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It uses sliding partitions and storage walls, extension modules and a puzzle of garden components. Danish architects Henning Larsen's new Adaptable House is designed to accommodate the most common lifestyle changes, from having children to settling into retirement. The energy-efficient home can even be fairly separated in case of divorce.

Realized with developers Realdania Byg and contractors GXN, the Adaptable House not only offers flexible room arrangements, but has a built-in strategy for extending and separating volumes. The house has also been designed to consume 37 percent less energy than a standard home, with a significant reduction in overall carbon emissions.

The Adaptable House was conceived to help meet a range of lifestyle changes. For a growing family, bedrooms can be easily added or enlarged; when children leave home, spare rooms might be converted for other uses. There are also planned schemes for working from home, taking in boarders (in which some bedrooms would be separated from other private spaces), and aging inhabitants (for whom the garden decks and planters could be made step-free).

Perhaps the most innovative and coolly pragmatic gesture is in adapting for divorce. In this scenario, the house can be divided horizontally, separating the upper floor from the lower floor, adding a kitchen upstairs and creating separate entrances. This is, of course, the most extreme scenario (and assumes a rather amicable split). The lower floor could also be separated for use by an elderly couple who need to live on a single floor. In all cases, the idea is to adapt to changing circumstances without having to move house or tear down and start again.

Sliding partitions make flexible interiors (Photo: Jesper Ray/Realdania Byg)

The architects were determined that any new configurations meet their criteria for natural light, ventilation, plus noise and temperature control. This is perhaps what distinguishes this project from the kind of flexible open-plan living that has been around for decades. The new spaces are not just clever cut-outs, like making a bedroom out of a dark closet under the stairs. Future configurations have been thought through, so that creating the home-office space, for example, utilizes a glazed partition that allows ample light but blocks out noise.

The extension program works by starting with a house of 146 square meters (1,571 sq ft) consisting of two stories, with an optional garage/extension. The ground floor has fixed walls, which carry the load of the upper floor and leave the internal walls upstairs free to move. On the ground floor, the house can be extended beneath the first-floor overhangs. The upper floor can also be extended by enclosing the terraces. Decking around the house creates accessible garden spaces, which can be maximized for older or retired residents.

Though the ground floor has some fixed walls, the services have been tucked into an aluminum bar in the ceiling structure, making it easier to change the floor plan as needed. Partition walls include their own doors and storage, and can be moved around to reconfigure the interior without worrying about electrical fittings. Sliding partitions can be used on an impromptu or daily basis, if say, you need to have a business meeting in your living room and want to close off the kitchen and kids play area from view.

Upstairs, the partition walls are designed as moveable cupboards, which can transform the layout from a single space covering the entire floor to four separate rooms, and other configurations in between.

The architects cite statistics which show that even when people decide to move house, most of them will choose to live in the same area. The Adaptable House will mean never having to leave the neighborhood. So you might say their motto is something like "plus a change" ("the more things change, [the more they stay the same]") for the housing industry.

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Grapevine, Texas (PRWEB) February 05, 2014

KSQ Architects is pleased to announce the addition of Douglas Koehne, AIA, as the firms Director of K-12 Planning. He will be responsible for design, programming, planning, and project management for K-12 school districts across Texas and the Southwest, and work out of the firms office in Grapevine, Texas.

Founded in 1988, KSQ Architects is a full-service architectural firm that specializes in collegiate life, K-12, and multi-family housing facilities throughout the U.S. The firm offers programming, planning, architectural and interior design services.

Koehnewho has 20 years of experience in planning, facility assessment, programming, and design of both new school construction and facility renovations and modernizationhas completed school projects throughout the state of Texas. During his career he has led bond projects and handled the master planning for multiple Dallas-Fort Worth and North Texas school districts, including Richardson ISD, Arlington ISD, and Maypearl ISD. His project experience extends to over 100 completed education projects.

Douglas impact on K-12 educational design in Texas is undeniable, says KSQ Principal Sean Studzinski. His professional background will compliment the goals and objectives of KSQ Architects as we continue to establish long term relationships with school administrators in Texas and beyond.

Douglas holds a Bachelor of Architecture from The University of Texas at Austin. His educational involvement includes the AIA Committee on Architecture for Education, Texas Association of School Boards, and the Council of Educational Facility Planners International. Additionally, Douglas plays an active role in public-community service through his participation in the Green Corn Project, The 1% Pro Bono Design Program of Public Architecture, and as a Habitat for Humanity volunteer.

In addition to being named as one of the Best Firms to Work For and the #29 Hot Firm out of 100 by Zweig White, KSQ is also a Top 300 Design Firm by Architectural Record and recently opened a new office in Colorado.

