Architecture
Full architectural service from concept through construction administration, for residential, cultural, hospitality, and commercial commissions.
№ 02 · Services
Services built on a slow craft.
The studio offers four distinct service lines — architecture, interior design, master planning, and heritage consultancy. Each is held by a small team and managed end-to-end. We deliberately keep the practice small, typically four to six active commissions across all services at any one time.
Service lines
Interior Design
Interior architecture and finishes specification, often as part of a wider architectural commission, occasionally as a stand-alone service.
Master Planning
Site studies, feasibility assessments, and master plans for sites between 0.5 and 20 hectares.
Heritage Consultancy
Specialist advice on adaptive reuse, heritage assessments, and sympathetic interventions in protected contexts.
№ 04 · Approach
Strategy held at the long horizon.
We treat each commission as a long conversation rather than a transaction. The first meeting is always free; the first month is exploratory; the work begins only when both sides are confident the studio is the right fit. We measure success not at handover but five and ten years later — when the building is still doing the work it was made for.
№ 05 · Process
Six stages, one method.
01
Listen
Every project begins with extended conversation — with clients, with the site, with neighbours, with anyone who has lived alongside the place we are about to change. We resist starting design until we believe we have understood the question.
02
Sketch
Early studies happen in pencil on paper, then quickly in physical models. We work fast and discard freely. The aim of this phase is to find the project’s core idea — the thing that, once removed, would collapse the whole.
03
Develop
Concept becomes proposition. We test the idea against budget, programme, planning constraints, and structural logic. Drawings move from hand sketches to digital, but the model remains central — every project has at least three physical models before construction.
04
Detail
Detail is where architecture either holds together or falls apart. We resolve junctions in 1:5 and 1:1 wherever possible, work directly with material samples, and test prototypes for any custom element. We trust craftspeople and consult them early.
05
Build
We are present on site through construction — weekly visits at minimum, daily during critical phases. We see ourselves as collaborators with builders rather than overseers, and we adapt the design to what the site reveals as work progresses.
06
Inhabit
A building is only finished once it has been lived in. We return to every completed project at six months, one year, and three years, to learn how it is performing and to remain available to the people who use it. These visits inform the next project.
№ 06 · Who we work with
Four kinds of commission.
Residential
Private clients who want their house to belong to its site, not announce itself across it. We work on single-family homes, weekend houses, and small multi-unit residential commissions.
A strong fit for clients who treat the site as a co-author and accept that good architecture is slow. Typical residential commissions run 18–36 months from first conversation to completion.
See work → Villa in Shijak I
Selected projects
Apartment in MunichApartment in Tirana IApartment in Tirana IIApartment in Tirana IIIGym in Durres IVilla in Shijak IApartment in DurresCoffee Bar in BresciaVilla in Shijak IIIBedroom in ShijakOffice in Durres IStore in DurresShowroom in ShijakBarber Salon in DurresApartment in Perugia IVilla in Shkozet IOffice in Durres IIGym in Durres IIApartment in Perugia IIVilla in Shijak IIFactory in ShkozetVilla in Shkozet IIStart a project.
Whether the brief is a single house, a master plan, or a heritage assessment — tell us about it. Klevis reads every inquiry and replies within a few working days.