Vision
SDH Architects is interested in creating healthier spaces and communities through a design framework that breaks barriers, synergizes programs, and embraces the natural and city environment through innovative design. The ideal would be to collaboratively design a framework that promotes design as core and creates opportunities for innovative solutions.
SDH Architects is founded on core values through responsible design solutions. Responsible design is curated through a collaborative discovery process, producing solutions that are timeless and fill a functional, yet creative need. SDH Architects understands the value of community and altruism. With every interaction, connection, and relationship established, a sense of meaning and purpose is derived. Every interaction (both human and technological) inspires ideas to improve and maintain community. These values and core principals form the foundation of SDH Architects.
What We Do
Residential Commercial
Interior Design Urban Design & Planning
Digital Design Construction Documents & Administration
Code & Permiting
SDH Architects specializes in Architecture, Interior Design, Urban Design, Planning, and 3-Dimensional visualization. SDH Architects focuses on listening and understanding Client vision via a process of discovery versus traditional project approaches.
How we work
SDH Architects focuses on listening and understanding Clients' vision via a process of discovery versus traditional project approaches. The process includes structured concept and planning meetings to realize scope and scale, boutique tactics, and overall design approach. SDH Architects will take the time up front to connect with the Client to realize the idea together and create something innovative and functional.
SDH Architects provides a hands-on, holistic approach to customer service in conjunction with technologically advanced, superior processes. The firms approach provides optimal efficiency and superior value due to client-driven design processes and construction methods.
Our approach
SDH Architects believes in educating clients to realize the full potential of their vision. The process is broken into eight components:
Understanding - Listening to the Clients vision, goals, budget, and desires
Formalizing - Creating a project scope and clear roadmap to meet Client goals, deliver in a timely manner, and meet budgetary expectations
Educate - Based on project specific precedent, set the framework for an informed creative process
Create - Work collaboratively and organically with the team: Client, Designer, Consultants, and City Agencies. SDH Architects provides efficient and organized concept design sessions, resulting in functional design solutions
Visualization - Share the design solution in 3-dimensions with the Client to solidify the vision through dynamic computer design resources (e.g. animations, perspective renderings)
Document - Provide a construction set that highlights the design aesthetics, building systems, and support specifications to properly communicate with the construction service industry
Communicate - Provide a high-level of communication during construction for the Client and Contractor
Close Out - Successfully conclude project based on client-driven success criteria set at the beginning of the project
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SDH Architects focuses on listening and understanding the Client vision via a process of discovery versus traditional project approaches.
who we are
The office of Saul David Hayutin Architects (SDH Architects) is a full-service design/construction firm providing architectural, interior design, and planning. To ensure high quality design and the fulfillment of project needs, the firm provides a high level of client service to provide creative and functional proposals to meet budgetary goals, schedules, and ensure ease of construction/permitting for the client. The firm also provides technologically superior processes, providing greater value for clients and enhanced design and construction.
Saul David Hayutin, AIA, LEED AP (BD+C) - Principal
Saul David Hayutin received his Bachelor of Architecture in 1999 from Syracuse University. He earned his Masters of Urban Design and Architecture from Columbia University Graduate School of Planning, Preservation, and Architecture in 2002. Mr. Saul Hayutin has practiced for over 13 years on several projects in the United States and overseas while at firms in Chicago, Denver, and New York City (including internationally known firms such as Robert A.M. Stern Architects in New York City). His experience also includes Adjunct Professor teaching positions at Columbia University and New York University Center for Advanced Digital Applications.
Notable Projects and Publications:
PROJECTS
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residential
innovative solutions and creative design applied to all project types and sizes
commercial
interior design
SDH Architects has worked on a variety of projects including: high-end single-family/multi-family residences, restaurants, spas, industrial, and mixed-use retail spaces. The work draws from education, design precedents, community/site-specific issues, and experience working on various project types and sizes. To ensure high quality design and the fulfillment of project needs, the firm provides a high level of Client service to provide creative and functional proposals to meet budgetary goals, schedules, and ensure ease of construction/permitting for the client.
