Phoenix House (in-progress)
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In progress Berkeley CA Text coming soon
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Energy Positive Portable Classroom
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This portable classroom is designed to provide an optimized educational environment for students and teachers while advancing sustainable design principles. The classroom maximally conserves as well as collects and generates natural resources, including electrical energy, daylight, wind energy, and rainwater. As well as being strong, efficient and conserving, natural forces and resources are highlighted and [...]
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Wassaic House (in-progress)
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Wassaic, New York Text coming soon
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Sebastopol Barn House (in-progress)
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In-progress Sebastopol CA Text coming soon
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Menlo Park House
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Harvard Yard Child Care Center
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Harvard University commissioned a portable building to accommodate children from campus childcare facilities that are undergoing permanent renovation over the next several years. Initially expecting to use modular office trailers typical to the rental fleets of commercial modular builders, the project transformed into an ambitious prototyping project to produce a new standard for highly flexible, [...]
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Huckleberry House (in-progress)
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Plattekill, New York Text coming soon
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Texas Prairie Hopper
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This portable event pavilion is designed as a self-contained, off-grid modular structure with planted roof sections showcasing an innovative green roof technology allowing native Texas prairie grasses, yucca, prickly pear cactus and several hundred additional species to survive in Southwest climates without irrigation. The pavilion is scheduled to travel to a series of PGA tournaments [...]
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Enormous Plastic Rain Flower
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269 Urban Water Seminar, Fall 2009 University of California, Berkeley Department of California The business of architecture often attempts to justify its role in the economy by describing itself as a profession of efficient problem solvers. Although few clients believe this and actually bet their money on it, the concept still warps the profession in [...]
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Kumamoto Zero House
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Kumamoto, Kyushu Island, Japan This two bedroom, one bath home—built for two public school teachers on a hillside overlooking Kumamoto, Japan—is planned to become fully energy self-sufficient once all designed systems are phased in. The construction budget of US$154,000—an extremely modest budget by local Kumamoto standards—required a close collaboration of the architects and builder to [...]
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LIPS TOWER
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As fresh water resources rapidly diminish world wide, cities require new strategies for collecting, storing and distributing clean drinking water. This issue is most pressing in dense urban areas with limited available ground space, increasingly distant from secure and efficiently available natural aquifers. In most cities substantial energy resources are expended in routing and pumping [...]
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Autodesk Gallery at One Market, San Francisco
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A media-intensive, 16,000 square foot exhibition space for digital design and fabrication, this project was delivered under a fast track, design-build, Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) contract. The design and construction process took place entirely using collaborative Building Information Modeling (BIM). The project consists of exhibition galleries, artist-in-residence digital design studios, conference and education spaces, with [...]
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Bay Towers of Babel-On
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In the year 2108, the City of San Francisco has become a hyper-dense metropolis with a modern sense of its unique history and destiny. This is a city preserving deep and unsentimental memory of celebrated and chastening moments of courage, imagination, and crime; a smart and happy city, surrounded by agriculture, wilderness, and clean, bounteous [...]
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Schach House
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Self-built by the owner’s family, this concrete house overlooks the Pacific Ocean just south of San Francisco. Located on a small hillside site with stringent community zoning restrictions, the home gently contorts to maximize light and view within the complex zoning envelope and design restrictions. The frequently fogbound and chilly site required a sheltering form [...]
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Camel Back Shot Gun Sponge Garden
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New Orleans, Louisiana International Competition, First Prize This high-density urban housing landscape is designed as an environmental sponge absorbing climatic impacts and slowly filtering the captured water and energy back into their natural and human eco-systems. The site reaches out through the park to create an alluvial delta comb recapturing passing river sediment to slowly [...]
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Abiquiu House
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Designed for an anthropologist and a concert pianist, retiring from Phoenix, Arizona, to this small New Mexico town on a desert site fronting the Rio Chama—not far from Georgia O’Keefe’s famous home on the bluff above this house uses several relatively standard prefabrication systems. SIPs are used for the wall panels only, while the roof [...]
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Chameleon House
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Lake Michigan This house is a tower rising above the rolling topography of its cherry orchard site, peering outwards toward spectacular westward views of Lake Michigan and the surrounding agricultural landscape. The site is minimally disturbed, other than the mounding of two earthen enclosures adjacent to the tower, created from the excavated earth of the [...]
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Orchard House
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The Orchard House is a highly site-specific, cast concrete construction, rationally pre-fabricated through the use of a limited set of repeated, modular formwork, and standardized SIPS sandwich panel and pre-fabricated truss framing components. This approach allows a high degree of adaptability to the landscape, while keeping construction costs to a minimum. Sited within a mature [...]
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