Ryan Hughes Design Build

Process Tour · Bayshore Cay Estate

How a project moves

Step the cursor through five stages. Watch what gets scoped, decided, built, and handed off — in the order the studio actually lives it.

Concept

The Brief is written. The site is read. The studio commits to a direction before a single line is drawn in CAD.

New this stage · Elements

  • Negative-edge pool

    Pool & Spa · waterfront

  • Stone entry drive

    Hardscape · entry

  • Seawall fountain run

    Water Features · waterfront

New this stage · Decisions

  • Site survey scope and seawall setback

    Ryan Hughes · due Feb 10

Resolved this stage

  • Site survey scope and seawall setback

    Survey commissioned; 7' seawall setback confirmed.

New this stage · Tasks

  • Initial pool shell concept review

    Ryan Hughes · due Mar 12 · on Negative-edge pool

  • Stone drive layout staked on site

    Stuart Luff · due Apr 30 · on Stone entry drive

  • Entry drive grading plan signed off

    Stuart Luff · due Apr 8 · on Stone entry drive

  • Initial seawall fountain concept review

    Ryan Hughes · due Mar 26 · on Seawall fountain run

  • Site review of seawall conditions

    Stuart Luff · due Apr 10 · on Seawall fountain run

Journal

  • Project opened. Concept stage begins.

    Jan 14 · Ryan Hughes

  • Site walk with the Whitcombs. Sun moves west fast across the seawall — pool needs to sit east of the portico to keep afternoon glare off the lounge.

    Jan 22 · Ryan Hughes

  • First Brief draft circulated. Material palette anchored on shell-stone + limewashed stucco.

    Feb 4 · Jonathan Milford

  • Survey scope and seawall setback confirmed.

    Feb 12