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firm profile
Z3 Value Engineering
Thorough planning is essential to obtaining exceptional results. We
begin with a Master Plan, defining the entire scope of the project
from start to finish, including the client’s goals, needs, budget,
preferences, time line, zoning, and other factors. Master Planning
allows the project to be arranged into phases to meet budgetary
demands while ensuring that all phases integrate perfectly with the
initial phase of design and construction, avoiding the need to re-do
earlier work—even if there is a long time span between phases.
Should the project still prove too ambitious for the available
budget, Value Engineering takes a second look at the project to find
alternative materials, finishes, equipment, furnishings and other
elements that will achieve the same effect at a lower cost while
maintaining long-term value. Since all goals are clearly stated in the
Master Plan, the final design can be engineered to accomplish those
goals and to fit within budget guidelines.
Louise Farrar-Wegener, IIDA
Interior Designer
 As
Principal and Founder of Z3 design studio, inc.,
a certified Women Business Enterprise, Louise Farrar-Wegener has
designed interiors for the Home Builders Association of Metropolitan
Portland Headquarters, Oregon Hot Springs Spas, the accounting
offices of Antico & Forbess, Caught in the Act Salon, and other
businesses and residences across the U.S.A., in Canada and Greece.
Her residential work has also included accessible, barrier-free
designs for both a single family residence and a loft space. Ms.
Farrar-Wegener is an Adjunct Faculty Member for the Interior Design
degree program at Marylhurst University. Prior to founding
Z3, she was an interior designer with Scardina Design
Studio and has owned a custom fiberart studio in Greece, an art
gallery in Hong Kong, and directed a fine craft gallery in Florida.
From scholastic studies abroad and travel throughout Asia, Europe
and Africa, Ms. Farrar-Wegener has acquired extensive background
knowledge in architecture, art, design and textiles. In addition to
writing and lecturing on ethnic textiles, interior design, and
weaving, she has designed and exhibited award-winning fiber art and
has co-authored and published a technical weaving monograph. She
continues to travel always returning with new ideas and inspiration
for the studio’s projects.
Education and Associations
- National Council of Interior Design Qualification
(NCIDQ)
Certificate # 016218
- Women Business Enterprise Certificate # 3325
- Professional Member, International Interior
Design Association (IIDA). Past Vice-President of Chapters IIDA
International Board of Directors, Past IIDA Oregon Chapter
President.
- Associate Member, Home Builders Association of
Metropolitan Portland (Oregon)
- Associate and Steering Committee Member, HBAMP
Remodelors Council
- Honored Member, Lexington Who’s Who Registry of
Executives and Professionals
- Member, Portland Art Museum
- Bachelor of Fine Arts with concentration in
Interior Design, Marylhurst University, with honors
- Italian interior design and Renaissance art,
Studio Arts Centre International, Florence, Italy
- Textile Design, University of California, Santa
Cruz, California
- Textile Design, Pacific Basin School of Textile
Arts, Berkeley, California
- Biochemistry, Oregon State University, Corvallis,
Oregon
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