Tag Archives: Innovation

The Habitat for Humanity House of the Future

January 5, 2012 – 8:30 am

It’s enlightening to compare two approaches to the same problem 50 years apart. During the 1962 World’s Fair in Seattle, housing exhibits provided a vision for the future of domestic life as exuberant modular assemblages packed with high-tech energy-intensive gadgets that did the living for you, built and powered by seemingly endless resources. Fifty years [...]

By Mike Jobes, Principal | Posted in Community, News, Observations | Also tagged , , | Comments (4)

Learning from Passive House

November 8, 2011 – 9:00 am

We have been fortunate over the last 2-1/2 years to be working on the Bullitt Center, a significant step forward — for us and hopefully for the industry — in the design of high performance buildings. The audacious goal is net zero energy use for a six-story urban office building. In addition to net zero [...]

By Jim Hanford, AIA | Posted in Community, Observations, Projects | Also tagged , , | Comments (9)

Grasshopper Helps Us Take Performance-Based Design Leaps

July 13, 2011 – 11:03 am

In addition to our office going all BIM (Revit) and adopting Ecotect as a standard analysis tool in the last four-five years, we have also recently been looking at how the use of Grasshopper might provide benefit to our design process. Grasshopper is a software tool that utilizes Rhino 3-D as a modeling platform to [...]

By Ben Dalton, LEED AP | Posted in Observations, Projects | Also tagged , , | Comments (1)

Constructing a Carbon Conscience

June 7, 2011 – 3:15 pm

You could say that I didn’t follow the typical architecture graduate student path. I wasn’t drawing floor plans or wishing my computer could render twice as fast. No, I was the spreadsheet girl; I spent my long nights in studio formulating spreadsheets that would formulate into diagrams (a hint of normal architectural thesis protocol). The [...]

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