We recently had the opportunity to be involved in an interesting project. A homeowner approached Bruce Parker, a good friend of ours and the owner of Microhouse, with an interesting proposal. The homeowner had a beautiful little house that she had spent the past years restoring to its original early Seattle ‘craftsman’ glory. Unfortunately, this house had the misfortune to be small and located on a lot that was zoned L1, making it a prime target for redevelopment.
We were recently asked to design a cabin on a large rural site for a client
who envisions this as the first part of a complex of structures to house family
and friends. Future plans call for orchards, a fish pond, trails, guest
cottages and maybe even a distillery. What’s not to love? On top of that, the
cabin is going to use passive solar design and use rainwater collection for
potable and non potable uses. Right up our alley.
Below are a couple of early
design images. More soon.....
We’ve recently being seeing quite a lot of mention of the
idea of “open-source” architecture, and thought maybe it was worth a little
exploration. It seems to be a topic that
defies clear explanation but it also seemed to us to be a good opportunity to
talk a little bit about what architects do.
We are lucky enough over here at 5dotIHQ to be able to work on projects both
locally and abroad. Recently we were contacted by some friends of ours to
design a house for them in Maun,
Botswana. We
certainly enjoy working on projects here in Seattle but a little variety is always nice, especially
if that variety involves hyenas.
We are lucky enough over here at 5dotIHQ to be able to work on projects both
locally and abroad. Recently we were contacted by some friends of ours to
design a house for them in Maun,
Botswana. We
certainly enjoy working on projects here in Seattle but a little variety is always nice, especially
if that variety involves hyenas.
