One vision. One responsible team.
Our approach is built on a simple principle: great design and great execution should never be separated.
One team, six stages
The process
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Concept
We start with your ambition, your site and your budget, and develop a concept that answers all three.
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Architectural drawings
The concept is refined into precise drawings, with every proportion and detail resolved before anything is built.
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Visualisation
You see the building and its spaces before construction begins. What we render is what we build.
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Material selection
Stone, glass, metal and finish are chosen for how they look, how they age and how they are built.
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Construction
The team that designed the project builds it, carrying every decision from the drawings through to site.
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Final finishing
The last details are executed with the same care as the first line, and the space is handed over as envisioned.
Questions
Do you design and build, or only design?
Both. Obsidian is a design-build studio: the same team takes responsibility from the first concept and architectural drawings through material selection, construction and final finishing.
Can you work on an interior or exterior only?
Yes. Interior design and exterior design are offered as services of their own, as well as part of a complete design-build project.
Will the finished building look like the visualisations?
That is the promise behind our name and our line: what we render is what we build. Because one team designs and builds, the decisions you approve are the decisions carried out on site.
Where is the studio?
We are based in Erbil, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
How does a project start?
With a conversation. Send us a few lines about your site, space or idea through the contact page, by email or by phone, and we will arrange a first meeting.