Comet Studios, a dynamic consortium of professionals, offers full design services to residential clients, real estate developers and builders.

We also offer subcontract support to architects, interior designers, real estate developers, and builders.

We appreciate this opportunity to introduce our Planning and Design services to you. Following are some highlights of services we offer incorporating client involvement:

Economical, efficient and personalized attention to all phases of site planning, architectural design and construction documentation is easily achieved over the Internet. Internet communication offers an unique opportunity to share ideas and images instantly with clients. As a result the design process is much faster and more responsive to client needs and directives. All our projects have a private web site (see our client project web site) that offers an opportunity to share design development with clients and consultants. Comet Studios also offers conventional communication via telephone and postal service to non computerized clients.

After our clients provide us with their program of dreams, desires, budget and project information (via the completed Comet Studios Workbook), our team of professionals can quickly provide creative conceptual design proposals and alternatives for client review and comment. Even at this early stage, using state of the art computers and CAD software, we create three dimensional project models of buildings and site that are stored in a comprehensive and consistent database. This data base forms the foundation for a design process that easily incorporates changes and grows with the project. From the data base, coordinated "still images" like plans, elevations, sections & renderings can be extracted quickly to be viewed electronically at the client web site or printed. Navigable QuickTime VR movies can also be easily created to help clients visualize their project. Designing a project this way offers clients more interactive involvement in the design process while at the same time allowing us to concentrate most of our time on the creation of the project rather than on just drawings of the project.

After clients have reviewed the proposed conceptual design and design options, we meet with them to hear and discuss their comments and suggestions. Design development offers a ongoing opportunity for this kind of review and client feedback. The result is a healthy project responsive to client needs and desires.

For our computerized clients we offer an environmentally friendly "Intranet" telecommunication feedback opportunity as well as meetings at our office or onsite. Project documents and files are easily transferred over the Internet as E-mail attachments or through an FTP application, offering to clients a convenient opportunity to review the project. After project review, with a "paint" program, clients can add "redline" suggestions to the documents before returning them to Comet Studios as revised files. After Comet Studios receives the revised files, design objectives and client review are clarified during teleconference meetings to determine what revisions should be incorporated into the project.

With the ArchiCAD software our firm uses, all project information is stored in a single integrated file. Project documents such as plans, details, bills of materials and renderings stay coordinated and up to date throughout the process of creating design documents and working drawings. This allows for last minute changes and saves our clients time and money while at the same time assuring better quality control and project coordination. Even changes required during construction can be created quickly and coordinated with unparalleled accuracy.