Tag Archive for ‘Modern’
Visualizing Your Next Project with BIM
As EVstudio moves to full integration of the 3D BIM (Building Information Modeling) software Revit we are doing more and more basic renderings as a matter of course. Currently all architectural projects are completed 100% in Revit. Our structural department is gearing up and is currently completing about 75% of their projects in Revit. With [...]
The Prairie Style Home
The Prairie Style is often associated with Frank Lloyd Wright and the Arts and Crafts Movement of the early 1900s. One of his finest examples was the Robie House with its dramatic overhangs, stretches of art glass windows, open floor plan, and sweeping horizontal lines that echoed the prairies of the great Mid-West. The Prairie [...]
The Yellow Barn at Conifer: Early American Pre-fab in the Mountains
The historic “Yellow Barn” (well, it used to be more yellow than it is today) at the corner of Highway 73 and Barkley Road in Conifer has long been a well known and beloved landmark and icon of the mountain community. What many may not know, however, is that it and it’s two accompanying historic [...]
Denver Duplex Coming Soon!
We are in the final stages of construction drawings for a new duplex which will be going up at 35th Avenue and Quivas Street here in Denver. It is a great plan with a spacious bedroom and recreation room with wet bar in the lower level. The main level of each unit has a very [...]
Groundbreaking New Design for Red Fox Run in Evergreen Colorado
Through a collaborative effort with local contractor, Tomskin LLC, EVstudio has risen to the new challenge of redefining the mountain vernacular in the front range foothills just West of Denver, Colorado. Already a progressive community of well over 20,000 in population, Evergreen is well known for its natural mountain environment, combined with the mild weather of [...]
Phase Change Materials
Anyone who lives in the Denver area is familiar with the large difference between daytime and nighttime temperatures. Designing a home with proper solar orientation and thermal mass can help protect the interior of a home from these severe swings. In the summer thermal mass is shaded from direct sunlight so it doesn’t get hot. [...]
Haley Residence Framing Progress in Evergreen Colorado
Framing is underway at the Haley Residence in Evergreen. The house is built on four separate levels: the lower, garage, foyer, and main. The foundation is complete and framing for the lower and garage levels is in progress. The exterior material palette will be staggered metal shingle siding, antique barn wood siding, farmer’s rock, and standing seam rustic [...]
Organic Mountain Modern Floor Plan
One of our current projects is a series of modern homes with highly sustainable features. This is one of the floor plans from the series. Features of the Organic Modern Home include: • An engineered structural system to eliminate thermal bridging • Smaller footprint with open floor plan & compact shape • Structural Insulated Panels [...]
The Organic Modern Home – A Sustainable Design
We recently submitted the Organic Modern Home project for a design award for unbuilt architecture. We’re still anticipating some of these getting under way in 2010. In the meantime here’s the package that we put together to tell the story.
Mountain Modern 3-D Model in Freewheel
With the capabilities of Freewheel to allow for internet visuallization of our 3-D models, I wanted to try it out on our Mountain Modern project. The controls will take a bit of getting used to and we will continue to refine how we can integrate the interface more seamlessly into our magazine, but we’re pretty [...]
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