Build Architecture Awards 2016

2016 Architecture Awards Build 105 Company: Sentient Architecture, LLC / Truehome Design.Build Name: Christopher K. Travis - Managing Partner Email: [email protected] Address: 16070 South Elk Creek Road, Pine, Colorado 80470 Colorado Phone: 303-838-0888 Texas Phone: 979-249-5961 entient Architecture’s mission is to create homes that fit the lives that its clients want to live. Christopher talks us through the firm’s history and how its unusual approach to design evolved. “We were established in 1974. Our target market in those days was primarily design/build services for historic restoration and adaptive historic restoration. As our business grew, we expanded the types of projects we took on, and began to work as general contractors for high end architecture firms, while continuing to offer in-house design services. So I have seen the business from many sides.” “By the end of the 1980’s, I decided that the traditional way residential architecture was delivered was flawed, and returned entirely to a design/ build approach. I also felt that the industry was not sufficiently focused on the deeper emotional and psychological needs of its customers. “In 1998, I began to develop a programming process that eventually evolved into a 144-page document, which I call the Truehome Workshop. It merges psychological questions with traditional architecture programming in order to develop designs that fit the personality, lifestyle, tastes, life priorities and budget of our clients. We seek to tailor living and work spaces in exact ways to fit the nature of their inhabitants. We do this with the goal to enhance our clients’ wellbeing, focusing on the life they want to live in their new home, not just the building. Today this is how our firm is best known.” Travis’ firm has recently expanded its market to the state of Colorado, though they still provide design services in South, Central Texas. He outlines how this development will provide his company with opportunities for growth and expansion. “We now work from an office in the foothills of Denver, Colorado, and are ex- panding our services into this new market. I am also co-writing a book about the methods we use with Sam Gosling, Ph.D. of The University of Texas at Austin psychology department. The working title is True Home. Sam has done extensive research on how personality is expressed in personal spaces, which makes us natural writing partners. The way we see it, the ‘experience of home’ isn’t a building. It is a unique psychological fingerprint in the brain of each individual.” Sentient Architecture, LLC Full-Service Architecture Firm of the Year 2016 - South Central Texas Sentient Architecture, LLC, offers design services through the firm, and both design and construction management through its dba, Truehome Design.Build. Managing Partner Christopher K. Travis talks us through his firm’s unique psychological approach to residential design. S AR160103