We’ve built a reputation for excellence through a balanced commitment of quality design and personal service. Our most inspiring work has been when we collaborate with clients that share our passion for design and want to create homes and buildings tailored to their needs and fit within their environment. Sketchline’s services integrate architecture, interior design and element design through a collaborative, coordinated and cohesive process. We are fortunate to work with extraordinary clients, organizations and individuals with ambitious ideas. This has developed into a process and design approach that values collaboration with clients, consultants, builders and designers. Great design comes from the synthesis of many ideas. Each of the collaborators in the design process can have a meaningful part in balancing the client’s goals of aesthetics, functionality and finance.
About
Approach
Collaboration is at the core of everything we do. Our approach relies on a synergy between our clientele and the design team to produce inspirational designs. Listening to our client, studying the site and analyzing the client’s project budget always preempt sketching ideas. All our designs are the product of understanding the goals and the desires of each client. By employing careful analysis and excellent planning, each design by Sketchline Architecture incorporates the needs and desires of each client in an elegant, imaginative and captivating solution. Our design work only begins when we fully understand the client’s goals. Our design process breaks down, fundamentally, into three major phases:
Schematic Design: In this phase we listen to the client. We work to balance the client’s goals of aesthetics, functionality and finance. In collaboration with the client, we will produce a program of spaces within the home or building. We will study the site to include full zoning code analysis and reviewing any architecture review board requirements, if applicable. We will develop design concepts and ideas that will be hand sketches and computerized drawings depicting floor plans, elevations and unique features.
Design Development: This phase takes the work and decisions made in Schematic Design and starts to fine tune the design to conform to the client’s goals and budget. It is also during this time that we work with clients to select interior and exterior materials, finishes, fixtures, lighting, as well as coordinating with interior design professionals, contractors and landscape architects.
Construction Documents: Since most of the major decisions have been determined at this point, we start the process of construction drawings and specifications to give the design the technical knowledge to communicate design intent and for the purposes of construction.
Services
Sketchline Architecture provides a full range of architectural services to include:
- Site selection and analysis
- Feasibility studies
- Project scope and program consultation
- Budget analysis
- Coordinating regulatory agency approvals
- Schematic design
- Design development
- Construction drawings and specifications
Team
David E. Harwood, AIA is principal and owner of Sketchline Architecture, PLLC. David serves as Principal-in-Charge of each project and is responsible for setting the overall design direction within the firm. David’s background includes architectural work in the fields of residential design, retail, office and distribution, civic design, land planning and master planning. A North Carolina native, David and his family moved to Blowing Rock, NC in 1999 and enjoy everything about living in the Blue Ridge Mountains. David is active in his community having served on many boards and committees. Elected in 2019, David is honored to serve as a member of Blowing Rock’s Town Council.
David E. Harwood is a registered architect and is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture
North Carolina State University, College of Design
Bachelor of Architecture
North Carolina State University, College of Design
Adrian Tait is a Project Designer at Sketchline Architecture, PLLC.
Originally from Western Pennsylvania, Adrian and his wife Heidi moved to Western North Carolina in 2005. Adrian completed a graduate program in building science from Appalachian State University and shortly afterward started a small business focussed on designing small, affordable, high performance homes. He has experience in green building certification programs, structural engineering, and enjoys helping clients visualize their projects with state of the art technology. Adrian lives in Boone with Heidi, their son Rowan, and three crazy cats.
Bachelor of Science in Communications
Clarion University of PA
Master of Arts – Building Science / Appropriate Technology
Appalachian State University
Tony M. Dienst is a Project Designer at Sketchline Architecture, PLLC. Tony is a talented project designer with previous experience that includes custom home design with all phases from pre-design to construction. Tony is involved in all phases of the design and building process with a particular expertise and focus on the firm’s visual communication needs—developing both computer-generated imagery as well as traditional hand drawn sketches. When not at work, Tony enjoys spending time with his family and cycling winding mountain roads.
Tony is an intern-architect and is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
Bachelor of Science in Building Sciences with a concentration in Construction Management
Appalachian State University, College of Fine and Applied Arts
Master of Architecture
The University of Tennessee, College of Architecture + Design
Daniel Farmer is a Project Manager at Sketchline Architecture, PLLC.
Bachelor of Science in Building Sciences with a concentration in Architectural Technology and Design
Appalachian State University, College of Fine and Applied Arts