Christopher Architecture & Interiors Design Portfolio
Christopher Architecture and Interiors
2601 Highland Avenue South Birmingham, AL 35205
+1 (205) 413-8531 christopherai.com
Dear Brandon Roberson,
Thank you for your interest in Christopher Architecture and Interiors. We look forward to the opportunity of getting to know you more and to discuss your project.
Our approach to every project begins by listening to clients’ needs and aspirations. Through dialogue we can work with our clients to distill the essence of their project and craft unique design processes best suited to your goals and aspirations. Our mission is to inspire, create, nourish, and stimulate a broader appreciation for excellence in design.
Our team brings together a diverse mix of nationally recognized design talent and international design expertise. We can offer the best of both worlds – accessibility to senior leadership and strategic expertise supported by an agile and responsive delivery team. Our promise is to engage our gifts and abilities with passion, teamwork, and a commitment to excellence.
Christopher Architecture and Interiors has built a portfolio of work across a range of project typologies, complexities, and budgets. It is through this body of work we hope you will find evident our ability and commitment to design excellence.
We also have included with this letter some additional information on how CAI can contribute to your project. As our relationship matures we will continue to share more information about our firm and how we work. It is our hope that this project will guide and inform you prior to the start of the design process so that you know what to expect from day one.
We hope to be able to continue conversations with you and ultimately be part of the team that helps you realize the vision of your home.
Sincerely,
Chris Reebals
President & Principal Architect, AIA, NCARB, ICAA
info@christopherai.com
(205) 413-8531
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Who We Are
Christopher Architecture & Interiors (CAI) is a luxury design firm specializing in Custom Residential, Boutique Commercial, and Estate & Land Planning. We craft meaningful designs, striving for timeless beauty and elegance for our clients who desire an inspiring product and fully customized experience.
With an award-winning, multi-disciplined staff, we are uniquely qualified and passionate about creating transformative spaces. Our team members uniquely integrate across disciplines — architecture, interiors, and landscaping — to create a cohesive environment that reflects each client’s specific vision of living, work, and play. We believe a seamless blend of responsive architecture and thoughtful interiors beautifies our surroundings and improves our life experience. We find joy in collaborating with clients who are passionate about design and are dedicated to uncompromised excellence.
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How We Work
Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. Creating space to frame your life is a monumental process. Entering a room should evoke a response. When engaged in a project, we focus our combined passion and talent on crafting a curated environment for you and your family. We believe our approach is the best methodology for producing inspirational designs.
That is why our architects, interior designers, and professional consultants work hand in hand throughout the entire process. Working with a passionate clientele, highly skilled designers, meticulously vetted consultants, and discerning craftsmen, CAI is committed to excellence through teamwork.
Reasons to Consider CAI
• Award-winning design team
• A strict commitment to excellence
• Fastidious attention to details
• Impeccable documentation
• Comprehensive ecosystem
• Uniquely integrated architecture and interior design methodology
• Commitment to building enduring structures and lasting relationships
• Proven track record of adding value to the built environment
• Efficiency in deliverables and cost savings with integrated services
• Creation of investment-grade legacy projects
• Client Liaison throughout the project and beyond
• Customizable contract options
• Iterative Design Process
• Collaborative and Inclusive Client and Design Team Approach
Customized
Every project is as unique as your vision and the site it is built on. For this reason, we offer customized options based on the owner’s programmatic needs and requests. Typically, our design services integrate architecture, interior design, decorating and procurement. However, since each project is unique, we will tailor our services to meet your needs.
Collaborative Efficiencies
CAI’s collaborative approach provides not only a more cohesive product but also production and design efficiencies. Typically design firms handle the architecture and interior design components separately or at different phases, but we offer both services concurrently. By integrating, our end product is not only more symbiotic but our fees on average are 20% less than when offered separately. This specialized ability to provide a unified design approach enables CAI to ensure exceptional congruency in design, extreme efficiency of production, and unsurpassed results.
