Vol. I · Edition 2026

A briefing for design teams

The technology of the house, threaded into the practice of design.

A short brief on how Intuitiv works alongside architects and interior designers — and why the residences we shape together feel calmer, quieter, and more enduring than the rooms our trade typically delivers.

Prepared for Principals of architecture and interior practices

From Intuitiv Spaces — Victoria, BC, a Wenner Group company

INTUITIV — FOR ARCHITECTS

Contents

— The brief

An argument, in five short pieces.

This document is for the principal of an architecture or interior design practice considering whether to bring Intuitiv onto a current or future commission. It is short by design — the work itself is long.

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The problemWhy technology fights the design — and what it costs the principal.

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Our positionA specialist on the design team — not a contractor.

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What we contributeThe four disciplines we bring to your drawing set.

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How we collaborateThreaded into your process at the right moments.

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v.

An introductionHow to bring us onto a project — and what we ask of you.

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i. THE PROBLEM

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— i. The problem

The technology of the house should never fight the design.

In most luxury residences, it does. A dozen specialist contractors arrive late in the build, each responsible for one system, none responsible for how the systems behave together. The architect inherits the result.

— What we hear from architects

The panels arrive in the wrong colour. Speakers are visible because no-one cut their backboxes into millwork details. The keypad station you specified at five gangs is delivered at seven. The thermostat is white plastic, mounted off-centre, in the dining room.

Nobody owns the result. The integrator points at the AV vendor; the AV vendor points at the network contractor; the network contractor points at the lighting trade. The principal looks at you.

The brief is rewritten in commissioning. Six weeks before move-in, decisions you made eighteen months earlier are reopened — by people who were not in the room when they were made — and the family is brought in to "approve" surfaces they never asked for.

— What it costs

The cost is not money — your clients can spend more money. The cost is your design integrity. The kitchen you composed for six months reads, on opening night, as a kitchen with screens on it. The principal remembers the fight, not the sunlight.

A house is a place where the technology should be felt — not seen. The work of getting it there belongs on the drawing set, not the punch list.

Ryan Wenner · Principal, Intuitiv Spaces

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ii. OUR POSITION

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— ii. Our position

A specialist on the design team — never a contractor.

Intuitiv is engaged as a design consultant alongside the architect and interior designer. We do not take manufacturer rebates. Our only commercial relationship is with the principal.

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Drawings sit alongside yours.

Functional layouts, schematic ceiling plans, panel schedules, network diagrams, control-system flowcharts — issued in your title block discipline, on your sheet sizes, in your drawing set.

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Specifications speak your language.

CSI / NMS-format sections, written to coordinate with the architect's own divisions. Submittals, samples and shop drawings flow through the design team's review process — not around it.

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One technical voice in every meeting.

A senior Intuitiv engineer attends owner reviews, design meetings and site walks. RFIs flow through one inbox. A single person can answer any technology question put to them by the principal at any stage.

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Trades work to our drawings.

The integrator, the low-voltage trades and the AV vendor execute against our documentation. Reconciliation between disciplines happens before construction, not during it. We are responsible for the result.

— What you should know

Most of our work is by referral from architects we have collaborated with before. We do not pursue projects where the design team is not in place; we do not displace existing consultants; and we do not pitch to principals before the architect has been engaged. Our practice is built on the trust of the design teams we work alongside, project after project.

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iii. WHAT WE CONTRIBUTE

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— iii. What we contribute

Four disciplines, one consultancy.

Most projects engage all four. Each is offered independently if the brief calls for it.

a.

Master technology design.

A single coordinated technology master plan written from the first sketch — covering automation, networks, AV, lighting, advanced HVAC and climate, security, energy management, low-voltage infrastructure, audio engineering, voice and on-panel interfaces. One drawing set, one author, one set of decisions.

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Architectural integration.

Speaker, panel, fixture and equipment coordination at the architectural drawing stage. Ceiling reflected plans, millwork sections, joinery details, niche dimensions. Backboxes specified, gang counts written into the keypad schedule, conduit runs sized for what we know is coming.

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Custom programming.

We write the software that runs the house — Crestron and Lutron — plus advanced HVAC controls and bespoke layers above. Scenes, climate logic, security routines, the on-panel interface (Tahoe), and voice. Programmed in-house, not subcontracted.

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Continuous engagement.

After move-in, the senior engineer who designed the residence remains the point of contact for the household. The practice that programmed the systems is the practice that knows them — available for site visits and refinements as the residence requires them, in consulting capacity.

Also available: Tahoe, the on-panel interface.

Tahoe is our touch interface for the home — calm, soft, glass-warm, designed to be at home in a hallway worth more than the rest of the rack combined. It runs on Crestron and Lutron hardware, and increasingly on superyacht installations. Composed bespoke per residence as part of a full engagement; available for licensing on flagship integration projects led by other firms.

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iv. HOW WE COLLABORATE

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— iv. How we collaborate

Threaded into your process, at the right moments.

We are most useful when engaged at programming or schematic — but we have come on at design development, at construction documents, and (rarely, by request) once a project is already on site. Five points where our presence matters most.

i. Programming

Helping the principal frame the brief.

A short series of conversations with the family — what they value, how they live, what existing residences have taught them — translated into a one-page technology brief that sits inside the architect's master programme.

ii. Schematic

Layouts before elevations.

Speaker, fixture, panel and screen positions composed onto your floor plates before the elevations harden. We answer "where does the keypad live in this hallway?" while you can still move the wall.

iii. DD & CD

A parallel drawing set.

Functional drawings, low-voltage plans, network diagrams and equipment schedules issued at every milestone alongside your architectural set. Reviewed in the same coordination meetings, signed by the same hand.

iv. Construction

RFIs, submittals, shop drawings.

The integrator, the AV vendor and the low-voltage trades work from our drawings. Submittals come to us. Shop drawings are reviewed by our engineer before they reach yours. The technology punch-list is ours, not yours.

v. Commissioning

A house that opens on day one.

Programming is written and tested before the family moves in — not after. Scenes are walked with the household and refined; the panels are calm before the principal first touches them; and the senior engineer who programmed the residence is on site through commissioning.

vi. Lifetime

A senior engineer assigned, for years.

After commissioning, the practice continues — the engineer who designed the residence remains the point of contact for the household, available for site visits and refinements as the residence requires them. Architects who introduce us to their clients introduce them to a relationship that lasts.

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v. AN INTRODUCTION

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— v. An introduction

If a project on your desk would benefit from this work.

A short note on what we ask of you when you bring us into a commission, and how the conversation typically unfolds.

Send a short note. Project location, scale (gross square feet is enough), the architect and interior designer engaged, the construction stage, and a sentence on what is at stake. Drawings come later, by mutual consent.
One conversation, by phone or in person. Held with a senior engineer — not a business-development hand-off — to understand the brief and decide together whether our way of working suits yours.
A scope and a fee, in writing. Issued within ten working days of the first conversation. Phased to your milestones; fixed where the scope is fixed; hourly where exploration is the right answer.
References, on request. Once a project is well-defined, references are introduced by mutual agreement — typically other architects we have collaborated with, occasionally a principal who has agreed to speak.

Speak with the principal of Intuitiv.

Conversations with architects and design teams are held by Ryan Wenner or Adam Stowe, principals, or by the senior engineer the project is most likely to be assigned to. We answer within two working days.

By email

studio@intuitiv.space

By introduction

via your principal architect

By referral

a Wenner Group company

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