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Energy Positive Portable Classroom

2013/02/01 by admin

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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Harvard Yard Child Care Center

2010/01/01 by admin

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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Texas Prairie Hopper

2009/01/29 by admin

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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Kumamoto Zero House

2009/01/01 by admin

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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Autodesk Gallery at One Market, San Francisco

2008/01/01 by admin

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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Camel Back Shot Gun Sponge Garden

2007/01/01 by admin

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

2006/01/01 by admin

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

2006/01/01 by admin

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

2005/01/01 by admin

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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Cantilever House

2001/01/01 by admin

This prototype is to be built near Granite Falls, Washington, in the Cascade Mountains about 50 miles north east of Seattle. A second prototype is in the planning stages for an urban site in San Diego. This house is part of a series of projects that explore the opportunities for using prefabrication techniques and new [...]

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Schoepp-Thornton Addition

1996/01/01 by admin

A house addition for two artists and their children, this project asserts the independant character of this family while carefully fitting into a neighborhood of modest bungalows near the Kimball Museum in Fort Worth. The original house is left essentially untouched with new spaces built into an independant concrete block settled into the trees in [...]

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Fox Island Residence

1993/01/01 by admin

This project is one of a series of small houses designed to take advantage of the cost saving efficiencies of factory building without giving up the benefits of adaptation to specific requirements of individual building sites. With a particular focus on working with the hillside terrain common to the Pacific Northwest and Japan, this home [...]

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