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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. 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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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. The home's steep, rocky site can be seen through large windows. Project credits: Architecture: WOVEN Architecture and Design. Interiors: Sophie Burke Design.

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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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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. The upper floor bedroom is intimate and extraordinary with a large bath featured at the window side in the open plan.

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2022 Projects in the Pipeline

SW Oregon Architect

LCC Health Professions Building - Schematic Design Phase rendering It’s my pleasure to currently work with Tom on the new Health Professions Building project. Robertson/Sherwood/Architects is the architect-of-record, and our frequent collaborator, Mahlum Architects , is providing design leadership.

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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. Team Members.

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