COMPANY BACKGROUND
Who we are?
The office of Contavelis Architects , was established in 1957.
Nicolas Paul Contavelis, a senior partner since 2006, has extensively practiced in the USA and England with Gensler and STV.
Several projects have included collaboration with international architectural firms.
What we do?
The work of Contavelis Architects has designed number of prestigious Architectural/ Interior Design/Management projects throughout the Middle East, United Kingdom, United States, and Moscow.
Contavelis Architects provides turn-key project management services for a wide range of projects, including residential, commercial offices, resort, and hotel design.
The design of high-quality buildings and interiors for end-user clients is our primary business.
Our team addresses the imperatives of resiliency, well-being, and technology and their influence in the built environment through a human-centric design approach.
DESIGN PROCESS
What is our vision?
We collaborate with our clients to learn together and develop user-centered solutions that are effective, meaningful, and delightful.
What is the ultimate space that we want to achieve taking into consideration the psychological aspect that stimulates an emotional response.
We need to understand how the engagement of our senses in architectural space influences our emotions, behavior, and health itself.
What is our design strategy?
Our work strategy-based design is an iterative approach that leverages the best of human-centered design, and design thinking.
We begin every creative challenge with a Discovery phase, where we identify the problem, prepare and conduct research, and gather inspiration from a
wide range of sources.
From here, we enter a Define phase, where we tell stories, find patterns, and frame early opportunities for design.
Once articulated, we brainstorm possibilities and develop our ideas, conceptually and concretely.
Finally, once we are aligned on a way forward, we Deliver by refining our work through to completion.
Philosophy
We believe that design is an all-encompassing responsibility.
We practice what has become known as Evidence-Based Design and Environmental Psychology.
We seek to design spaces that stimulate an emotional response in the brains of inhabitants and visitors.
The exploration of how the human mind will respond to the built environment is a major factor of our design approach.
We need to understand how the engagement of our senses in architectural space influences our emotions, behavior, and health itself.
