Schemata News

Thanks to all our friends!

[caption id="attachment_783" align="aligncenter" width="700" caption="Holiday Party at Schemata World Headquarters"][/caption] Last Friday, Schemata Workshop celebrated our 6th anniversary.  Thanks to all the friends, clients, consultants that joined us.  We appreciate your support and confidence. 

In 2010, we won some competitive public contracts with the Renton Housing Authority and the City of Lacey.  And we added Salvation Army to our list of clients with whom we have a shared mission.  We hope the resulting Community Buildings we are producing for these clients will have a lasting impact on the residents and seniors who will utilize them. 

We also appreciate the work we've completed this year for our long standing clients such as the Multi-Service Center, Shelter Resources, King County Housing Authority, ET Environmental, and Waste Management, Sound Transit, the Capitol Hill Chamber, as well as the myriad of single family homeowners we've completed projects with this year.  And of course the team of fantastic collaborators - PAO Structural, SvR Design Company, BCE Engineers, Greenbusch Group, Cierra Electrical, Harriot SmithValentine Engineers, ORB Architects, Frank Company, B2 Structural Engineers, and Wool-Zee Company.

2011 looks to be a very exciting year ahead!

Schemata welcomes Kristin Wells

Its a funny thing when your client becomes an employee.

Kristin Wells hired Schemata Workshop 4 years ago to design her future home as a representative of Daybreak Cohousing.  Over that time, she got to know us really well.  And likewise, we got to know her really well.   We have joked that the Owner/Architect/Contractor team was a bit of a dream team, and when we have talked about our collaborative efforts during public prensentations, a love fest inevitably ensued.  We had a fabulous collaboration with B&G Builders - we were doing Integrated Project Delivery before AIA had finished their formal documentation of it.

Although the 30-unit cohousing community was completed in September of last year, we have managed to visit Kristin at Daybreak monthly for various meetings, grand openings, and weekend visits. 

So when Kristin began looking for a new job, it seemed natural for us to formalize the collaborative relationship and have her join our team.  It's our turn to hire her.  Kristin will be our ears and eyes in Portland, building on her contacts in the affordable housing  community and marketing our expertise in multifamily projects as well as community buildings. 

Welcome Kristin!

Hello brave new world!

We finally made it!  Schemata Workshop is now officially in the blogosphere. Please check back to read our musings about architecture, cohousing, sustainability, capitol hill seattle, urban design, urban agriculture, affordable housing, transit, and design in general.

Grace, Mike, John, Peggy & Kristin