Company Profile
Owens Architects is dedicated to designing buildings that create good function and inspiring beauty while demonstrating fiscal accountability and good earth stewardship.
Our goal is to provide the highest level of professional service to institutional, commercial
and residential clients that desire beautiful and durable buildings which can be built
within the constraints of their construction budgets. Human needs design is the principle
basis of our design philosophy.
Jeff Owens as principal has had a diverse internship leading up to licensing in 2002. This
pre Owens architects architectural training during employment with some prominent
firms in Kentucky provided a variety of commercial projects and institutional project
experience with a broad range of project budget constraints. This work was preceded by
13 years of experience in the design build of custom single family homes including hands
on construction work in most all trades, which has proven to be an invaluable source in
understanding the construction and detail process.
The driving force behind the creation of Owens architects was the desire to take on a
limited number of jobs at any one time and provide continuity of leadership for each
project. This continuity of leadership from project beginning to project completion ensures
that our commitment to design excellence and technical integrity affects every
detail.
The small firm Owens architects advantage.
Continuity... As a small firm with low overhead our team is permitted the luxury of time to
remain intimately involved as lead designer throughout the design build process.
Efficiency in decision making...Jeff Owens is the lead designer on all projects and as the
principal of the firm accountability is clearly and exclusively established with the clients. Faster
results for the client are just one of the advantages of the small firm.
Value...The small firm structure maintains a low overhead cost resulting in the client’s budget
for professional fees invested into more experienced professional hours devoted to the project.
Detailing for beautiful durability... Building and construction experience has resulted in
an informed designer with a clear understanding of the realties of the construction process and
a healthy respect for long term effects on the components and assemblies required to create a
space designed to meet human needs and minimize maintenance cost.
Design build... Owens architects has experience and welcomes this method of teaming for
success with a group of design professional and contractors to ensure that the design exceeds
the program needs while maintaining a balance between budget and construction market
realities.
Technology... Our developed techniques and computer based tools make the process of model
based design a reality. This allows for the professional to control the design in a single three
dimensional (3D) model of the design and then extract the required basis for the contract
documents from this central source. This allows for the reduction in staff required to produce
these documents while allowing the design professional to be in control of the design.
Design concerns tested...These computer based tools allow for a flexibility and cost effective
approach to ensure that all concerns expressed by the client can be studied and confirmed
through people friendly models, drawings, and images.
Tools for effective capital campaign... The model based design technologies allows for
visual content that can be implemented to cerate and maintain excitement about a project from
early design proposal on to the final crafted design solution. The goals set by a capital campaign
committee are adopted as our own and we provide graphic design and production help for
distribution of documents that can help catalyze the financial commitment of the funding community.
Send for a CD and DVD of examples for all visual content.
Environmental stewardship...Owens architects is striving to make a contribution with
every design opportunity to conserve and help maintain the worlds resources and to promote a
healthy living environment for our children. Jeff Owens is a Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design (LEED) accredited professional this is a system of tested design strategies that
can be employed during the design and construction process to create a more environmentally
friendly construction process and structure. These strategies are employed with careful consideration
in regard to the constraints of the budget and principally include, but are not limited to,
the following:
Utilize wherever possible on site renewable resources and energy to provide for the
spiritual and practical human needs, thereby integrating the nurturing qualities of natural
light and ventilation.
Minimize the importation of off site resources, labor, and energy thereby creating buildings
of higher quality that are cost efficient.
Exterior building envelope and building systems balance that result in quality human
needs environment that is energy and thus cost efficient.
Control the introduction and assimilation of toxins in buildings. Maximize indoor air
quality and occupant health.
Link the greatest possible set of community concerns, criteria, and needs into the most
efficient and effective assembly of building components.
Our residential design experience prepares us well for detailing and implementing a human
needs quality into all our commercial and institutional spaces and projects.