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Construction Diary: It Took a Decade, But Their Experimental, DIY Home Was Worth the Wait

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69-acre Portland lot for $285,000 in 2012. The first phase took a year and a half—seven months for demolition, planning, and permitting; and ten months for building, ending in a 2014 move-in. Before: The couple used the home’s original foundation and added a small addition of about 700 square feet, for a new total of 3,610 square feet.

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More dishing on Brad Pitt

Architecture Here and There

Experimental houses built by Brad Pitt’s Make It Right foundation. Pitt formed a foundation called Make It Right to build 150 affordable, ecologically sustainable houses. The foundation could not create groovy new houses with shape-bending features and then sell them for a mere $150,000. Flicker/Commons).

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Ten buildings that became embroiled in legal battles

Deezen

Following protests from community groups, the court had decided that a permit for the building to climb to 52 floors should not have been issued as it exceeded the zoning limit. million settlement paid to homeowners, who had reported water leaks, black mould and problems with foundations soon after moving in.

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Serpentine Pavilion 2023, London

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Additionally, we have used pre-cast concrete pads for the second year in a row, which lowers the total amount of carbon embodied in the project and permits reuse of same foundation when the Pavilion is rebuilt in its permanent position.”

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Introducing the CHouse Modern | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

If you want to know how this trellis might look, here is the basic concept [ Modern Trellis ] that I covered on the site April 2012 – which turned out terrific. Our first visit out to the site was two weeks ago as the foundation was just beginning. Rough grading of the site with the foundation form boards laid in place.

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KHouse Modern - Progress Update 03 | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

While it might not be very sexy to look at downspouts and foundation vents, they do exist and we want to make sure that their locations are addressed now. In the rendering above, on the left-hand side, you can see where the downspout and the foundation vent are in close proximity to one another.

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Architectural Sketches | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Since there isn’t a ground plane in my model, that’s why the foundation is casting shadows. This is a print out from a SketchUp study model and I added some pen weight and shading, and some profile lines to help where the section was cut. This sketch is also from the KHouse Modern.

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