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Cape Town,Western Cape,South Africa
vivid architects
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vivid architects is an established award winning design practice that concentrates predominately on medium to large scale commercial developments both locally and internationally. vivid architects takes great pride in providing a holistic and comprehensive professional service delivering appropriate and cost effective architectural solutions within the strict parameters of client brief, economic realities, programme and budget.vivid architects believes firmly in the ethic and importance of a team based philosophy throughout the design and implementation process and encourages close collaboration of all the disciplines involved. The practice focuses on encouraging transparent and open communication within the studio as a way of actively ensuring the successful transfer of the skills base that is constantly being researched and developed.vivid architects adheres to a design philosophy that expresses in its architecture an appropriate response to site, context and first principles of passive design as well as appropriate technology and material specification. The resultant form is an architecture that is timeless, elegant and well proportioned. Human scale and comfort for the end user is also an essential design informant.vivid architects was founded in 1998 by Paolo Viotti and Trevor Versfeld. Imraan Ho-Yee joined the practice as a partner in 2000.vivid architects is committed to a sustainable built environment and encourages clients to consider achieving a minimum Green Building Council (GBCSA) 4 star or best practice rating for their buildings.vivid cares is an initiative that focuses on making a difference The practice will be focusing on support for various charities of choice, green and sustainable practice management as well as educational opportunities and skills development within the practice and at tertiary educational level for previously disadvantaged students.