Architype Design / John T Ballschmider / Architect

Architectural designer skilled in commercial, multi family, and residential architecture. Custom new home construction, additions, and remodels. Background in Sustainable Design. Works in Archicad, a 3-D rendering program. Architectural professional with a Master's Degree focused in design from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Oregon. License in Idaho and Wisconsin.
I believe buildings can serve as a bridge between nature, culture and people, and that inspiring surroundings have a positive effect on people’s lives.
I believe a client should be involved directly with the designer, draftsman, and project architect. By being a singular architect, you the client, have full access to the one processing the work.
Design is a process arrived at through collaboration, so that the firm and their clients collectively evolve the work at hand rather than for the designers alone. I encourage creative problem solving and the inclusion of the client in the design process towards the recognition of their needs.
Currently working on a mining claim reclamation on the Red Elephant gulch, west of Hailey, Idaho
The project is an effort to return the land to a state of native grasses, shrubs, and trees, that may have existed before the interruption of mining activity.