CREATE DESIGNS ARCHITECTURE

CDA aims to create buildings which are healthy, highly refined, successfully functional and satisfy the end user. We offer a high level of architectural insight and care when designing and detailing. We bring to all projects a positive working relationship between client, architectural designer and contractors. 

SERVICES
New Dwellings
Alterations & Additions
Subdivisions
Passive Designed Houses / Healthy Buildings
Low footprint/ Low VOC/ Red list free product choices
Professional Consultation
Light Commercial /Industrial
Concept Design
3d Modelling
Resource Consents
Building Consents
Project Tendering & budget monitoring
Contract & Site Observation

Only only a few projects are shown in the website. CDA has worked on buildings which use Formance SIP panels offering pre-manufactured panels for quick installation / construction and supports healthy buildings.  Healthy buildings can mean a lot of things, "but in short" is well ventilated in summer, warm & dry in winter, reduces thermal bridging and heat loss, passively designed for sun gain & preventing overheating, based on low or nill use of VOC chemical usage (Refer Living Buildings www.livinghouse.org.nz/), making conscious choices of product selections -i.e not using VOC chemicals which are on the Red List, (https://www.livinghouse.org.nz/).  Also vernacular architecture (specifying locally sourced products), and conscious of forest management such as not harvesting first generation timbers like western red cedar and other hardwood timbers, specifying timbers which are either SFC or PEFC managed to protect future tree generations.

For a free quote please email your details and a description of your project. Project examples and process will be discussed at the initial meeting. 

Karl Fenning

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