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Life Brief workshop
A structured session mapping routines, relationships, privacy, hosting and how the household will change over the next decade.
A paid pre-project study
Know what you are
committing to.
Before the commission
Most expensive mistakes in construction are made before anyone draws anything — the wrong plot, the wrong assumption, the wrong budget. The Project Blueprint exists to catch them while they are still cheap.
What you receive
Before the first line is drawn
01Why it exists
The costly decisions
happen first.
By the time a design exists, most of the money has already been committed in principle.
The plot has been bought. The budget has been assumed. The programme has been promised to a family or a landlord. Design then works within constraints that nobody tested.
A Blueprint tests them. It is deliberately small, deliberately paid, and deliberately independent of whether you go on to commission us.
02What you receive
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Site and regulatory assessment
Orientation, access, soil indications, services, setbacks, FAR, height limits and the approval route that actually applies.
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Indicative spatial programme
What the site can genuinely hold, room by room, against what you have said you need.
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Investment range
A costed band with every assumption stated in writing, so you can see exactly what it does and does not include.
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Risk register
What could go wrong, how likely it is, what it would cost, and what would reduce it.
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Recommended route
Design-build, design plus project management, or something else entirely — with the reasoning made explicit.
Delivered as a single bound document and a working session to walk through it. Yours outright, whatever you decide to do next.
03Who it suits
You are choosing between plots
Compare two or three sites on buildability, orientation, approval risk and true all-in cost before you buy the wrong one.
You have a plot and no idea what it costs
Establish a defensible investment range with stated assumptions, rather than a number a contractor guessed over the phone.
You are comparing firms
Arrive at every conversation with a brief, a programme and a risk register. It changes what firms are able to promise you.
You are not ready to commit
A small, finite, paid piece of work is a low-risk way to find out how a practice actually thinks before signing anything larger.
04Questions
Fair questions
about paying first.
Why is the Project Blueprint paid?
Because it is real work, not a sales pitch. It involves a site visit, regulatory research, an indicative spatial programme and a costed investment range. Studios that give this away free either do it superficially or recover the cost inside the project fee later.
Do I have to continue with MIYAAR afterwards?
No. You own the output outright and are free to take it to any architect or builder. That independence is the point — a study you cannot use elsewhere is not advice, it is a lead magnet.
How long does a Blueprint take?
Typically three to five weeks from the Life Brief workshop to the delivered document, depending on site access and how quickly local authority information can be verified.
Is it useful if I have not bought the plot yet?
That is often when it is most useful. Evaluating two or three shortlisted plots for buildability, orientation, approval risk and true all-in cost is far cheaper than discovering the problem after purchase.