilling. Learn more.

Drafting Support

We produce drafted plans for new homes, alterations and additions, select tenant improvements, and mobile projects. We draft digitally with up-to-date tools that increase accuracy and produce clear, high quality measurable drawings.

  • We are known for our ability to quickly and accurately recreate plans for existing buildings- especially the tricky heritage ones. This reduces surprise discoveries by contractors.
  • We are able to document various construction methods, unusual or reclaimed materials and complex curves.
Project Management

Streamline your project management with us. We can help you navigate the bureaucracy of feasibility, permitting and builder oversight with greater ease. 

  • We facilitate the connection of your project’s needs with our network of trusted professionals.
  • When problems arise, we present solutions.
  • You stay in the drivers seat and we do the leg work.
  • We’ve worked through a variety of complex problems before and apply our experience to solving yours.
  • Gift yourself a positive project experience with our project management service.
Concept Design for Masterplans, Sites, and Buildings

Builds upon the site analysis to mass buildings, layout the program, and establish the project’s spatial character. We study the human systems that intersect with the site, including pedestrian flow and existing infrastructure to give the project a cohesive feel with its surrounds. For public facing projects, we translate target market research into design features that attract the right customers. Deliverables include: 

  • Concept Design Presentation
  • Emotive images that give the look and feel of the project
  • Floor plans and elevations required for design review committees and preliminary contractor quotes
  • 3D Virtual Reality Model
  • Material Mood Board

We are a great design development plug-in with large architecture firms.

Master Planning & Smart Growth Analytics

Add agility and speed to urban planning and layout design development with quantifiable reports on a plethora of environmental and quality of life factors. Increase the likelihood of successfully achieving project expectations and add backbone to the final design. Effective for the single parcel to regional scale across the US. Report includes:

Quality of Life Metrics

  • Summary Statistics, such as a population estimate, Job-Housing Ratio, types of Employment and households, and square footage designations
  • Emissions Reporting by source and pollutant type
  • Land Conversion Type, urban infill, greenfield conversion, agriculture conversion
  • Walkability
  • Public Transit Feasibility
  • Household Cost Comparison
  • Water Use Breakdown
  • Energy Use Breakdown
  • Transportation VMT, costs, and emissions

Conservation Metrics

  • Landcover Change
  • Carbon Stock Change
  • Drinking Water Watershed Impacts
  • Habitat Connectivity
  • Habitats Degraded and Improved for various Endangered Species
  • Agriculture Report
Sculpture & Speciality Fabrication

We design and fabricate custom architectural elements to finish off spaces. Missing the frame for the fireplace kit? Need a unique mirror to fit in front of your sink? We can fill in the gap, whether its nature inspired laser cut railings or an out of the box tiny house.

See examples here.

Websites

Often times, our nonprofit and business clients need a website to communicate their project or services. Learn more here.

Reviews

Genevieve has a great respect for culture, memory, and the role of art and architecture in preserving both... as well as a strong grasp of the historical and ethical dimensions of architecture. Genevieve is an original, she will undoubtedly have a profound impact on the cultural and international debates in art and architecture.

David Gersten
Director, Arts, Letters and Numbers

She was a fearless, inventive, and determined member of a very strong international cohort of designers. Among her remarkable traits is an infectious enthusiasm and true delight in the often conflicting and onerous process of design, whether it be traditional architectural work, urban design projects, or her more visceral experiential works.

Jim Barnes
AIA Architect

Genevieve immersed herself fully into these projects and was able to analyze them and create unique solutions for them. She’s a self starter, and finds ways to contribute and add value to projects out of her own initiative. She’s extremely professional.

Nadine Schelbert
Creative Director, WET Design

I will always be grateful to Genevieve Marsh for her work on my memoirs. Her design, cover and layout were perfect for me. She took my pictures of my childhood and placed them in such a way that really catches the eye laying them flat on two pages. Genevieve has inspired me and showed me that anything is possible or rather nothing is impossible.

Charlotte Mankin
Author

She plants seeds for ideas that grow our thinking in fresh directions and opens the mind to possibilities that are both practical and new - and in new directions.  What a way to recharge an organization and build a sense that dreams are doable. Her deliverables were delivered in a timely fashion, were executed with precision and exceeded expectations.

Leslie Warren
Chair, Alliance for Environmental Leadership

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11899 Edgewood Road

Suite M

Auburn, CA 95603

 

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