urban design
mixed media
Residence on 74th Street
New York City, NY (Upper East Side)
Residence on Old Court Road
Baltimore, MD (Pikesville)
GALLERY M
Denver, CO (Cherry Creek North)
The New West Coast
New York City, NY (Hell's Kitchen, West Side Yards)
Residence on 86th Street (a)
Spina (fresh pasta bar)
New York City, NY (Lower East Side)
Residence on 86th Street (b)
mi a ri (Invisible Cities)
Mixed Media - Video Short / Animation
Fashion in Color
Capitol Yards - Ideas Competition
Washington, DC
Mixed Media - 3-Dimensional Visualization
Remedies
Denver, CO
Denver Wellness Center
El Capitan Theater - Virtural Ticket Selection
Hollywood Boulevard, CA (Disney Theater)
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Project Types: Residential, Interior Design, Renovation
Project Details:
The combination of two existing 1920s apartments into one 1,400 square-foot condominium on the 12th floor utilizes the morning and early evening light to provide an optimal space for entertaining and living. With 5 grandchildren, a large group of friends, and an extensive collection of art and sculpture, the couple specified a program of versatility. The primary design strategy maximizes the floor plan, allowing for multiple uses of the space and privacy in each room. The program includes a new living room, media/guest room, office space, master bathroom, and a master bedroom suite with walk-in closet. The contemporary design style utilizes every opportunity to highlight art/sculpture, creates innovative hidden storage opportunities, and provides a space suitable for family events and socializing.
The material palette establishes a formal consistency throughout the apartment - providing the right backdrop for rich sculptures and artwork. The dynamic, yet serene space is the perfect setting for both family engagements and social functions.
Project Types: Residential, Architectural, Interior Design, New Construction, and Addition
The Frank Lloyd Wright inspired 1950s home, is situated in 2-acres of wooded vegetation on the side of a valley. The strategy was to design and build a 2,000 square-foot addition that leveraged solar orientation, had a minimal impact to the existing natural environment, and seamlessly connected the addition into the existing plan of the original home. The entry driveway winds down through the woods and ends at a circular drive where the new addition is located along the west edge. The location utilizes the light from the rising sun in the East casting light into the new guest bedroom in the morning and captures the setting sun in the West - illuminating the connection hallway to the original home. The addition perfectly blends into the existing style and form of the original home, while providing a modern means of construction, mechanical systems, and materials.
The program accommodates a new office with a glass corner and continuous windows on the East and South Facades. The addition allows the couple to take advantage of the view into the woods and the natural sunlight from all sides. The program includes a 3-car garage, guest bedroom, laundry room, and connection hallway with exposed natural wood beams to complement the existing style of the original home.
Project Types: Commercial, Architectural, Interior Design, New Construction, and Addition
The gallery owner desired to renovate an existing 1970s, 2-story commercial building located in the heart of the Art/Fashion district of Denver, Colorado. The gallery required space to house 80 pieces of art, sculpture, and photography, while providing flexibility for events and showings. The design strategy involved creating a signage box on the street to draw the foot traffic into a new entry vestibule leading to the main gallery space located on the 2nd floor.
The open floor plan allows visitors to move around the entry vestibule and throughout the different sections of the gallery. Each area utilizes devices of lighting, hanging attachments, moveable walls, and sliding doors, creating a dynamic space to display over 80 pieces of art, sculpture, and photographs.
Pergolis Urban Gallery, New York City, NY - Newman Real Estate Institute
Project Types: Urban Design, Ideas Competition
The exhibition, Midtown-West: Manhattans Future explored the future possibilities for the westernmost edge of Midtown Manhattan, from Eighth Avenue to the Hudson River. Through an extensive array of thoughtful and provocative drawings the initial and immensely important discussion opened by the City of New York itself is seen against a series of academic and professional contributions from Harvard, Princeton, Columbia and the City University of New York, the offices of some of New York Citys most vivid and articulate architects, and distinguished members of its land-use bar. This exhibition frames the discussion of New York Citys future within the context of what a global city can be in the 21st century.
The New West Coast proposal begins with the premise that the Hudson River and Manhattan's perimeter neighborhoods can be the basis for a regionally sustainable, livable and profitable development. The New West Coast works into the city from the River as well as out from the existing city streets: the proposal comprehensively joins the regional connections enabled by the River to the complex urban fabric that gives the city its vitality.
