Through Our Clients’ Lenses

Arcollab’s principals, Lori Bork Newcomer, Gabe Comstock, and Joe Smith, have been designing custom homes for clients for about fifteen years. We approach designing a home as a melding of the architect’s artistic expression and the client’s dreams within a specific contextual location to create a lasting contribution to the fabric of the surrounding community. We are deeply committed to designing spaces and structures that look beautiful and feel good, that function well, that provide comfort and pleasure to the occupants, that respect and engage their location, and that are healthy places in which to live. We care about the materials used, the way light moves through space, how air circulates, and how people live within their homes – including inside and outside spaces. Each project is designed as a one-of-a-kind – we do not replicate custom residential plans.

We often photograph our projects throughout the process of construction and when they are recently completed. This initiative, which we’re calling Through Our Clients’ Lenses, is an opportunity for us to reconnect with many of our past clients and explore architectural design from the perspective of our clients.

We have invited our clients (and in some cases, those who currently live in homes we designed for someone else) to share glimpses into the spaces and places of their homes that they appreciate for one reason or another. We have also asked them to briefly describe the images they send to us. What you will see and read in this blog series will truly be a reflection on Arcollab’s work as observed through our clients’ lenses. We hope that this will be interesting and fun for our clients, for us, and for others who visit our website and social media.

This spring, Arcollab is hosting Amanda Ochieng, a senior at Clarke Central High School in Athens, as a Young Dawg intern. Amanda is also enrolled at the University of Georgia while she wraps up her senior year in high school. As part of her internship with us, Amanda is helping to coordinate this Through Our Clients’ Lenses initiative.