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Re-framed Initiative – Study of Retrofit Schematic Designs

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An Architect’s Guide To: Designing Your First Passive House

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Passive house construction and high-performance windows and doors in this townhouse addition allowed us to create walls of glass with an indoor-outdoor experience to a roof deck clear of all mechanicals. Many of our clients come to us seeking a high level of design and simply the best home they can have. Photos by Peter Peirce, Inc.

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Singapore’s new Science Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects

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The new Science Centre will feature a Children’s Gallery that is more than twice the size of the existing gallery and include its own interactive outdoor waterplay area, discovery trails in the secondary forest as well as a sensory trail on the roof garden. Image © Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA).

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Woven perches Sakinaw Lake House on rocky hillside in British Columbia

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The top volume steps back, allowing for a terrace atop the bottom bar's roof. Large stretches of glass are partly shaded by overhanging roofs. Project credits: Architecture: WOVEN Architecture and Design. Interiors: Sophie Burke Design. Schematic design consultant: Phillip Van Horn.

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Romney Hall Renovation at Montana State University by Cushing Terrell

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Photo © Karl Neumann Built in the Italian Renaissance Revival style, the building has a beautifully detailed tapestry brick façade featuring unique terra cotta spandrels decorated with sporting equipment, large wood and steel windows, copper detailing, and a barrel-vaulted metal roof.

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Refining Design – The Design Development Phase

Matt Fajkus Architecture

After the schematic design phase has been completed and a viable project budget has been developed, it is time to design the building’s structural system, layer in mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems, and refine the design of functional spaces. Typically, the owner and architect will have 3 or more meetings.

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Woven Designs L Shape Vacation Home Vertes Retreat

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Flat roofs hover above two wings of the home, providing large overhangs and covered outdoor spaces. Flat roofs were proposed to allow for inside-outside relationships during rainy periods with floor to ceiling glass and skylights being utilized to provide maximum natural light. © Woven Architecture and Design. Consultants.

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