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Whittaker Parsons creates courtyard house in south London

Deezen

The home was designed based on the concept of lagom Working with one of the clients, Price & Myers associate structural engineer George Reed, the studio aimed to ensure that the project was as sustainable as possible. "We

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How SCAPE Flipped the Design Script In Memphis

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Riffles, pools, eddies, and tailouts inform the early bubble diagram about potential park programming. Civil Engineer Kimley-Horn, Memphis, Tennessee. Structural Engineer Thornton Tomasetti, Chicago. M/E/P Engineer Innovative Engineering Services, Memphis, Tennessee. Slidell, Lousiana.

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Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet: O

SW Oregon Architect

Working with Miyamoto International for structural engineering services, our team’s solution employed a cost-effective and reliable system of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) strips added at critical locations to assist in the transference of lateral forces.

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This New Zealand Holiday Home Is as Cozy as a Cocoon

Dwell

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners.

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A Wood Canopy With Netting Fills Out a Glass-Wrapped New York Apartment

Dwell

Like inhabitable diagrams, these installations can be read as two fragments of a 3D-gridded matrix—the timber framework expressing x-, y-, and z- lines of interconnecting spatial relations." Post it here.

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Blood, Sweat, and Tears: The Birch Fircrest House

SW Oregon Architect

They took full advantage of available software tools, including Ladybug , which combines geometry in Rhino and the parametric interface of Grasshopper with open-source weather data from EnergyPlus to create climate analysis graphics and diagrams. 1) The structural engineer for the house was Jok Ang, PE, SE of MAE Engineering.

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In Hawaii, This Off-Grid Concrete House Is Powered by Its Snack-Inspired Form

Dwell

The diagram of the house is simple—an outdoor triangle within an indoor triangle supporting a diamond shaped roof. Post it here. Like a ship’s prow, the sharpest end of this triangular house deflects the formidable wind. " The house gets its name from its resemblance in plan to the Hawaiian version of the Japanese wrapped rice snack onigiri.