Remodels | Adaptive Reuse | Interiors
for Families and Small Communities
At Unfolding Lines, we empower families and small communities to revitalize and transform their spaces.
We are dedicated to creating practical, flexible, and inspiring designs while helping families achieve their ideal living spaces and local businesses optimize their working environments.
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. -Michelangelo
Starting a renovation project is both exciting and overwhelming. You may dream about that beautiful sunny living room or a spacious kitchen. Just a few changes may help you and your family enjoy your house to the fullest, but how do you start?
You have a feeling that achieving your goals may be possible in your current house, avoiding moving and family disruptions, but is it feasible? How much is it going to cost? Do you need permits? How long will it take? What is the process? Is there another solution that fits your budget? Can you phase the work? Whom do you call first?
Would you build a house without a foundation?
Planning and professional architectural design are the real foundation for any successful project!
Services and Process
Strategy
Design - Detail
Build
Idea
Our work is divided in 3 phases:
Strategy, Design-Detail, and Build.
These phases cover the steps from the initial idea and pre-design to construction administration and Project Delivery.
The first phase is the Strategy, the foundation, and the first step for our services. After that phase is concluded, you may opt to continue developing your project with us until completion or continue on your own.
This allows you to have a clear path and direction for your project, with some ideas to fall back in case you have a change of heart during the project development. Then, whether you decide to complete your project with us or not, you will have a clear strategy, goal, and plan of action.
Strategy
Design and Detail
Build
This is the first step to identifying opportunities and constraints and developing a strategy and general action plan. This phase includes the initial consultation, programming, zoning analysis, feasibility, schematic design, and next steps outlines.
The goal for this phase is for you to have a clear path and a direction for your project. This is important to start establishing a construction and time budget. It is the roadmap for your development!
With a clear direction from the previous phase, we start developing the project, detailing, adding materials, and concentrating on the design. This is the main course; at the end, you will have construction documents and permit drawings.
This phase shows the design intent, details, specs, and the information needed to make it happen!
This is the construction phase.
Yes, having your architect involved during construction is to your best advantage.
At this point, we know the project well, and we stay around to answer questions from contractors and make recommendations based on the design intent.
Our goal? To see a smile on your face when you finally move in!
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About
Hello!
We are Unfolding Lines, a strategy-focused design studio located in Los Angeles, California.
Helping families and individuals achieve their renovation goals in a beautiful way while avoiding waste and redundancies is our reason to be. We combine our expertise with an early exploratory process to rule out inefficient paths and find the best layouts, combinations, ideas, and designs for our clients. There are always changes along the design process, however, by prioritizing the goals and the early direction, we can streamline the process and avoid further waste and redundancies.
Our mission is to make high-quality design services available to more families. We aim to achieve this by breaking our full architectural services into small packages that allow you to prioritize and concentrate on your most pending needs. We believe that flexibility is the key to good design, and we start by offering that same flexibility to our clients in the way we structure our services.
Citlalli Castillo is the Architect Principal.
She is passionate about design, materials, methods, and finding the extraordinary around us. Citlalli has over 15 years of architectural design experience and is a Registered Architect in California and Mexico.
Citlalli is also a mom, an aspiring clay and fabrics artist, and a hiking and biking enthusiast.