Build Architecture Awards 2016

Build 2016 Architecture Awards 34 Company: Andrea Clark Brown Architects, P.A. Name: Andrea Clark Brown, AIA Principal Architect Email: [email protected] Website: www.andreaclarkbrown.com Address: 340 8th Street South Naples, Florida 34102-6325 USA Phone: 239-263-3898 ndrea Clark Brown Architects, PA methodologies link technology to and with the fine arts. Project typologies and scopes vary widely from small residential renovations to design of estate homes and interior design along with a practice including com- mercial, civic, cultural and religious architecture. ACBA consulting and design services are offered as complete and all encompassing, where site, landscape, envelope, interior materials and furnishing, art selection as well as construction administration endeavour to maintain a “white glove” highly customized delivery. The firm is considered a “boutique” practice, maintaining a small staff of licensed professionals, designers and artists working together in a close studio atelier setting. ACBA clients seek and are provided uniquely personal and specialized designs evolving from a philosophy of close communication and mutual rapport. With each programmatic challenge the firm’s design methodologies look to inspire and exude meaning through deliberate and innovative design processes and form making. Characteristic of all phases of the firm’s work is the undertaking of purpose- ful and creative analyses of site, technical requisites, client input and context to ultimately reveal exciting and unexpected solutions to transform what might have been ordinary into the extraordinary. The firm’s recent residential projects respond to disparate scales. Currently on the boards are two contemporary homes with vastly different sites and strategies: The first project is a highly customized remake and enlargement of a hand-built Mid-Century Modern prototype in a downtown urban neigh- bourhood; a design which re-envisions and vastly updates the prototype to showcase the client’s unique and eclectic art collection. The second project is a multi-story minimalist contemporary beach estate home situated on a Florida island noted for its beauty as a tropical resort destination. Both projects are commissioned by savvy world travelers and are currently in the design development phases. These projects demand closely customized detailing, critical attention to their respective environmental conditions, specialized treatments of site landscaping blending inside to outside and response to stringent local and state codes. Due to the Florida subtropical climate, rain shed, water retention, and wind loads pose challenges that invite creative solutions to handling these natural events and their interaction with our home designs. Andrea Clark Brown Architects has distinguished its practice from its coun- terparts by remaining devoted students of design history and theory, learning from the past but reconfiguring tradition to meet contemporary demands. Sustained commitment to architectural relevancy, timelessness and context are our objectives, freeing the firm to purposefully reject tendencies to take on local design cliché’s and short lived fashion statements especially characteristic of a fast growing often developer commissioned “custom” (model) home projects prevalent in SW Florida. The firm disassociates its design efforts from what is often a misnomer as “custom home” design but conversely offers personalized design services that develop our Owners’ programs and projects specifically directed to meet the unique demands of the individual client and their lifestyle. Each residence is conceived to be a true and personal home design expressing individuality and difference as a singular architecture, not a commodity. One key challenge to our design practices which we face is the ever increasing oversight by local Design Review boards or the establishment of community Design Covenants intended to regulate a project configuration so that it behaves according to a precise aesthetic standard. The firm, while appreciating the overall objective of these review demands, also dissects their criteria to reinvent an approach to both satisfy the regulations, but also to assert an independent signature in the handling of these requirements. As such our client’s homes both fit and stand out from the crowd. If there is a style to be named by our hand, its caption is “Reminiscent.” Best Residential Architect 2016 - Naples Andrea Clark Brown Architects, PA (ACBA) is a 30 year established full service architectural, interior design and planning firm located in SW Florida, Naples, USA. Andrea Clark Brown, Principal Architect, offers a fascinating overview of the company and its rich service offering. A