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ABOUT KSQ ARCHITECTS With offices in Oklahoma, New York, Texas, and Colorado, KSQ Architects is a full-service planning, architecture and interior design firm specializing in higher education, K-12 schools and multifamily housing throughout the United States. KSQ has completed projects nationwide on more than 47 campuses totaling $1 billion in construction.

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Palatine Fire Station 85 will not move next to village hall, officials decided late last year, but the cost and overall square footage for the remaining village hall project is expected to remain the same.

Village councilmen Monday night accepted a revised village hall remodel design by Wold Architects. Councilmen also directed Village Manager Reid Ottesen to negotiate the remaining architectural services contract.

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In the next Gigaom Research webinar, our analysts along with Juniper Networks will discuss the compelling survey results on the topics of cloud computing and software-defined networking. This live session takes place on Feb. 13 at 9:00 a.m. PT.

During the month of Jan. 2014, Gigaom Research and Juniper Networks polled close to 250 network architects, engineers and managers at large enterprises in North America on the topics of cloud computing and software-defined networking, revealing some fascinating insights.

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HARRISONBURG, Va.--- The architects working on the construction of a new school in Harrisonburg presented four options to the school board on Tuesday.

The new school attempts to make room for more students in the future. According to a Weldon Cooper Center projection, the number of students from kindergarten to 12th grade is expected to increase by 16.9 percent by 2018. Currently, there are 5,131 students in K-12, that number is expected to be closer to 6,000 in 2018.

Most of the options introduced by Crabtree, Rohrbaugh & Associates Architects would have construction costs of up to $44 million.

The first option would keep Thomas Harrison as a middle school and renovate it. The school board could choose between two upgrades. One of the upgrades would cost up to nearly $3.3 million. The second one could cost $4.8 million.

The second option would renovate THMS and build a new pre-kindergarten to 5th grade elementary school on an 11-acre site on Garbers Church road.

The third option would convert THMS to a pre-k to 5th elementary school. It would construct a new 900-student middle school.

Option four would convert THMS to a pre-k to 5th elementary school and build a new 1,100-student middle school.

Neighbors like Susan Dinsmore said the road is too busy and other neighbors ask the board to look into other costs before deciding.

"If they don't know the life cycle of the building to make an appropriate decision about how much they would spend on the building because what is important is the annual cost of operating and maintaining that building," said Tom Domonoske.

The architects favor option number four. This one could cost between $41 million to $44 million.

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Junya Ishigami, one of Japan's youngest and brightest architects will visit Sydney this week to deliver a one-off public lecture at the University of Sydney on Friday 7 February.

Considered one of the most controversial architects in the last ten years, Junya Ishigami is known for his exceptionally delicate, artistic works that redefine an intimate relationship between art and architecture.

Dr Peter Armstrong, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning is full of praise of Ishigami's forward thinking work: "In the unstable world of threatening environmental and economic disaster, Ishigami has created masterly buildings that respond to place and time, a veritable architecture of the floating world."

In just over a decade, Junya Ishigami has built a prolific body of international work that extends across buildings, landscape, installations and furniture. He has earned an enviable list of international awards and has participated in several prestigious exhibitions including the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2008 and 2010.

In 2008 Junya Ishigami completed his first building, the Kanagawa Institute of Technology's KAIT Workshop, a floor to ceiling, glass-enclosed, rectangular structure in which the interior space is divided by 305 slender pillars. He also completed the Yohji Yamamoto New York flagship boutique, located on a narrow triangular site in lower Manhattan. His radical design saw the existing building split in two to create a pedestrian way, connecting the two streets.

He is possibly best known for his art installation 'Balloon', a helium filled, floating, steel-like structure that is the size of a five-storey building, which to the visitor's eye is seemingly heavy, yet is set afloat within the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.

Junya Ishigami will deliver his first public lecture at the University of Sydney for industry and staff and students from the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning. The architect will give a personal insight to projects from his early years and more recent signature works.

About Junya Ishigami

Born in Kanagawa, Japan, Junya Ishigami graduated in 2000 from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music with an MFA in Architecture. He joined the office of Kazuyo Sejima & Associates in the same year. Then in 2004, he established his own practice Junya Ishigami + Associates in Tokyo.

His office has won several awards including the Lakov Chernikhov International Prize for Young Architects (2008), the Architectural Institute of Japan Prize (2009) for KAIT Workshop, and the Golden Lion for the Best Project of the 12th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale for "Architecture as Air: Study for Chateau la Coste" (2010).

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