WORKING PHILOSOPHY
O.C.A. Architects Inc. is an architectural partnership, fully dedicated to design excellence. It is backed by solid technological expertise and a honed sensitivity to our clients’ needs; O.C.A. Architects Inc. offers the experience of a group of highly qualified professionals providing full and complete architectural services, including innovative yet contextual design, strong technical expertise and competent budget control at all stages until project completion.

We think that client relations, interaction and continuous communication is paramount to success in achieving a successful building project. We consider listening as pivotal to the process and central to the issue of providing service. We strive to have a rational approach to project design, where cost effectiveness is assumed as a fundamental part of the building’s functional requirements.

DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
O.C.A. Architects Inc. strongly believes that the design process is more than a simple arrangement of functional spaces resulting in a building form with arbitrary aesthetic qualities. The design process will integrate other important variables: interpretation of the institutional philosophy and needs of the Client; adoption of appropriate contextual responses to existing conditions; and ensuring a cultural continuity with the built and natural environment.

O.C.A. Architects Inc. is committed to limiting the size of its organization to a level that will allow direct “hands-on” involvement of its principals on each project. We will foster a high degree of professional dedication, personal attention and direct interaction between the Client and our architectural team.

We assign great importance to energy efficiency and strive to provide at the inception of the design a sensitive response to building siting, orientation, and use of appropriate materials and state of the art mechanical/electrical systems.