ABOUT

Presenting these home designs here has been a work in progress that has been idea a long time in the making. A place to create and make available thoughtfully designed livable homes that discard the rooms as boxes ideal and provide living environments for modern lifestyles and aesthetics.

Here at Planworks we provide sophisticated solutions to modern residential design, incorporating contemporary modern design influences to produce elegant architectural living experiences. For the discriminating contemporary homeowner who chooses quality over mass production, these modern designs are presented and prepared as inspirational starting points to provide a customized and personal design product.

By applying established and successful architectural techniques to residential design, the work produced here is timeless and encompasses the inherent design characteristics of traditional and modern elements of design to create well refined sculptural spaces for living.

Established in 1996, this is a boutique architecture practice specializing in quality residential projects. The practice was established in 1996 and since then we have worked on a number of multi styled project commissions in a range of locations across northwest Oregon and western Montana.

We are passionate about architecture, from small scale design to the wider context we work and live in, be it urban, rural or coastal. As well as designing new buildings we also believe in re-using existing buildings and creating additions and remodeling projects in a way that enriches the lives of its occupants while never losing sight of good planning and beautiful architecture.

We listen to our clients, and we are committed to providing architectural solutions that recognize project requirements, respond to the context of the site and deliver quality appropriate architecture. We work through all projects with a creative and well considered approach no matter how small or large.

Located in Hood River, Oregon in the beautiful Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, we have the opportunity to participate on a wide variety of projects and designs. Offering personalized custom design services and design-build project delivery, clients can receive a quality design experience and product. As an experienced Hood River Architect there is familiarity with the local planning departments and building officials to efficiently design and produce well designed and constructed projects.

Design Inspiration

Hopefully the home designs here will provide an upgrade in design quality to the multitude of suburbia oriented stock plans that most builders have been recycling in areas of urban sprawl for the past 50 years. Most discerning home owners have never had the experience of working on a design project with an architect and often people are not interested in the design process that is involved. However there are homeowners who long for something above and beyond the recycled plan book designs most often available and are yet daunted by the typical design and construction process associate with custom homes. Society has matured in recent times and people are starting to look for sophistication in product design and our environment, from kitchen utensils to urban planning and the way our cities are designed. As originally envisioned by the evolution of the modernistic design aspects during the development of the machine age at the turn of the 20^th century, Modern design has finally come of age. Modern contemporary design that is accessible and appreciated by many people, may have actually finally arrived and may finally be accessible to a wider scope of the population.

The modern home designs available here are envisioned as an opportunity to creatively design modern homes that are buildable and make contemporary well designed living environments more easily accessible to more people. For the discriminating contemporary homeowner who chooses quality over mass production, these modern designs are presented and prepared in ready to build document packages. By applying established successful architectural techniques to residential design, the work produced here is timeless and encompasses the inherent design characteristics of traditional and modern elements of design to create well refined sculptural spaces for living.

The benefits of proceeding through the customization options available in the custom design process are still available here however modern stock house plans offer an option that is growing in popularity.