Our projects are contextual, authentic, and enduring. We create buildings with architectural integrity that is mindful of community impact and woven into the urban fabric.
The design does not appear as if it were built all at once. It appears as if created over time, naturally, and it is difficult to achieve that.
As masters of complex, urban mixed-use development and planning, we bring innovative design solutions to every project, enriching communities, and strengthening economies. We partner with and advocate for our clients at every phase. We address all aspects of a project—from obtaining entitlements and concept planning and design through production, construction, and project close-out—often extending to retail tenant planning and environmental graphic design. Our project approach is creative and pragmatic, relying on our in-depth experience and extensive project knowledge.
Well-established, yet young in spirit and enthusiasm, our firm ventures into a fourth collaborative decade with clients who choose us, trust us and get our absolute dedication.
Coastal Architects – formed 15 years ago as a partnership between Michael Sanchez and Jeff Zook with the intent of delivering professional architectural and design services with an emphasis on customer service. Mike Sanchez is a former Planning Commission for the City of Oxnard and Jeff Zook serves on the executive committee for the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Oxnard and Port Hueneme. Both Jeff and Mike have experience working with the City of Oxnard staff as consulting design architects at the Design Advisor Committee (DAC). In addition, both Mike and Jeff reside within the City of Oxnard limits, and the main office is conveniently located in downtown Oxnard.
We view each project as an opportunity to create a practical work of art. We call upon all our sensory resources, our formal training, and our practical experiences, in order to create new and innovative solutions to our client’s needs. We constantly challenge each other, our clients, and ourselves to produce projects of the highest standard.
We love to problem solve through good design. It’s what we were born to do. It’s what keeps us in the studio until all hours of the night, striving to achieve that perfect solution; to resolve a detail; to explore one more alternative; to make sure all options have been explored…in order to exceed our client’s expectations.
We feel it is a privilege to work with our clients to help them realize their dreams, their goals, their vision. We ensure that every client feels involved with the entire design process. Experience has taught us that healthy architect-client dialog not only creates successful projects but fosters long-term client relationships as well. Because successful projects are not measured by the accolades of our peers, but by the satisfaction of our clients.
Architecture has its own realm. It forms a symbiotic physical relationship with our individual daily lives. As a created element in our natural environment, architecture provides a tangible envelope or creative backdrop for the life which goes on in and around it; an inspirational container for the daily rhythm of footsteps, for the concentration of business, for the silence of sleep.
Design is the resultant marriage of creation and inspiration. It is the natural expression of a creative species. Created man must create; it is a self-fulfilling necessity. Form, color, and material should evolve out of necessity; out of context; out of artistic reason. The design should simultaneously respond to and contribute to its’ environment. Design is not a passive endeavor; it requires an emotional reaction and response. It requires us to lift our gaze from that which is comfortable or predictable to that which is inspirational; it should evoke an elevated sense of being.
A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which.
A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which.
A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which.
A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in the exquisite sense of mere tranquil existence, that I neglect my talents. I should be incapable of drawing a single stroke at the present moment; and yet I feel that I never was a greater.
With a rapidly aging population, an inward flux of new urban residents, and developmental pressures forcing displacement and homelessness on growing numbers of people, housing design finds itself at a critical nexus in the United States.
And while many architecture firms are surely working on innovative housing projects, few have dedicated teams focused on pursuing housing innovation from an integrated, transformational perspective. Coastal Architects exists to “explore new and emerging ideas related to building design and technology,” with an eye toward integrating new housing developments into their surroundings, re-thinking existing design paradigms, and prototyping cost- and time-saving construction approaches all the while expanding the realm of housing design to include co-living arrangements, contemporary senior housing models, and supportive housing.
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