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Architecture & Construction

We design and build
with intention.

Aura is a design-build studio shaping considered homes across Northern California — one accountable team, from the first sketch to the final key.

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The Aura approach

Architecture, construction, and consultation resolved under one roof.

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01 — Studio

Three disciplines,
one studio.

Design and build are rarely spoken by the same voice. At Aura they are — so intent survives all the way to the finished detail.

Consultation and planning
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Consultation & Planning

From the land you have not bought yet to the day you move in — site search, acquisition, feasibility, budget, and every interior decision, guided end to end.

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Architecture and design
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Architecture & Design

Original architecture shaped around how you live, your site, and the way light moves through it — drawn in-house, start to finish.

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Construction and development
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Construction & Development

Meticulous building with one accountable team, clean sites, and honest schedules — the drawings realised exactly as intended.

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02 — Our Story

A home is not built.
It is composed.

Aura was founded on a simple conviction: that a home is not a product to be delivered, but an atmosphere to be composed — the light through a room in the late afternoon, the quiet of good proportion, the sense on walking in that nothing could be otherwise.

We keep architecture, construction, and consultation under one roof, so the vision that begins on paper survives every decision it takes to build. One studio, one standard, one point of accountability — from the first sketch to the final key.

We take on only a handful of homes each year, across the Bay Area, Greater Sacramento, and the Central Valley. It is the only way we know to work at the level our clients expect — and the reason we choose our projects as carefully as they choose us.

03 — Process
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Vision

We listen, walk the site, and shape a brief — understanding how you want to live long before a line is ever drawn.

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Consultation

Before anything is drawn, we work through cost, feasibility, and land. Finding the right site, guiding the purchase, and shaping a budget that holds — so the project starts on solid ground.

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Design & Planning

Architecture drawn entirely in-house, with approvals, engineering, and material selection managed for you — refined together until the design is unmistakably yours.

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Construction

One dedicated team builds it to the last detail, on a schedule you can see — then hands you the keys.

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Our belief

A home should feel inevitable — as though it could not have been any other way.

— The Aura studio
By application

We take on a
few homes a year.

Aura accepts a limited number of commissions annually, and selects them with care. If yours is one we should build, we would like to hear about it.

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04 — Apply

Aura accepts a limited number of commissions each year. This is the only way to reach the studio — a short application that helps us understand your project, and whether we are the ones to build it. Every submission is read personally.

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Where is your project located?
Aura works across the Bay Area, Greater Sacramento, and the Central Valley.
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What kind of project is it?
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What is the anticipated investment?
An honest range helps us understand scope. Aura's projects typically begin in the millions.
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When would you hope to begin?
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Tell us about the home you have in mind.
The site, how you want to live in it, what drew you to Aura — as much or as little as you like.
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How should we reach you?
Used only to respond to your application.