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Inscape Studio is a collaboration of individuals dedicated to creating innovative, contemporary architecture that is socially responsible and environmentally sensitive. Our goal is to improve the quality of life for people by improving the places we inhabit.

As designers, we have the potential to inspire change within communities. Taking a triple-bottom-line approach, Inscape Studio treats each project as an individual design challenge that’s part of a greater system, with an impact that extends outward affecting other places and people as ripples in a pond.

With projects covering a range of scales, building types, and budgets, Inscape Studio maintains a consistent approach of a collaborative design environment that allows for a recursive interaction of knowledge and ideas, with the belief that better results come from a collective thought process.

Social Enterprise Architecture Firm

Create schematic design drawings and renderings to establish the vision for the project and procure project cost estimates.

Develop the schematic design drawings to create the construction documents, necessary to obtain a building permit and build the project.

Assist our clients in negotiating a contract for construction with the chosen contractor, while monitoring the permit process.

Represent our clients throughout construction to ensure successful completion of the project.

Facilitate envisioning exercises to understand the character and needs of our clients, which in turn leads to the creation of a project program.

Pre-Design Schematic Design

PartnerFundraising

Technical Drawings

Permit Filing/ Contract

Proposals

Construction Administration

Assist nonprofit clients in leveraging our designs to raise the funds for construction.

Inscape Publico is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit architecture firm whose mission is to provide professional architecture services for other nonprofits and the people they serve. We are the only nonprofit architecture firm in the Mid-Atlantic region of the US and though we primarily work in the greater Washington, DC Metropolitan Area, we serve communities nationwide and internationally.

Inscape Publico jumpstarts nonprofit projects by providing valuable envisioning sessions and schematic design services for reduced fees. The schematic design packages which Inscape Publico provides to our nonprofit partners are powerful tools used to leverage and expedite millions of dollars of funding, which results in the design solutions being turned into bricks and mortar solutions, ultimately allowing our nonprofit partners to better fulfill their missions.

Our 2015 impact:

1,900+ hours of pro bono architecture services provided to nonprofit partners annually

14,000+ people benefitting from the services provided to nonprofit partners annually

$7 million+ funding our nonprofit partners raised by leveraging our designs

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Create schematic design drawings and renderings to establish the vision for the project and procure project cost estimates.

Develop the schematic design drawings to create the construction documents, necessary to obtain a building permit and build the project.

Assist nonprofit partners in negotiating a contract for construction with the chosen contractor, while monitoring the permit process.

Represent nonprofit partners throughout construction to ensure successful completion of the project.

Professional architecture services offered to nonprofits at significantly reduced fees based on need, typically discounted 70-80%.

Professional architecture services offered at market rate fees. Nonprofit partner may proceed withInscape Studio or another architecture firm.

Inscape Publico Social Enterprise Model

Facilitate envisioning exercises to understand the character and mission of our nonprofit clients, which in turn leads to the creation of a project program.

Assist nonprofit partners in leveraging our designs to raise the funds for construction.

Pre-Design Schematic Design

PartnerFundraising

Technical Drawings

Permit Filing/ Contract

Proposals

Construction Administration

Pyramid Atlantic Art Center (Hyattsville, MD)

Create schematic design drawings and renderings to establish the vision for the project and procure project cost estimates.

Develop the schematic design drawings to create the construction documents, necessary to obtain a building permit and build the project.

Assist nonprofit partners in negotiating a contract for construction with the chosen contractor, while monitoring the permit process.

Represent nonprofit partners throughout construction to ensure successful completion of the project.

Facilitate envisioning exercises to understand the character and mission of our nonprofit clients, which in turn leads to the cre-ation of a project program.

Assist nonprofit partners in leveraging our designs to raise the funds for construction.

Pre-Design Schematic Design

PartnerFundraising

Technical Drawings

Permit Filing/ Contract

Proposals

Construction Administration

Pyramid Atlantic Art Center (Hyattsville, MD)

Sitar Arts Center (Washington, DC)

Sitar Arts Center (Washington, DC)

eCasa Net Zero Energy Housing Prototype (Washington, DC)

Afghan Women’s Development Centers (Jalalabad, Taloquan, Laghman Province)

Repair the World Prototype (Detroit, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Baltimore)

Repair the World (Pittsburgh)

ArtView (Washington, DC)

H Space (Washington, DC)

HR 57 Center for the Preservation of Jazz & Blues (Washington, DC)

Arlington Food Assistance Center

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St. John’s Episcopal School (Siguatepeque, Honduras)

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