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ABOUT 

"The floors are done. The painting is done. We are waiting for a shower door to be installed this week. Hoping to move in this weekend. 
If you are ever in the area please text me if you’d like one more visit to see the finished product of your design.  We love it!!!  
Thank you again for helping us get started on this journey of transformation to our house !" --Karen Russell

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With credentials in both Landscape and Building Design, Archiflora specializes in integrating these design services, and working with clients who enjoy nature-based, comfortable, sustainable and inspiring communities and home. Fond of modernism, Archiflora has also a great respect for tradition, historic architecture and context, and strives to assist clients in bringing  a wide range of needs and desires together in their project.  We'd like to help you build well-detailed, beautiful, and energy efficient, homes and communities.

 

Archiflora is a full service Architectural firm. Principal Janice Nyman works with community organizations and private home owners to pull all the facets of a project together through design, planning, budgeting, construction documents, permit applications, and project administration.

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Archiflora services focus on new home design, purchasable and customizable pre-made home plans, ADU & DADU design, historic home renovation and sustainable remodels. Experienced in Farmhouses and remote location homes,  we are also committed to improving Urban and suburban home design.  With experienced planning and design, beauty and sustainability can be affordable commodities.

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Affordable sustainability:

  • holding ponds, water pools, sources for garden irrigation

  • planting for thermal insulation and solar shading

  • pin-pile footings, structures with a light impact upon the landscape

  • dual-layer insulated walls

  • skylights,ventilating windows & clearstories for passive ventilation

  • exposed recycled joist roof framing and decking

  • hydronic heating, heat pumps, passive solar design

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Architect

Key experiences that have shaped Janice Nyman's practice:

"Integrated, strong form, shape and color were often present in the landscapes of Alaska where I grew up, and as a young Architect in Basel Switzerland, our urban projects focused on creating networks of shared and private outdoor spaces. In San Francisco, California,working to renovate a Julia Morgan designed Residence lead me  to incorporate, the lightness and craftsmanship of older wood structures into contemporary Architecture. In Seattle as a member of the Eco-Building Guild, and the International Society of Arborists I continues to learn, explore and test new architectural methods in energy and environmental conservation."

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Education

  • Cornell University Bachelor of Architecture

  • Architectural licensure in Washington, NCARB

  • Arctic Engineering certified

  • LEED Accredited

  • Certification: Urban forestry, Sustainable landscape management

  • ISA Arborist licensure

Janice Nyman

PRINCIPAL

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4200 Chilberg Avenue Southwest Seattle WA 98116

Tel: 206.930.4593    E: nymanarc@gmail.com    Web:archiflorahouse.com

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