Every project is scanned before it is drawn.

We own a Matterport Pro camera and use it to document existing conditions, with any additional work-in-progress or completion scans defined in the project agreement. What that gives you is not a gadget. It is a set of drawings measured from reality instead of a tape, and a permanent 3D record of your property that outlives the project.

Matterport Pro. Scanning to match the agreed scope.

A scan takes a few hours on site and produces a dimensionally accurate 3D copy of the space — one you can walk through in any browser and measure yourself. If you want to know whether the sofa fits the new wall, you don’t have to ask us. You drag a line across the tour and it tells you.

Scanning can document existing conditions before design, work in progress and the completed space, where those visits and deliverables are included in the written agreement. Construction-stage recording is documentation, not construction execution or site management.

Both the tour and the measured floor plan that comes out of it are yours to keep. Years from now, when you need to know what is behind a wall before you cut into it, the answer is already on file.

SketchUp and LayOut, on Mac.

The measured floor plan from the scan goes underneath the model, and the design is built on top of it. That is the whole point of scanning first: the geometry starts from the building as it actually stands, not from a tape measure and a sketch made on site.

From there the same model becomes the permit set in LayOut — site plan, floor plans, elevations, sections, construction details, and the Title 24 coordination the City asks for. One model carries the project from the first massing study to the sheets we file, so nothing is redrawn along the way and nothing drifts.

Walk the space at full scale, before it is framed.

By appointment at our Oxnard studio, we put you in an Apple Vision Pro and you walk the design at 1:1. Ceiling heights, sightlines, the distance between the island and the range — the decisions that are expensive to change after framing are free to change here.

Most clients change at least one thing in that session. That is the point of it.

Claude, for the paperwork.

We use Anthropic’s Claude for zoning research, code cross-checks and document preparation — the reading and cross-referencing that used to take a week out of every project.

To be clear about what it does not do: it does not design your house. Every drawing that leaves this office is drawn by a person and stands behind a person’s name.

One studio, one model, one record.

Architectural design, permit documentation and consultant coordination are provided under the agreed written scope. Engineering and structural calculations are quoted separately and are not included in current design and permit fees. Any construction services require a separate agreement identifying the responsible licensed contractor; construction execution and site management are not part of the design and permit scope.