Your role as a senior contributor on the Architecture team is to work independently and collaboratively to assist clients through the planning and creation award-winning designs. Your experience ensures that you are quite familiar with construction plans, specifications, estimates and building codes. You will be innovating and creating new prototypes designed with sustainable products with green architecture sensibility as your goals. You will lead the development of integrated design proposals, continuous updating of a building information model, preparing a variety of output / drawings throughout the project, while leading and mentoring others and collaborating with team members to contribute to the final deliverables as required under instruction from the Project Leader.

Your Team

The Vancouver Healthcare Studio is looking for a key team member that has experience in health care design and clinical planning with various project types, scales and complexity.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for projects of medium to large complexity/size.
• Inspires creativity, critical thought and design excellence both internally and externally.
• Conceptualizes a building design from both a functional and aesthetic perspective in concert with a client’s requirements, budget and program.
• Develops a design through sketches, physical models, electronic models, diagrams, massing studies, and other visual formats to express the design intent and communicate to project team, client, and building user groups.
• Utilizes BIM technologies in development of three dimensional models of buildings and their components.
• Participates in design critiques and pin-ups.
• Presents the design to stakeholders during early project phases. Develops building design in accordance with cost parameters.
• Develops space planning, block planning, and adjacency diagrams in coordination with building program.
• Evaluates and selects building systems and materials.
• Coordinates building systems to ensure compatibility with the design intent.
• Implements sustainable design principles into the design and environment.
• Analyzes site incorporating geotechnical, hydrological, environmental, social, economic and contextual conditions.
• Participates in development of the program and other pre-design efforts.
• Ensures that design intent is maintained through documentation and construction.
• Responsible for leading others in project team setting and design critiques and pin-ups.
• Participates in employee performance reviews and interviews of potential employees.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Ability to engage in creative and critical thought.
• To produce design at a level that would be perceived externally as excellent.
• To hand sketch and communicate concepts and ideas to others effectively.
• To participate in project team setting.
• To lead one or more teams on medium size projects through the development of design concept.
• To check work of others for accuracy and completeness, and manage team to meet project budget and schedule.
• To interpret sketches, drawings, codes, building program and other similar material.
• To present abstract ideas to the client and client representatives.
• To apply accessibility codes, applicable building codes, and life-safety codes to a wide variety of project scopes and complexity.
• General knowledge of building construction systems, constructability, materials, and industry associated standards.
• Good understanding of the relationship between drawings and specifications.
• Requires understanding of Microsoft Office Suite, Revit, AutoCAD,Abobe Creative Suite, SketchUP, Recent modeling software; Prefer experience with 3D Printer, Laser cutter.

Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Architecture or related field & Registered Architect. Minimum of 7-8 years of experience.