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

Architizer

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. People want the best house they can have, and designing to Passive House is a great way to get them there.

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Desert modernism for the 21st century

Habitus Living

Externally the design employs a robust and timeless palette of in situ-concrete walls and roofs, anodized aluminium battens, minimalistic balustrading, feature breeze blocks, and honed concrete steps and terracing. Site poured, the concrete has been worked with two distinct finishes from standard form boards and rough-sawn Oregon.

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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

Architizer

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. They love it.

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What is Commercial Renovation?

The Architecture Designs

Conceptual design : This type of design allows you to be creative with your design without worrying about the budget. The architects come up with the most appealing and realistic design to show you what parts of your project you can improve. The conceptual design may be adjusted to fit within the designated budget.

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Documenting Architecture with Photos

Life of an Architect

I originally introduced this project to everyone in a post I wrote called “ Sketching during Schematic Design ” that I wrote back in November 2014. That post showed the process of going from initial concept to a finished schematic design plan that I would ultimately show the clients.

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Letters of an Architect: Lessons from my Best Projects

Community Architect

There are pros and cons regarding independent juries consisting of design professionals, funding jurors and users which "ordain" design solutions. But I knew no more about curtain walls, pressure glazing, expansion joints, underground parking, elevator machine rooms, forming a groundwater proof tub, or how to construct a green roof.

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