Architecture Firm in Charleston, SC

Residential Architecture

Our residential architecture services include custom homes, additions, and renovations. We develop floor plans and exterior designs around your household’s needs, design preferences, property conditions, and construction budget, with attention to how the proposed work fits its surroundings.

Multifamily and Mixed-Use Design

For apartments, townhomes, and mixed-use developments, we help clients explore unit layouts, shared circulation, building access, and the relationship between the building and its site. The design develops into coordinated documentation for the project’s agreed planning, permitting, and construction needs.

Interior Design

AB Group provides commercial and residential interior design in Charleston, including space planning, layout coordination, and finish and material selection. For homes, offices, retail spaces, restaurants, and hospitality interiors, we connect design decisions with how people use the space.

Commercial, Industrial, and Warehouse Design

Our commercial architecture services support offices, retail stores, restaurants, hospitality spaces, warehouses, and light industrial buildings. We consider circulation, daily operations, building systems, and site conditions for new construction, tenant improvements, renovations, and building conversions.

Permitting Support

We prepare architectural drawings and coordinate supporting design information for permit submission. Our permitting support can include building code considerations, a zoning overview, and responses to design-related review comments, with deliverables defined by the project agreement.

Coordinated Engineering Support

AB Group coordinates structural, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering with appropriately licensed professionals when required and included in the scope. We also provide in-house civil engineering in South Carolina, with project-specific services that may address site planning, grading, drainage, stormwater, and utilities.

From Early Planning to Permit Documents

A Charleston project can begin with questions about the property, an existing building, or the space needed for a new use. AB Group can review available information, explore architectural layouts, and help establish a design scope before detailed documentation begins.

Local considerations may include zoning, historic context, floodplain conditions, and the property’s permitting jurisdiction. Identifying these early helps define the architectural drawings, engineering input, and reviews the project may need.

As the design develops, we prepare the architectural documentation and coordinate the supporting disciplines included in the agreement.