Thoughtful design starts with thoughtful processes.

As Director of Interiors at GSC Architects, I am often asked to present the benefits of integrating interior design into the architectural design process at the project's initiation.  GSC Architects prides itself on creating project solutions that elevate our clients' vision of success.  Integration happens on all levels, including programming, or the first phase of the design process. We take our clients through an intimate programming process to truly understand how they work.  In touring their spaces, while in full-use, and performing ethnographies, we can start to experience their adjacencies and needs for a truly integrated design approach. This exposure gives us first-hand knowledge of their culture.  This exercise then gets woven to help shape the ultimate Design Concept.

It’s in the details…

Because we provide FF&E (Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment) services, we are able to assist with the following: developing budgets, planning, selection, bidding, evaluation, coordination, installation and finally post-occupancy evaluation.  Our clients realize the value of offering these services since they require a strong knowledge base. GSC Architects led Austin Community College through FF&E services for their latest campus in Round Rock, TX. They realized they didn’t have the in-house capability to synthesize all of the components back to the architecture and interior design set forward.  GSC saved ACC Facilities over 5,000 man hours in coordinating the selection, specification, and installation of $15 million worth of FF&E product at their new Round Rock campus. 

Encouraging Collaboration

GSC Architects thrives in creating projects that create a sense of community tangibly and figuratively. We use similar design elements/features that weave the entire design concept from floor to floor or building to building together.  There's a synthesis working from the outside in.  At Austin Community College’s latest Round Rock, TX campus, finishes were purposefully placed consistently in all buildings’ to pull the campus, and its (5) buildings together.  In traveling from building to building and floor to floor, there is an understanding of orientation by placing large ACC-colored acrylic panels in consistent locations.  There is a constant sense of community through the use of the ACC-logo colors.