Almost everything that we built was created for women, because behind every man there is a woman. A wife or mother, daughter or beloved – each of them should live in a house convenient and ideal in her ideas. And I am pleased that we can organize work so that it is not exhausting for the client, and the repair time flies quickly and only with positive emotions!
Gleb Polonsky, leading architect of the architectural and construction company Face-Home
“The Internet increasingly fixes such a request as the“ Full Cycle Architectural Bureau ”. Your company is also a full -cycle bureau. What does it mean?
– The full cycle bureau is an architectural bureau with its own construction unit, that is, a company that works comprehensively – and designs and builds. The situation on the market has long been pushed to the demand for the integrated service, when customers received their interior in parts: first, architects worked out the project, and then construction teams were connected. So the responsibility was blurred, shifted from the architect to the builders, and for those – for various reasons, sometimes from an excess of “creativity”, and sometimes from the desire to alleviate the task – alternative sentences arose. And the project was “finalized”, often beyond recognition. Therefore, the understanding came that only the “release from some hands” will ensure a full through control over the object. And this is beneficial primarily to the client.
– And what exactly is this benefit?
– In time and money. When the object is controlled centralized, there are practically no puffs in terms of time. As for the money, it is even easier: we begin to consider it already at the design stage and move strictly within the framework of a given budget. Therefore, we do not have a situation when the architect developed a project, the builders made it outlined, and it turned out that the customer was not a pocket.
– For the client – yes, profitable. And why is the full cycle profitable for the company?
– “Growing” the construction unit is a natural form of development of the architectural bureau, because the function of control over construction is predetermined by the profession itself. We would hardly develop differently: the result is important to us, and it is we, and not the builders invited by the customer, “launch the mechanism” and control the object.
But construction is a troublesome business, so many architects are limited only to copyright supervision. We are interested in the complex: with this approach, we control everything, and as a result, the objects do not “freeze”, and the interior goes one into one with visualization and with an estimate. And the customer does not have to “change your shoes on the go” – get used to the fact that the house will not look like it was planned earlier, or to look for the missing money.
By the way, precisely because we work comprehensively, in our company there is no concept of “copyright supervision”: the architect accompanies the project at all stages of implementation, but as a separate service, customers do not pay for this.
– What do you see people who choose a full cycle?
– These are mature customers, those who have already experimented with brigades and know exactly where free cheese lies. They went through breakdowns of terms and manipulations with estimates, when specially not taken into account, work surfaces later and grow like a snowball (it would irritate me!). At the same time, such customers are very demanding on the aesthetic and technical sides of the project – they made several apartments and understand what a comfortable house is.
-And what, in your opinion, is it worth paying attention to when choosing a company?
-When choosing an architectural and construction company, there is an unspoken rule: first of all, cut off those who are lower than the market. And the second is a portfolio. It is important that in the portfolio there are not visualization, but photos of real objects, and that you like these objects.
– And who in family interiors more often determines the style, man or woman?
– I have never encountered a man to be determined with the style without female participation (with the exception of bachelors, of course). There are also many bachelor apartments in our portfolio, but for us they are objects “with a continuation”: as soon as the customer changes family status, our cooperation is resumed.
Thanks to women, delicate color combinations and replicas from classics appeared on the objects of our bureau. And although in the stylistic preferences of the man are more restrained, as you refuse the second half?
Portfolio of the Face-Home architectural bureau
