what's up guys Marcella Rey here today I'm going to meet Jason
he is the architect responsible for the renovation of my apartment
if you are looking for a very professionally and competent architect I definitely recommend him
I will leave his contacts in the description below
he just opened a new office
let's meet him and ask him a few questions about his career
and his new projects
let's go there
hey Jason, how are you?
great, how are you?
good
Come on in
excuse me
nice place you have here
thank you very much
can you show it a little bit?
yeah, absolutely
I chose architecture unconsciously so it started it of
as a child I had video games that would be placement of furniture and designing houses and
designing office spaces whatever came to my mind but that's just
an alternative to a video game that I use when I was a child
l and then I materialized into college eventually
and fascination with science and physics and led to an engineering background
so I started of college in engineering and civil mechanical engineering and gotten
a civil mechanical engineering and then I moved from there to architecture so I needed a
bit more creativity than engineering was allowing so I moved to architecture
started my degree to architecture and then ultimately finished that with the passion
I had creativity I had the fascination for physics all kind of stuff with it
so it was a nice combination of both
and then through architecture
I got into construction because not only do I want to see
my projects being designed but I need to see being built
right now there are a big disconnect
in the industry where architects are designing projects but not actually
getting to see them built or knowing that fact is they're gonna be built so
I wanna to be able to combine both so be able to design and build
and ultimately followed the historic turn my master builder which is being able to do both designing and build projects
probably would be a project that I did it for a development company
mmm, it was a multiple unit townhome building
that we designed and built
so that was a project that started of from sketch of townhomes and community center and marina
and developed into full occupied townhome community
so that was probably my most important job of my career so far
so the projects I am working on right now
I slightly scattered so we have projects that range from
custom townhomes in Victoria Park area to custom homes in the Rio Vista area
and we have all sorts of projects from large to small we have one that's kind unique right now we are doing
which it's converting a horse stable into a guesthouse / man cave
and so that's kind of unique project that you don't get to work on every day
and then we have a couple renovations going on
like I mentioned before the my personal home which we are really excited about this
very unique project
and then we're working on projects right now that
are going to start change the direction that company, one of them
is a boutique hotel on the west coast of Florida that we're going to be designing and building
that's a big undertaking that's really shape the company in a unique way
and than we are also working on a very unique project in Miami
which is an in essence a playground for adults and for children
where you can bring children into the facility and let them play on
like a jungle gym very large scale like forty or fifty thousand square feet
and also be a bar sitting at the same time that is a unique challenge for us
to have a bar and children's play area combined in one space to figure out all that program works together so
so the motivation to open this office
has been a part of my vision since day one since the idea of opening my own company came to me
so I knew that since the beginning
as far as when I was ready to do it
got to the point in business where the company slowed in growth
and it needed a push and it wasn't slowed in growth because of the availability of projects
it was slowing growth because of my capacity to keep up with the projects
as far as man power and as far as a space and as far as
representing in the product that I was trying to give to my clients
and so the only way that image could really manifest would be to have a space where I can host clients
and showcase our style which you'll see, I am assuming, in this video a little bit
the showcase our style our attention to detail our unique characters of
of design and of construction of management and also to have a beautiful place that
we can have team members working together
and feel comfortable ultimately the goal of this office is to create a living room
life environment where nobody really felt like there so much in an office
as they were a living room or lounge type of setting to keep
everything is light as possible music playing not typical office
setting with fluorescent lights in and cold air blowing in you
and your girlfriend supports you
she does she's very supportive
and pretty compassionate about what I'm doing she's helping me doing
she is a big part of this whole thing which I'm grateful for
and she actually works in the industry so she understands all that goes into this whole thing
so thank you
so my tips for people that want to start a project renovation new construction
any sort of a construction project
would be to just be vulnerable in the sense that you need to put yourself out there
don't hesitate to call an architect don't hesitate to call us
don't hesitate to call anybody that has any sort of insight in this industry
it's a lot that goes into this whole process so you just might get started
get started there's no harm there's no commitment in putting your ideas on paper
so just kind of figure out what you want
to figure out what wanted lead
needs to happen and it's write things down and then
reach out to a couple professionals and start talking start the process
my basic advice would be just be opened the more information you give from the very beginning
the better product you'll get ultimately
thank you for having me here Jason
thank you for coming
and nice new office, congratulations
thank you
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