Interior Furnishings & Decor
To complete the design of your home, we encourage our clients to utilize our interior furnishings and decor services. Every project is customized to meet our clients’ needs and we work with you to establish budgets, timelines, and installations accordingly. By offering these services, we ensure furnishings and decor enhance the home’s overall design aesthetic.
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Architecture Offerings Due to the distinct nature of every project, we can offer a tailored experience to meet each client’s programmatic needs and requests. The following lists below offers insight into our service offerings. Incorporating all services will ultimately create the most unified design, but we can also provide architecture, interior design, decorating and procurement services independently. We are happy to discuss the most appropriate scope of services based on your project’s needs. Our Services • Client Briefing • Contractual Agreement • Site Inventory and Analysis • Regulatory Authority Coordination Master Planning and Feasibility Studies Architectural Programming Project Scheduling • Project Phasing • High Quality Design Presentations • Design Development Drawings Code Analysts Material Selection • High-end photo-realistic visualization services (Animations and/or still images) • Concept & Schematic Design • Consultant Engagement, Management and Coordination Project Budget & Cost Analysis Construction Documentation • Architectural Detailing • Material Specification • Building Information Modeling (BIM)
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Caribbean Resort Development
Our Services
Interior Architecture/Design Offerings
• Client Briefing
• Programming
Concept & Schematic Design
Project Budget & Cost Analysis
Project Scheduling
• Space Planning
• Mood Boards
• Design Development Drawings
• Electrical Plans and Lighting Layout
Interior Elevations
Cabinetry Design and Detailing
Interior Detailing
• Moulding Selections
• Plumbing Fixture Specifications
Appliance Specifications
Finish Selection and Scheduling
Decorative Lighting Selections
• Door & Cabinet Hardware Selections
• Consultant Coordination
• Shop Drawing & Submittal Review
• High-end photo-realistic visualization services
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Furniture Selection, Specification, and Curation
Custom Furniture Design and Manufacturing
Art and Accessory Packages Window Treatments Wallcoverings Rugs
Purchase Order Review
Procurement of Furnishings and Accessories
Installation of Furniture and Accessories
Photography Coordination and Styling Professional Photography (In-House or Out Sourced) Seasonal Decorating
Event Planning & Decorating
Our Approach
Christopher Architecture and Interiors’ approach to design emerged over 30 years ago and has been carefully refined since. Our process begins by acknowledging every project is unique and the design process needs to being with listening to our client’s needs and aspirations.
Following this distillation process, our experience has taught us that the best outcomes are achieved when our team carefully crafts the rest of that process to suit the goals and objectives of each project.
Design Excellence Client Engagement
Our team has been nationally recognized for excellence in design and firmly believes that every project offers unique opportunities to create exceptional creative outcomes.
Releasing Value Through Design
A home’s value is often evaluated by resale potential and not by how a project might unlock latent potential. Homes designed by a team of architects and interior designers can bring up to a 30% greater return on investment upon resale. However, value can mean different things to each person. Homes are where you spend most of your time. They are the place where you build memories, raise a family, laugh, and cry; where you find refuge and solace. Great design can transform, and it can translate value not just into resale, but also into life and family.
We believe the most authentic design outcomes emerge from fostering strong relationships between our clients and design team. Through developing an in-depth understanding, of not just a client’s needs and goals, but how they might live, we can design environments that are responsive to each individual.
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Client Inspired Design Focused Quality Driven
Professional Collaboration
Collaboration is the foundation of our process. Our architects and interior designers work closely with one another on all aspects of a project. When necessary, our team has built a network of talented and specialized consultants that can be tapped to provide additional layers of detail and design. We consider these consultants extensions of the design team that provide expertise in areas that enhance and compliment the architecture and interior design of each home. The collaborative nature of the process ensures that all systems and elements are intricately integrated to meet any need, no matter how unique or complex.
