MY MISSION

To put it in rather simple lines, my part as architect involved in a construction project is made of 1). creating and drawing a solution for a given set of demands and 2). project solution follow-up by selecting, involving and coordinating every individual and professional is required for getting the construction works going and done on time: simple worker, craftsman, plumber, carpenter, speciality engineer, structural engineer, supplier, driver, cleaning staff member and, above all, you, my client and the reason why all these efforts are being put together in the first place.

In fact, under every major role just described above every project will start developing its own set of conditions, wether aesthetic, technical or financial. Now, these conditions make up the context in which I'll have to search, demand and get multiple solutions which, once found, will have to be adjusted even more to the conditions existing at a certain moment.

So, what I do is, on one hand, creating the initial studies and drawings followed by proposal designs which most often represent the selection base for the final design. Delivering cost estimations, required construction materials quantity estimations and construction works schedules are also parts of my professional attributions. On the other hand, besides these mostly office-based tasks there is the equally demanding on-site supervisory activity by which me, as project architect and engineering specialities coordinator, maintain control over and responsibility of the on-track carrying through and delivery. Some projects also allow an architect to undertake site management and logistics coordination tasks, all these making up the complete set of professional instruments needed for the best outcome.

Ideally, a project will follow as strictly as possible these two steps: a). solution research and selection and b). the corresponding construction works phase. In real life, the architectural solution will generally suffer changes during construction. Thus the already acknowledged deadline becomes obsolete due to unavoidable delays and extra tension in the act of building. At this point the most important preoccupation for me is to shorten the delays as much as possible, to make all changes correctly acknowledged and integrated in the project, to keep the costs effect under control and to have no specification crossed during the process.

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