Full Architectural & Interior Services

When architecture and interior design are managed as a single service, something changes in the quality of the outcome. The decisions that typically fall between two separate consultants — the profile of a reveal, the junction between a tile and a skirting, where a lighting circuit lands in relation to a piece of furniture — are made once, by the same people who made the building. The result is a project where everything holds together because it was always designed together.

Our full-service offering covers the complete scope from initial site analysis through to the final fitting of furniture and soft furnishings. This is how NATIVE Studio in Melbourne was delivered — architecture, interiors, joinery, specification and procurement managed as one continuous body of work, with no gap between the shell and the interior. It is also how our most resolved residential and hospitality projects are typically structured. Clients who engage this way get a single point of contact and a single design intelligence applied across every scale of the project.

The practical effect of this integration is that the design development phase is more efficient — we are not translating between two separate briefs or reconciling two sets of drawings — and the construction phase is more closely managed, because we understand every detail in the set. In Auckland and Melbourne, where the distance between design intent and construction reality can be significant, that close management matters.

What this includes

Initial site analysis, brief development and design strategy

Architecture concept design and schematic options

Interior concept design developed in parallel with architecture

Developed design documentation across all scales

Custom joinery design and documentation

Lighting design — architectural, task and decorative

Material, finish and fixture specification

Furniture selection and procurement

Soft furnishing and textile specification

Resource and building consent documentation

Tender and contractor procurement

Contract administration and site observation

Styling and final placement at completion

Defects review and handover documentation

Referenced project