Harnessing Technology
Technology has rapidly evolved in recent years and so have our skills. Our approach has been to utilize technology to eliminate mundane tasks which enable our designers to focus on design. Design often is explored through more analog and traditional means, especially in the early stages. Our use of technology compliments this methodology by allowing us to gather information to inform design and subsequently document that design. Our team is equipped to rapidly execute design documentation as well as produce high quality visualizations and simulations.
Iterative Development
We believe that every idea with merit should be explored and evaluated. Our team is well positioned to explore numerous design solutions in a diligent manner. These studies are constantly evaluated, revised, merged and further developed. This ensures that every idea is scrutinized to the same degree, allowing the best option to rise to the top. Ultimately the solution is often an intricately woven representation of the thoughts of the entire design team.
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Our Team
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Liz Hyatt Architectural Project Manager
Corey Flowers Office Manager
Mason Cunningham Architectural Project Manager
Isabelle Buettner Project Designer
Emily Lopez Architectural Project Designer
Josh Adams Architectural Project Manager
Alex Harvill Architectural Project Designer
Ria Neill Design Director Sr. Architect, AIA, NCARB
Madi Gurley Project Designer, ASID
Chris Reebals President & Principal Architect AIA, NCARB, ICAA
Mack Braden Studio Operations Director Sr. Architect, AIA, NCARB
Brittany Noe Architectural Project Designer
Leigh Ann Harris Sr. Interior Designer RID, IIDA, NCIDQ
Emily Hurt Sr. Interior Designer, RID, NCIDQ
Carleone Posala Architectural Project Manager
Whitney Tingle Sr. Interior Designer RID, IIDA, NCIDQ
Project Index
Commercial Architecture & Interiors
– Armour & Co. Building
– Auburn University President’s Home
– Behavioral One
– BIG Communications
– Birmingham Country Club Renovations
– CAI Office Highland Park & Homewood
– Caliber
– Chickadee
– Domestique
– Harry & Sons
– Idelwild Flats
– In the Making
– Jefferson Title
– Event Center
– Linden Mixed Use Development
– Lofts on 15th
– Macedonia North Baptist Church
– Maplesville Methodist Church
– Martin’s BBQ
– MCA Holdings
– MDM Design Studio
– Patchwork Hotel
– Sevatec
– Swell
– Smart Skin
– Worx Headquaters
– Worx Columbiana
– White Dresses Birmingham
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Residential Architecture & Interiors
– Bonita Drive
– Caldwell Mill Road
– Canterbury Road
– Cross Ridge Road
– Dexter Avenue
– Kings Mountain Ridge
– Lucerne Boulevard
– Magnolia Ridge
– Mountain Brook Parkway
– Mountain Park Drive
– Old Brook Trail
– Old Looney Mill
– Overhill Road
– Pine Crest Drive
– Ridgeview Drive West
– Riviera Road
– Sheffield Lane
– Sunset Drive
– Dallas, TX
– Lake Logan Martin
– Lake Tuscaloosa
– Lexington, KY
– Nashville, TN
– Orange Beach, AL
– Pittsburgh, PA
– Smith Lake, AL
– Studio City, CA
– Tuxedo Park, NY
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Lake Logan Martin
Private Residence
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Auburn University
President’s Home
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Transitional Estate Private Residence
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Cabin Pool House
Private Residence
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Beach House
Private Residence
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Provincial Estate
Private Residence
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Caribbean Resort Development
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Traditional Estate Private
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Private Residence
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Birmingham 2601 Highland Avenue South Birmingham, Alabama 35205 (205) 413.8531
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Chris Reebals chris@christopherai.com
Mack Braden mack@christopherai.com
Ria Neill ria@christopherai.com
Emily Hurt emilyh@christopherai.com
Carleone Posala carleone@christopherai.com
Whitney Tingle whitney@christopherai.com
