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2014 Laid Bare: Part 2 // Featuring Pierce The Veil, Architects, Tonight Alive, Mallory Knox + More!
In the second part of our year in review video series, You Me At Six #39;s Josh Franceschi tells us about that Number One record, Jeremy McKinnon recalls A Day To Remember #39;s House Party show in...
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Boyce Thompson's book features the Home for the New Economy and its adaptable suite on the first floor.
Boyce Thompson, 59, spent 17 years working with builders and architects to create concept homes for Builder magazine, using ideas that builders could put to use in their own projects. Thompson, former editorial director of Builder and a writer and lecturer on the building industry, is the author of "The New New Home" (Taunton Press, $27). He spoke with The Record recently about new home technologies, how home buyers and builders changed after the housing bust, and what might surprise you about his own home. An edited transcript:
Q. What are some of the ideas that you used in the concept homes that are now in wider use?
Virtually all the homes had an energy agenda. Right from the beginning, we realized that was a way for new homes to stand out in the marketplace.
When we first started building the houses, open floor plans weren't nearly as prevalent as they are today. We extended that trend to the max.
The designs almost always integrated the back yard with the house; they typically had back porches, whether screened or not.
One big trend we used is the disappearing glass wall a wall of windows that opens up. They used to cost $40,000; now you can get a reasonable facsimile for about $5,000. You can have these beautiful spaces living rooms, dining rooms, great rooms with window walls that open onto porch spaces and create the feeling that it's all one big space.
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This "live work" project was built on an urban infill site in Atlanta, and it has prospered.
I did a net zero house [which produces as much energy as it uses] before net zero was cool; we built our first one in 2005. We realized that you have to first build the most energy-efficient structure you can. Then after you've made it real tight, you figure out how many photovoltaics to put on the roof.
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GTA 5 (PS4) - Mission #60 - Architects Plans [Gold Medal]
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Interview with Tim Carl at HGA Architects on Greater MSP Business
The faade says 1929 classic elegance but the theater inside says 2014 and beyond. Northrop Auditorium on the University of Minnesota campus has undergone a million-dollar renovation that...
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Back in September, we reported on Vo Trong Nghia Architects' ongoing effort to produce a suitable home for Vietnam's poor. The latest iteration of the firm's low-cost S House sees the prototype home refined, and the prefabricated dwelling now sports a more stable structure, and an impressive on-site build time of just three hours.
Completed in November and installed in Ho Chi Minh City, the S House 3 has just one large interior space inside that measures 31.6 sq m (340 sq ft). Whereas the previous S House was built from a pre-cast concrete frame bolted together with steel fixings, this newest version comprises a lightweight steel framework, cement board cladding, and a reinforced concrete foundation.
"The aim of this serial project is to provide stable but lightweight, permanent but affordable homes for low-income earners in a harsh tropical climate," says Vo Trong Nghia Architects. "Although there are many local challenges such as weak ground condition, frequent typhoon and potential earthquake, the structure is stable enough to withstand natural disasters."
As was the case with its predecessor, the S House 3 features a small gap between its roof and walls, and several operable windows to encourage ventilation. Though it weighs 1,200 kg (2,645 lb), individual components are designed to be no more than 60 kg (132 lb), in order to allow easier transportation via shipping container or small boat.
Once on-site, it should take builders only around three hours to assemble the S House, and Vo Trong Nghia Architects reports that occupants will be able to maintain and repair it with relative ease.
We're awaiting confirmation from Vo Trong Nghia Architects on the expected cost of this model, though as the stated goal of the S House project is to produce an affordable home for poor Vietnamese, and the previous S House iteration cost just US$4,000, it should be relatively affordable. On that note, the firm hopes to eventually start selling the homes all over Vietnam, South East Asia, and elsewhere, including India and African countries.
Some work still remains for the project though, and there will be at least one further version of the S House before it hits the market.
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The dilapidated religious complex of Sant Francesc in Santpedor, Spain was in such bad shape that in 2000 the site's convent was demolished by the state, with only a modest church left standing. The roof of the remaining structure, which was built by Franciscan monks between 1721 and 1729, had fallen in, and the vaults of the chapel and the nave had sunk. By the time the Spanish architect David Closes began work on it, the ceiling of the church has crumbled so much that the building's arresting interior was flooded with natural light, an unintentional improvement that the architect decided to model his renovation around. The complicated reconstruction of the fragile early 18th-century church, along with a new glass addition and a major renovation of the interiors, took seven years.
Closes added a pair of skylights, and windows were created from holes and collapsed parts of the building. The architect wanted to keep the church's "historical wounds" on display. "Rather than reconstructing the church, the intervention consolidated the old fabric" and "clearly distinguished the new elements from the original ones," he writes. Contrasting mightily with the old stones, a dramatic glass addition was attached to the exterior of the building, so as not to interrupt the spatial qualities of the nearly three-century-old chapel.
The updated building is now used as a cultural center and auditorium. "The intervention preserves the historical heritage of the building and simultaneously adds new values which highlight and singularize the ancient church in a contemporary way," the architect explains. Photos, below:
Photo by Jordi Surroca via David Closes Architects
Photo by Jordi Surroca via David Closes Architects
Photo by Jordi Surroca via David Closes Architects
Photo by Jordi Surroca via David Closes Architects
Photo by Jordi Surroca via David Closes Architects
Photo by Jordi Surroca via David Closes Architects
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