Phone: - (916) 249-9400 -
We are a church building architecture company. We apply 10 + years of civil engineering, construction, and architecture experience to produce practical design solutions for your church!
We bring a wide range of architectural experience in assembly, food service, classroom, office, retail, and clinic uses to form optimal worship spaces.
We provide architectural design services from site selection, conceptual planning, construction document, and construction administration.
Call or text if you have a building need you would like to address, we would like to help get you started and finished. Use the Contact Form at the bottom.
We like to encourage good sense and practice in construction. We are not the source of all knowledge in this area, but what we do know - we share.
Our primary background is in Christian church design. While we are not an exclusively church design company, the majority of the clients we serve have assembly use design needs. The scope of our projects range from 120 to 1,000 seat auditoriums and accompanying lobby, fellowship, kitchen, cafe, education, childcare, and office areas. Our typical projects range in size from 3,000 to 25,000 square feet with our largest project being 42,000 square feet. It included both church and private school facilities, required parking/site design, involved a use permit coordination process, construction documents, and construction administration. We work to enable the church's worship and enjoyment of Jesus Christ in a building suited for this purpose.
Our experience in retail extends from small Tenant Improvements within existing cold/warm shell spaces to new buildings up to 10,000 square feet for individuals and corporate clients. We also have background in adapting franchise prototypes to local jurisdictional requirements.
A broader area of our design practice is to help professionals and business owners with their office design needs. Whether it is a table within a coffee shop corner, an open area enabling collaboration, or an acoustically sensitive divided space, we understand that an office is a basic weekday need for business. Our office design experience ranges from 500 to 10,000 square feet. With each client we try to work out a design suited to their business work flow.
We know there is more to a successful restaurant and coffee shop than walls, booths, tables, and chairs: environment and service is a delicate balance that defines the "atmosphere" of any food service establishment. We help our clients work out the environment part so that they can think about how to best serve great food and coffee. We work with interior designers, plumbing, mechanical, electrical, structural engineers, and equipment suppliers to provide quality design for our food service clients. And while not everyone in our office loves coffee - we love to design great spaces to enjoy great coffee.
We have experience in designing clinic spaces, physician offices, dental offices, and laboratories. Our experience includes 1,000 to 13,000 square foot medical offices for private and national organizations.
We do not design hospital facilities.
Part of our experience includes industrial storage facilities with heavy involvement of fire consulting and mechanical engineers. We are familiar with fire code requirements including adaptation of existing facilities to industrial uses and hazardous materials classifications and limitations.
A portion of our work involves creating plans that meet accessibility needs in existing facilities. We use universal design principles to produce code compliant accessible buildings for the broadest spectrum of users to help building owners with immediate and long term accessibility concerns.
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Grace Family Church
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, California State University, Sacramento, CA. 2005
Master of Divinity, The Master’s Seminary, Sun Valley, CA. 2013
SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE
Over 10 years experience in civil engineering and building design with responsibilities covering initial project development and documentation delivery. Began experience in 2004 as a residential designer. Designed over 100 residences before the 2008 market adjustment. Continued in design and construction on a periodic basis during graduate school until full time re-engagement in commercial design in 2013.
Joined TPC Architects in 2014 and served as project manager and documentation coordinator for a number of adaptive reuse and new construction projects. Developed documentation for commercial buildings including: assembly, office, laboratory, medical office, mercantile, and industrial facilities.
In 2018, launched Baranov Building Design focusing on assembly facility building design serving churches, clinic, retail, office, and food service clients.
Overall experience encompasses civil engineering, architecture and construction including commercial conceptual design through construction administration for tenant improvements, adaptive reuse, and new construction projects. Proficient in the following tasks: site and building concept development, planning / entitlements, agency review coordination, schematic design, construction documentation, and construction administration.
In 2021, obtained licensure as an architect in California.
LICENSURE
- Professional Engineer: 2010 - Contractor: 2013 - Architect: 2021 -
209 Bulen Street, Roseville, California 95678
Phone: (916) 249-9400 If you call or text you consent to us calling or texting you back.
Obedience is not a favorite word of mine. It is restrictive. It is subjugative, It is oppressive. How many words can I invent to say the same thing? Many! But we live in a structure of laws, we are born into laws, grow up into them, work within them, live by them, and can even die by them.
We obey laws "not only because of possible punishment but also as a matter of conscience" (Romans 13:5). As it pertains to construction, there are also laws, codes, regulations, standards, etc. And there is a cost associated with permits, plans, and inspections.
There is an even greater cost associated with not complying with building regulations. Not only in terms of paying for violation fees, but to our character, our souls, and even our minds. No distress is greater than that which comes from within. "The wicked flee though no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion" (Proverbs 28:1).
A burdened conscience can keep you up at night - make you "run" when no one suspects anything. A paranoid-like fleeing from questions and conversations can lead one to a destructively reclusive life. Worse yet, a burned out conscience, boldly plunges the person and their associates into breaking more and more laws with greater and greater consequences.
On the other hand, when a person is obedient to the laws to which they agree to live under they have an internal confidence which is able to withstand the accusations and attacks that they may face. While some may unknowingly find themselves outside of what the building codes requires, we do believe that we should strive to correct the situation with all the energy that God gives us.
We can help.
We would all like to live in a perfect world where nothing breaks and every aspect of a building is just right. Instead, the second law of thermodynamics seems to dominate our buildings - they decay and break down. There are also effects of bad workmanship, ad-hoc solutions to expansions, and spur-of-the-moment "temporary" repairs that become permanent parts of the building and site.
We spend much time, money, and energy in order to build and re-build the buildings that provide us a place to live, work, and worship. At Baranov Building Design we would like to be part of your team by providing practical and affordable solutions to realize your building vision.
The building department is not out to get you. It may be frustrating at times, but it is not without it's beneficial purpose. The people there are entrusted with the duty to protect citizens from negligent construction effects, abuse within the construction industry, shoddy work, bad design, etc. This is their job - we do our job to design buildings that satisfy the parameters of our client's program subject to the authority having jurisdiction's (AHJ) approval.