Mission Statement
The primary mission of WMA is to ensure the client’s requirements and expectations are achieved through cost effective planning and design solutions.
Architectural Intent
Our main goal is to create a design that our client is happy with and proud to own. In our initial meetings, we will talk about overall building style, shape, and expectations for the design. We need our client’s input to help us shape our design. We use a three-dimensional modeling program that allows us, even in the schematic design phase, to create a 3-d model that can be spun around and walked through to get an idea of what the finished product will look like.
The technology utilized by WMA is cutting edge. We use a drawing program called Revit, which is a building information modeling system. This means that we create a three-dimensional model of each project. To compare this with other drawing programs, a typical project would be drawn in plan, and then interior and exterior elevations would be drawn to reflect the plan. Using Revit, we are actually building a three-dimensional model of the building when we put in a wall, door, window, floors, plumbing fixtures and casework. This means that when it comes time to draw the elevations, we can put a “camera” in a room and tell the computer to give us the elevation of a particular wall, and it creates it. It is like taking a photograph of the finished product. We have found that this is an invaluable design tool to actually put the end user in their desk and show them what everything is going to look like from where they sit. This tool is also extremely helpful in deciding overall building composition, materials, colors, and relation of our new building to the site and nearby buildings.
Using Revit, we end up with a better project and eliminate surprises from the end user, not to mention the efficiency and time saving aspects.
Firm Profile
WMA Architects / Planners, Inc. (WMA), located in Macon, GA, consists of an established team of architectural and planning professionals providing quality solutions for our clients. Our work in the functional design and planning of healthcare facilities addresses the combination of cost-effective and pleasing humane environments with demanding medical requirements.
Established by Joseph C. (Trey) Wood, III, AIA in 1985 in downtown Macon, Georgia. Since 1985, WMA has participated in the preparation of over 80 C.O.N. applications and supervised the construction of over 350 healthcare projects in 18 states.
WMA sets itself apart from other firms through our experience. WMA has been designing facilities for twenty-five years. We understand what is involved in creating a space to meet the growing and changing needs of your varied departments and staff to make their work as easy and fluid as possible. We also understand what it takes to design a space to treat the building as a whole, and a representation of who you are as a community.
WMA has a great deal of experience designing within a given budget. We are skilled at designing to the needs and wants of a facility while prioritizing to ensure the product is the best suited for the end user and is most responsible with the owner’s funds.
In a profession such as architecture, every project goes through a metamorphosis, and we are accustomed to making changes in a project. No project goes from schematic design phase to construction documents without some changes. We are willing to work with our client to ensure that the end result is what they want.
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