Our Design Process
What do you want? What do you see? What do you need? Our services are based on your vision. Tell us how you would like to develop your property. A list of goals, pictures, or online idea portfolios all can help us understand your vision.
Master Planning
Quality design is individual to each project. Designs should enhance value and increase equity while respecting costs. Successful design must also satisfy your unique functional and living needs. Master Planning is a high level, global overview of the project goals and options. Our staff will present more than just one design to suit your needs. Options in design can include:
Presentations and critiques of multiple possibilities
Refining room sizes and organization
“Right-sizing” the wish list and budget
Weighing benefits of different alternatives
By considering options, combining alternatives, and refining the balance of decision making, the design becomes clear and the best alternatives surface.
Visualizations and 3D Renderings
As the design process takes shape, we can provide detailed sketches or 3D renderings to help you visualize the end product. For example, when a client is considering different roofing or exterior siding, Y&B can provide what’s know as a materials study. This helps our clients understand how colors and textures can come together in their final design.
Architectural Detailing
Some projects demand an exceptional level of quality, detail, and coordination. Our firm has the experience to visualize, design and execute fine architectural detailing as it applies to exacting demands. This can include:
architectural highlights
roof eaves
crowns and moldings
exterior cast trim
carved stone
stairways and railings
floor patterns and finishes
cabinetry
tile layout
wrought iron
Green Building Practices
Young and Borlik Architects is committed to promoting and incorporating sustainable design and building practices in all of our projects. The benefits of sustainable design include:
Longer lasting, higher quality, and lower maintenance buildings.
Improved indoor air quality and health.
Using energy, water, and natural resources wisely and responsibly.
Providing long term economic value.
Reducing our impact on the environment.
Young and Borlik Architects was awarded the Town of Atherton’s Green Building Award in recognition of environmental leadership in green building practices.
This modern farm house featured:
Solar water heating and photovoltaic panels
Integrated hydronic heating and ventilation systems
Preservation of existing mature landscape
Site planning, home orientation, and natural lighting
Material technologies; trusses, engineered lumber, fly-ash concrete, waterproofing, etc.
High-efficacy LED lighting
Low VOC paints and coatings
A combination of Tesla roof tiles and conventional solar panels produce much of the energy for this all-electric home.