Sentient Architecture, LLC was a full service architecture firm with offices in Austin and Round Top, Texas that tailored its designs to each client's unique goals and values. It is not currently active as its Managing Partner, award-winning designer Christopher K. Travis, now provides design and building services primarily through his design/build company, Truehome Design.Build.
Its projects, as well as those later designed and built by Truehome Design.Build have been published in many national publications including Country Living, Builder Magazine and the New York Times. Travis' approach to design has been covered by publications in Greece, Germany, Australia, Spain, the U.S. and in South America. Additional projects can be viewed on Pinterest and Facebook as well as in our portfolio. Travis' unique design process is known as the Truehome® Workshop. Truehome is a systematic approach for creating homes that are suited to the unique psychology, lifestyle, tastes, values and life goals of their inhabitants.
It arose from a simple insight. When people seek to change their living space, their true goal is to change their lives for the better. Sentient previously, and currently Truehome Design.Build empowers its clients to reliably accomplish that goal.
The process is patent-pending as a software product. The Truehome approach is scientific and based in neuroscience, psychology and systems theory. It calls for the designer to think of designing a living space as an ecosystem that is fitting for its inhabitants. Truehome is related to the view within health care architecture called Evidence Based Design – which proposes that evidence from the sciences should be considered by architects in the design of structures. Both views propose that such methods lead to buildings that support well being – or said another way – to therapeutic architecture.
Mr. Travis has taken that approach even further. Using a variety of techniques, he helps clients discover their unique "experience of home" – and working together as a team – to create a home that fits the life they want to live. Truehome® is multi-disciplinary approach that also borrows techniques from human factors disciplines like user experience, user interface studies, ergonomics, environmental psychology, design anthropology and decision science.The process is well established.
For over a decade, many real world projects have been designed and built using it to good effect. In addition to delivering what people truly want more reliably, it helps consumers identify and prioritize their goals more effectively, thereby saving time and money. The firms were both committed to green, sustainable design, and a pragmatic approach that considers managing a budget and value engineering to be a central responsibility of a designer. Sentient Architecture, LLC and later Truehome Design.Build designed and built primarily high end residential and historic projects in the Austin, Texas environs and the South Central Texas counties of Fayette, Colorado, Lee, Bastrop, Austin and Washington counties.
In 2015, Travis moved Truehome Design.Build to Colorado, though he still takes design projects in Texas.
Truehome Design.Build works in a wide variety of architectural styles and on a wide variety of projects – from high end estates and custom homes to religious, historic and historic commercial projects. With all their clients, whatever the project, the goal remains the same - to identify the vision of their clients and deliver it in a way that is sustainable, beautiful and fitting to the pre-existing psychological/environmental experience of their clients.