Mixed use buildings are ones that usually house commercial spaces on the first floor (the public zone), and residential above. This formula has always been normal practice for urban spaces throughout history. Traditionally business owners would run their businesses and live above them. This idea evolved into a density solution that allowed the first floors […]
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Part of the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is to provide better environments for building occupants. Something we do every day but don’t think about much is breathing. Our lungs are very sensitive to contaminants and dust. If you have ever walked into a new building or been in a new car you
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If you’re the type of person who likes to climb into bed and watch TV or read a book before bed you probably don’t enjoy getting up to turn off the light. What I’d suggest is putting in a 3-way switch for your bedroom lights next to the bed along with the one by the
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I’ll let the images do the talking.
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In a continued effort to keep our readers informed of the most current construction cost trends on projects that EVstudio has experience in, below is the 2013 cost data from RSMeans, the industry leader in construction cost estimating. These costs are for the completed, finished building project and does not include land costs, entitlements costs, soft
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Nola Ruth Mixed Use Development Master Plan – Harker Heights, Texas The Nola Ruth Mixed Use Development is a project on 10 acres in Harker Heights, Texas. The project includes 70 units of housing, a community center building, a commercial office building and a public park. We created a design that breaks the typical suburban
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Our final color and material palette is below. This is one of the most conservative schemes in terms of color. The idea was to make most the building very basic but them make the canted, cantilevered walls pop out just that much more by using some earth tone colors. Let us know what you think
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EVstudio provided post tension foundation design for the recent St Francis of Assisi Church. The Church is being built by Fransen Pittman and designed by Architectural Innovations, LLC. This was a great project to be a part of. The project was an addition to an existing Church located on top of a hill over looking
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In the traditional architectural project the client will hire the architect and in turn the architect will bring on any consultants and engineers that are necessary to deliver the project. Recently, I’ve seen a number of clients who prefer to hire all of the consultants and engineers directly without the architect holding those contracts. The
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Thompson Log Residence – Southfork, Colorado The Thompson Residence is a custom log home designed for a custom site. This home offers dramatic views while maintaining a compact floor plan for efficient living and outdoor entertaining. It features additional log trusswork to accent the clean lines typical of an EVstudio designed Honka log home.
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Radiant Energy. Something that is so widely misunderstood, and yet has such a tremendous impact on our daily comfort. I have been doing some home study and experimentation in the field of radiant heat transfer in the context of a typical home’s heating and cooling needs and have stumbled across some truly revolutionizing concepts that
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While worksharing is an amazing tool, we have also encountered the rare occasion where we determined the best practice would be to revert a central model to an individual file. A simple process can remove the worksets from your central file and simplify the model to an individual file, but be aware that this cannot
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