Consulting
Endure starts at the scale of the question and follows the problem across disciplines. Individually reasonable decisions can produce a weak result when the interfaces between them go unread.
The four below are places to start, not boundaries.
Buildings
The building itself, down to the assembly. Endure reads drawings, systems, construction, and performance together, across existing conditions and proposed work.
Read more →Communities
How the systems governing a place produce what happens there. Endure reads the rules, the money, and access together, and the pattern they set between them.
Read more →Organizations
How an organization runs beneath the formal structure, at any point in its life. Endure reads an existing operation from the work itself to find what is setting the outcome, or sequences what a new one needs before it starts.
Read more →Sites
One place and what could happen there. Endure reads what is there, what is missing, what the site can carry, and what would have to be true for a given outcome to work.
Read more →Endure takes on decisions like these:
A wall is failing, and each party blames a different cause.
An addition to an old building, with a historic district to satisfy and a wall where new meets old.
Buildings →
Three empty buildings on Main Street, and a grant cycle that closes in the spring.
A street is about to be rebuilt, and parking and storefront access are being designed separately.
Communities →
A subcontractor up for award, and a prequalification file that says nothing about how it will run the job.
A trade to build a company around, and no idea what has to be filed first.
Organizations →
A corner lot, and a project that pencils at six stories and not at four.
A building on a lot where something larger is possible, and whether to keep it has not been settled.
Sites →
How Endure reaches a conclusion, and what it will not claim, is set out under Method.
Consulting sets the constraints and performance a design has to meet. Studio carries the perceptual and aesthetic choices within them.
Where the work turns out to need a licensed or credentialed professional, Endure says so, and works with the one already engaged, recommends one, or brings one in. On any engagement, Endure works for one party and identifies that party.