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Existing buildings
Structures that must be extended, re-purposed or strengthened. We survey what is there, establish what it can carry and design the intervention.
01Scope
What's included
- 01Condition surveys
- 02Structural assessment
- 03Retrofit and strengthening
- 04Vertical and horizontal extensions
- 05Change of use
02How we work
Five stages, one team accountable for all of them.
You deal with the same principal from the first site visit to handover. No handoffs between offices, no structure designed after the fact.
We visit the site, read the survey and agree scope, programme and fee in writing.
Massing, layout and structural concept developed together, so the scheme is buildable from day one.
Design development, coordination with specialists, and submission for approvals.
Architecture and structural documentation the contractor can build from without guessing.
Supervision of architecture and structure through construction, until handover.
03Related projects
Projects
All projects
BuiltDigitain asked for more than a refurbishment. The brief was to keep an existing building in service as the core of a new headquarters, add floor area above and beside it, and give the whole a single, confident identity on a busy Yerevan corner.
The structural work started with the existing frame: surveying what was there, establishing what it could still carry, and deciding where new structure had to take over. The extension is designed to work with the original building in Yerevan's seismic conditions rather than simply sit on top of it.
Architecturally, the curved glazed corner and banded façade tie old and new volumes into one composition. The building is complete and occupied.
Aghveran is one of Armenia's best-known mountain resorts. This project reconstructs and extends the Ararat Resort hotel among the pines.
Working with an existing hotel means assessing the original structure before anything new is drawn. The extension is planned so that guests keep a calm, low-rise resort while the hotel gains rooms and facilities.
Have a project in mind?
Tell us about the site, the brief and the timeline, and we'll get back to you.