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Feasibility Study
Your First Step into the Design Process
Deciding how to begin your journey to building a new home or addition can feel like a daunting task. To address this concern, we offer a small initial step that develops a tangible concept that can jumpstart the architectural phase.
Many people ask: How can you be certain of the right candidate for your design team? Can these guys really design my new home? Overall, hiring an architect can feel like an expensive leap of faith.
To get started, all you need is an idea.
Before you hire us for the study, let's meet for an initial consultation. This is our chance to listen to your goals and needs to ascertain if a Feasibility Study is a good first step. A wonderful starting point is a simple wish list of rooms, inspiration photos of houses or rooms you love, or simply a vision of what you'd like to achieve. If you'd like to go above and beyond, also bringing a plat (or surveyed site plan) and a target construction budget will ensure we can quickly move in the right direction.
The fee for a Feasibility Study is a small fixed number.
Most custom architecture firms start their designs through a fixed fee based on the percentage of construction costs, roughly 10% to 12%. To get moving at Hickory Knoll, Architects, we'll only ask for a small fixed fee to cover our time developing the initial concepts. A common fee for a new home or addition is $5,000, but this can vary based on scope of work to be designed. If the project moves forward, we'll apply this amount to our architectural fee which is based on 6% of projected construction cost.
The Feasibility Study takes less than a month to complete and concludes with an exciting presentation of renderings, layouts, and budgets.
We'll take all of your project's goals and constraints to develop a tangible concept for the new home or addition. The presentation will include detailed 3D renderings of the exterior and floor layouts describing the sizes of each room. An analysis of how much the project would cost to complete will also be a main point of discussion which will influence the scope of work to tackle.
If the presentation is well received we'll then be ready to continue developing the concept into architectural design and drafting. This phase should move swiftly and we'll maintain our excitement and momentum.
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