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Studio

BEYOND

Beyond Architecture is a studio for people who expect design and delivery to speak the same language—where coastal light, monsoon seasons, and dense urban parcels shape every decision we draw.

We take work from feasibility through issued documentation and interiors: coordinated drawing sets, specifications, visual studies, BIM-ready packages, and on-site coordination—so contractors price intent, not guesswork.

Housing, workplace shells, hospitality, and civic-adjacent commissions get the same discipline—candid reviews, explicit scope, and a finished building that still reads true to what you approved at the table.

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James Mwangi · Founding partner

Integrated practice

Design & consultancy

Concept through developed design stays one conversation: façades, plans, and interiors are shaped together so programme, climate, and long-term maintenance are settled before the scheme hardens. You review legible moves at each gate—not a surprise package at tender.

  • Feasibility and concept studies
  • Schematic and developed design
  • Interior architecture
  • Technical documentation
  • 3D visualization and design reviews
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Construction detail and structure on site

Planning & coordination

Consultants, budgets, and approvals stay in view while the set matures. Workshops, BIM-ready packages, and finishes schedules are issued so contractors price what was drawn—not a drift of late mark-ups and orphaned details.

  • Design development workshops
  • BIM-ready drawing packages
  • Specification and finishes schedules
  • Tender support and bid analysis
  • Site observation and RFIs
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Residential volume and controlled daylight

Construction delivery

Mobilisation, procurement, and commissioning run against the issued drawings and the agreed programme. Site leads hold sequencing, interfaces, and quality so what was priced is what gets built—and the thread from the drawing room never drops.

  • Residential and commercial build
  • Civil and infrastructure works
  • Site programme and logistics
  • Quality assurance and handover
  • Renovation and adaptive reuse
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Modern building façade and material rhythm

FROM

ConceptToCompletion

One legible sequence—from first agreement to handover—so intent survives every gate.

Office sequence — design stages

  1. 00

    Preconceptual studies

    A preparatory step that allows us to understand and document the needs and functions of a building in order to establish its scope.

  2. 01

    Project sketch

    This stage includes site examination, program review, initial design sketches, and a preliminary budget analysis.

  3. 02

    Preliminary project

    Once the sketches are approved, we develop the project in more detail, drawing up the necessary preliminary plans, sections and elevations.

  4. 03

    Final project

    This is the actual development of the technical plans necessary for the construction.

  5. 04

    Request for tenders

    We assist and advise the client in the analysis of bids from general contractors and the signing of the construction contract.

We do not separate “design” from “delivery.” The same discipline that fixes a section through a wall also signs off the mock-up and walks the slab pour.

Where useful, we model operational energy and embodied carbon early—not as a badge, but so envelope and structure choices stay defensible when value engineering arrives.

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At BEYOND architecture, OUR work is built on listening first—then drawings, then site. SKILLS stay sharp when THE office stays small enough to argue in the same room.

People

Directors & leads

Tap a row for a short note on how each lead plugs into the file and the site.

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Send your programme and your site—we reply with scope, timing, and a candid path from first conversation to delivery.