The Hayne Way: Different Types of Site Visits

Site visits or architect “field trips” are vital to the design process. Here are four types of site visits that we do here at Hayne. TYPE ONE: Pre-Design Meeting The site is important…. like very important…. At the beginning of every project, we meet on-site to review where the project is physically located and hear…

As-hole Built Series: Me versus As-builts

A dramatic interpretation through Gifs… Every project starts with drawings of what exists. A lot of times we generate base drawings after we do a site visit to field measure and photograph existing conditions (which you know we LOVE doing…), but sometimes, our clients already have drawings for us to work with… or so we…

As-hole Built Series: Here is a post-it…

You all know we love as-builts (eye roll) … and Los Angeles 1920’s hillside houses are our very favorite to field verify.  The boss man innocently handed us two post-its with some sketches for the areas that we needed to focus on for our new Linwood project and we thought oh how great!  We only…

the As-Hole Built Series: All the Chickens in the Coop

This week we continued working on our Reynolds Court house remodel, but we moved the design to the outside in order to link the inside and the outside for that true California-style indoor/outdoor living vibe.  The main feature will be a new pool, but there will also be a chicken coop to integrate, areas for…

The As-Hole-Built Series: As-Built Plan Confusion

Hello! And welcome to the As-hole-built series where we share our personal and wonderful experiences with doing as-builts. Here@HAYNE we are NOT a fan of as-builts but we DO understand how important they are so we do them and will continue to (insert crying emoji here). To bring some light into having to do as-builts,…