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|  | Modern, sustainable designed, prefab homes built from reclaimed materials. Our beautiful, energy sipping homes feature single pitch roofs for solar and rain catchment systems, cross-wind ventilation, recycled newspaper insulation and reclaimed 100-year old hardwood oak flooring.
Our whole-community process benefits neighborhoods by removing eyesores and hazards, preventing the material form ending up in landfills and properly valuing the material for respectful reuse in new construction. |
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|  | The residence is an environmentally conscious, modern home performing completely off the grid. Being the first LEED platinum home (confirmation pending) in the Metropolitan area, the use of solar and wind technologies aim to promote the revitalization of the surrounding neighborhood. Less than one block from a medical center and a middle school provides an excellent location to showcase a sustainable residential prototype. |
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|  | Catch the Currency of GO!
Defy the wave of the current economic, political, and social climate by declaring “Who said, Money doesn’t grow on trees?” This is the motto of the groundbreaking 12 story luxury hotel which features a silkscreen of currency flow in its exterior glass panels. This façade composite of ventilating masonry is combined with a glass composite of exterior and interior glazing, a low E coating and a silk screen made of retired currency from the Federal Reserves. |
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|  | Currently, a cycle of misuse occurs during typical construction, remodel and [often] deconstruction activity, involving single and multi-family residential structures: The materials remaining (during the construction & remodeling processes) after new construction has occurred, are undervalued. Concurrently, human capital, natural capital and financial capital are all jeopardized by traditional building techniques. This entry addresses a different approach to these concerns. |
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|  | The visitors’ center design roots the building firmly in its woodland context by blurring distinctions between in- and outdoors, and by placing the building’s lifecycle within that of the forest. Construction emphasized safe, closed material loops of biological nutrients, which break down and safely return to forest soil, and technical nutrients, which are remanufactured into new objects. Mechanical connections and reconfigurable modules allow for building alterations with safe material use. |
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