Visualization
Heights on the River – New Haven Independent
A city developer plans to create a mini-neighborhood of middle-income apartments and local stores done in the architectural style of the historical oystering village along the East Grand Avenue side of the Quinnipiac River — an idea a previous builder tried and failed to carry out. The builders, Juan Salas-Romer and Noel Petra of NHR…
Read MoreHow We Created a Computer Model of a Patchwork Historic Structure
Esana MedSpa’s new Guilford office will occupy a very unique building—a historic post-and-beam wood timber house. Originally built in 1797 per town records, the structure was renovated, extended, and a large 2-story wood barn was attached in 1997. Our renovation went to great lengths to highlight the interior structure of the new and old, featuring…
Read MoreThe Challenge of Designing Lighting for Medical Offices
Lighting is a vital aspect of any building project. For our purposes, the term “lighting” means the use of light – the medium created naturally by the sun or fire, or artificial sources like electrical lamp – to achieve an intended practical or aesthetic effect. The key word for us is “intended.” As designers we…
Read MorePROJECT SHARE: 3D PRINTED MODEL FOR FISHERS ISLAND RESIDENCE
We are exploring using high and low technology on this architecture site model of the Fishers Island residence. We used our Makerbot to 3D print the house, and cut mat board for the site contours. We also added a colored hand-drawn landscape plan to the contours to make it “pop”.
Read MoreProject Share: Virtual Tour of 27 Stack Street apartments
Join us on a virtual, high-definition video tour of our historic mill adaptive reuse project at 27 Stack Street in Middletown! In our latest visualization showcase, we’ve created a four-part video series of our proposed conversion of a disused two-story factory building into 19 units of affordable housing. Each video segment was created in-house, using…
Read MoreMeet “Thing”, our Office’s New Design Tool- a 3D Printer
“Thing, Thing…what is that Thing?”- Dr. Seuss We’d like to introduce one of our latest design tools: Meet “Thing”, a desktop 3D printer from Makerbot, that lets us take our designs from the virtual realm of the computer screen and into the real world. We’ve been using Thing for a few months now. It’s a great tool for…
Read MoreProject Share: Adaptive Reuse of Historic Mill Building
This former silk manufacturing building in Middletown, CT is being converted into affordable apartments. The former loading dock annex becomes the entry to the building, with a front porch, the main office and post office boxes located there. A pedestrian walk takes you from the street to the entrance, with room for bicycles, and close…
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