Intentional Architecture is based in Old Town Lafayette and has designed nearly two dozen residential and commercial projects throughout the city — from custom homes, additions and ADUs to offices, restaurants, and larger community-focused projects.
Our work here is grounded in more than familiarity with the streets and neighborhoods. We understand Lafayette's zoning, planning, building-review, historic-preservation, and permitting processes — and how those requirements can shape a project before design is very far along.
Whether you are planning a new home, rethinking an older house, adding an ADU, or navigating a complex infill site, our role is to help turn those constraints into a clear, thoughtful path forward.
Architecture rooted
in Lafayette.
Lafayette is not one kind of place.
Old Town includes small historic homes, newer infill, alley-loaded garages and ADUs, longtime commercial buildings, and increasingly ambitious residential projects. Elsewhere in the city, larger lots, newer neighborhoods, and different zoning conditions create a completely different set of opportunities.
Our work here spans that range.
We have designed custom homes, whole-house renovations, additions, ADUs, office buildings, restaurant improvements, and larger commercial projects throughout Lafayette. That breadth gives us a practical understanding of both the architecture and the process required to make projects happen here.
Selected Lafayette
Projects.
Chester Residence
A high-performance forever home designed around aging in place, durability, comfort, and long-term resilience. One of the clearest examples of Intentional Architecture's residential work in Lafayette — contemporary living shaped carefully to fit within an established Old Town setting.
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107 East Simpson Offices
A contemporary office and accessory building designed to be a considerate neighbor along Lafayette's historic former main street. Residential scale, daylight, passive solar thinking, alley-loaded parking, and contextual materials allow a modern workplace to sit comfortably within the surrounding neighborhood.
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Lafayette North Public Market
A larger public-facing project that brings together food, gathering, and community uses at a highly visible Lafayette location. This project demonstrates Intentional Architecture's experience beyond residential work and at a larger community scale.
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Modern Farmhouse
An older Lafayette home reworked for contemporary family life while preserving the approachable scale and character that made the house appealing in the first place. The renovation opens the interior, improves flow and daylight, and creates a stronger connection between kitchen, dining, living, and outdoor spaces.
Backyard ADU
A compact backyard dwelling designed as a contemporary interpretation of Lafayette's longstanding alley and carriage-house tradition. The project creates flexible living space while respecting the scale of the primary home and surrounding neighborhood.
What we design
in Lafayette.
Custom Homes
Site-specific homes shaped around how clients actually live, with careful attention to context, performance, durability, and long-term value.
Major Renovations
Reworking existing homes to improve flow, daylight, comfort, functionality, and connection to outdoor space.
Additions
Thoughtful expansions that feel integrated with the original home rather than simply attached to it.
ADUs
Detached and attached secondary spaces designed around zoning, privacy, site constraints, and neighborhood context.
Select Commercial
Office, restaurant, community, and small mixed-use projects where thoughtful design and local coordination matter.
Why work with a local
Lafayette architect?
Principal Involvement
Your project is led directly by the architect responsible for the design — not handed off after the initial conversation.
Construction Experience
Our design work is informed by firsthand construction experience, helping us think through detailing, sequencing, durability, cost, and how buildings actually come together.
A Clear Process
We use a structured design process to clarify priorities, constraints, budget, and decisions before they become expensive problems.
High-Performance Thinking
Energy use, indoor comfort, durability, resilience, and healthy building strategies are considered as part of the architecture from the beginning.
Lafayette Knowledge
Years of work throughout the city have given us direct experience with Lafayette's planning, zoning, building, historic, and review processes — and working familiarity with the people responsible for administering them.
We know the process because we work here regularly. That makes a meaningful difference in how smoothly projects move through review.
A Lafayette architecture practice, not just a firm
that works here.
Intentional Architecture's studio is in Old Town Lafayette, only blocks from several of our completed and current projects.
We live here, work here, walk past our projects, and continue to see how they become part of the neighborhoods around them.
That proximity creates a different kind of accountability. For us, Lafayette is not simply another service area. It is home.
Planning a project
in Lafayette?
Whether you are considering a custom home, addition, major renovation, ADU, or commercial project, the best first step is understanding what the property, regulations, budget, and your priorities will allow.
We can help you establish that clearly before you make major commitments. Let's talk about your project.