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Architecture & Construction

We design and build
with intention.

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

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The Aura approach

Architecture, construction, and interiors 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.

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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Interiors and detail
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Interiors & Detail

Interiors resolved alongside the architecture rather than after it — millwork, materials, and finishes specified by the same studio that drew the walls they meet.

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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 interiors 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 San Francisco Bay Area. 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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Design & Planning

Architecture and drawings developed entirely in-house, refined together until the design is unmistakably yours.

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Permitting & Materials

Approvals, engineering, and every material selection managed for you — no timeline left waiting on a desk.

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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.

01Vision
02Design & Planning
03Permitting & Materials
04Construction
04 — Clients

In their words.

The measure of a design-build studio is how it feels to work with — from the first meeting to long after the keys.

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They drew our home and then built the very thing they drew. Nothing was lost between the two. The result feels calm and completely ours.

Victor S. — Granite Bay
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One team, one point of contact, a schedule we could actually see. Rare to find a builder this organised and this considered about detail.

Sara R. — El Dorado Hills
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Aura took a difficult site and made it feel effortless. Every material choice was intentional. We'd begin another project with them tomorrow.

Milan D. — Folsom
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.

Begin your application
05 — 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 San Francisco Bay Area.
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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.