We do not design areas. We design volumes.
Gross floor area is a contract convention. A building is something else: it is the space between the walls. The clear height of a living room, the void over the stair, the span of a hall, the atrium that ties three floors together.
Each of these takes the same design work, the same calculations, the same coordination. None of them shows up in square metres.
That is why we work in euros per cubic metre. The world we build in has three dimensions. The fee should count all three.
The difference between the two is the 4.2 m high living room and the void over the stair. In square metres it is invisible. In the design it is not.
What we do
Design · ConsultancyGeneral design
From concept to construction details: permit, technical and detailed design. Every stage through BIM, handed over in IFC.
Discipline coordination
Structure, services, roads, utility networks — federated into one coordinated model, with clashes resolved before site.
BIM consultancy
OIR, EIR and BEP to ISO 19650, responsibility matrix, use case identification, CDE implementation.
Restoration and heritage
Existing-condition model from point clouds, intervention studies, museographic conversion and interactive VR walkthrough.
Fire safety
Fire safety strategy and approval documentation, checked directly on the model.
Parametric architecture
Geometry driven by rules and scripts: façades, envelope, variants generated and compared.
Site selection consultancy
Checking development potential before purchase: planning rules, achievable volume, orientation, access.
Interior architecture
Fit-out, furniture and finishes from the same model, with renders and quantities kept in step. Not contracted separately.
Estimate the cost of your project
Seven variables · result in EUR/m³We want to work with tools and use cases we are still exploring. If your project takes us there, we pay part of the learning ourselves: the more emerging the mix, the lower the rate.
Design effort does not grow linearly with volume. The rate per cubic metre falls as the volume rises.
At one end you have already decided everything and we draw what you set out — that takes rounds of revisions and costs more. At the other you let us look for the better option: eight years of study and twelve of practice work faster when they are not held back.
Every additional use case means time, know-how and further checking. See what each one covers.
The coefficient follows the ranking of GDP per capita by county (Eurostat, 2023), compressed — the design market does not divide along the raw productivity ratio. Internal BITa estimate, normalised to Bucharest = 1.00; adjusted at offer stage.
The gap between the two ends comes from how many disciplines enter the model and how complex the coordination is: a house with standard services is not comparable to a production hall or a hospital.
For a real fee figure we recommend a consultation meeting before the offer — 130 EUR/hour, deductible from the fee if we sign. We help you choose the right use cases and we work out the complexity of the project together.
We do not add much here.
Taken together, the four variables ask for little of what we are good at. For work like this a conventional practice will be faster and cheaper, and our rate is not justified. The estimate still stands, but tell us if the brief can be opened up — that is where we become useful.
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An indicative estimate, not an offer. The final figure depends on the brief, the site and the stages contracted. Prices exclude specialist interior design and reflect the level of detail and information required at technical design stage.