Unable to expand into the highly regulated and built up areas to the north, south and east, the midtown business district looks to the west. Midtown's typical pattern of concentric expansion has historically ignored the waterfront, leaving it to less glamorous but necessary service and infrastructure uses, severing the city from the edge. As Manhattan land has become more valuable and as open and recreational spaces have become more prized, a rediscovery of the urban shoreline has taken place in recent years. How can the river's edge become a new engine of sustainable development without sacrificing the unique qualities of the shoreline? How can the rivers edge connect to the larger region and to the mixed scale and uses of the West Side?
Focusing on a 16-block, 70-acre area encompassing the South Capitol and M Street intersection and the Navy Yard Metrorail station. The area includes a neighborhood of low-density subsidized and market-rate residential units, light industrial facilities, and small commercial buildings, all cut off from each other by the busy South Capitol Street corridor and cut off from surrounding neighborhoods by the elevated Southeast Freeway. Each team submitted a scheme for reviving the area and reconnecting it to the greater community.
The site is part of a larger area being studied cooperatively by the National Capital Planning Commission and the District of Columbia Office of Planning. With its proximity to the Anacostia waterfront and its dramatic views of the U.S. Capitol, the South Capitol Street site is one of the major gateways to the city proposed for redevelopment under a District of Columbia revitalization plan by Washington Mayor Anthony A. Williams. From the Anacostia Waterfront to the downtown core, were revitalizing this city for our young people.
Residence at 86th Street (A)
New York City, New York (Upper East Side)
The renovation of a1920s, 1,200 square-foot condominium for a young couple to emphasize light and color to provide a comfortable environment for the familys newborn. The new space is ideal for the fast-paced, business savvy couple that enjoys a serene home environment for unwinding from the city life.
The primary design strategy opens a tight living space and refreshes it with two bathroom upgrades, a kitchen face-lift, and bright colors to highlight each room.
Project Types: Commercial, Architectural, Interior Design, Renovation
Spina is a fresh Italian pasta house located in the East Village. The open brick walls and cozy dining room warmly invites guests 7 days a week. A fresh pasta bar is the envy of the block - where guests can watch as fresh pasta is prepared, capturing a holistic dining experience. The Edison bulb lighting provides a contemporary style against a mosaic ceiling treatment and all-wood espresso and wine bar.
The program includes a dining room that accommodates up to 36 people via stand-alone wood tables and banquette seating against an existing brick wall. The pasta bar is the primary focal point and can be observed from the street through a picture window (includes a unique wine display). The original bi-folding windows showcase Italian writing, highlighting the restaurant authenticity. The restaurant also offers ample outdoor street seating.
Residence at 86th Street (B)
The combination of two 1920s apartments into one 2,400 square-foot condominium focused around the great room as the heart of the family. The creative and eclectic parents of a two active children desired a home environment open to various activities. The attention to detail placed around the great room took advantage of the large windows and ample sources of light.
A modern interpretation through digital media of Italo Calvino's - Invisible Cities written in 1978. The story is a narrative about one man's journey through different cities. The video interprets his written words into a 3-dimensional, modern interpretation.
The video was created with an independent research team in 2002 at Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP).
Team: Saul Hayutin, Emmuel Pratt, Jan Leenknegt, Belisario Barchi, Rodrigo Guardia
Fashion in Color - (Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York)
On view December 9, 2005--March 26, 2006
Fashion in Colors was an exhibit at the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City. The showcase explored color as a design element through 300 years of Western clothing and examined the changing perceptions and meanings of color through various eras. More than 60 costumes were on display, ranging from eighteenth-century court gowns to couture creations by twentieth-century masters (including Balenciaga, Vionnet, Chanel, and Watanabe).
The video was created by the students of an independent research seminar at the NYU Center for Advanced Digital Application in 2005.
Mixed Media
3-Dimensional Visualization
SDH Architects employs the use of 3-Dimensional drawings and other innovative techniques to communicate site-specific concepts to the Client. SDH Architects shares the design solution in 3-dimensions to solidify vision through dynamic computer design resources (e.g. animations, perspective renderings)
Titian Technology group was charged with creating an online ticketing system for the Disney El Capitan Theater. The project inlcuded a 3-Dimensional representation of the theater to highlight potential seating choices.
Go to the link to view seating chart and to purchase a ticket: LINK
Step 1) Click on "Buy Tickets Now", Step 2) Select show, Step 3) Select a time, Step 4) View seating chart
