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New Renderings and Floorplans for 100K Project

June 27, 2008

ISA has been working on some new renderings for the 100K project due to some contests and articles we are working on. The first image below of the 100K rendering plopped onto the actual site is probably my favorite image generated to date. Definitely follow the link to the full-size flickr image on this one. [...]

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100K House Design/Build Service?

May 21, 2008

Our team was contacted a few weeks ago by a Philadelphia reader interested in having us design and build a similar home as the 100K House in the neighborhood. We are having our first meeting with them tonight. This has raised a new question for our team here. “Can we as a team offer affordable [...]

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First Interior Renderings of the 100K House

April 24, 2008

You’ve all been patient with our decreased posting the past few weeks so ISA decided to reward you all with the first interior renderings of the home. I’ll save my thoughts for later an let you guys comment first. If you’ve always wanted to comment but never have, now’s your chance. Also, before someone mentions [...]

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New Renderings from ISA with Hardie & Stucco Siding

March 19, 2008

I noticed today that it’s been a while since I’ve posted any pretty pics so here are the latest renderings from ISA. We have been discussing how to create an interesting, modern and affordable facade for weeks and this is what we’ve gravitated towards. You can see that we have a bit of a vertical [...]

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New Floorplans and Elevations from ISA

February 21, 2008

ISA and I have had a few meetings since the discussions on the new floorplans last week. If you look closely you will notice that we have incorporated some reader suggestions such as surrounding the new bathroom layout with closet space rather than having them run the length of the side wall. Special thanks to [...]

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New Exploded View of 100K House from ISA

January 31, 2008

I just got back from Interface‘s office where I saw a cool new diagram of the 100K House posted on their wall. Here it is for your viewing pleasure. Click on the link to see the full image via Flickr. The astute eye will notice a bit more detail and a few modifications from the [...]

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Addendum to New Plans

January 6, 2008

I’ve received a couple of questions about the new plans so I thought I would clarify what will be changing in the next week. We had a design meeting last week and finished with a rough sketch of what would be changed in the final iteration. Here’s the list: The kitchen and core module on [...]

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Updated Plans from ISA

January 6, 2008

Interface delivered new plans with much greater detail in one of our recent meetings. We have had one design meeting since and will have the final versions available in about another week. A lot of the interior and exterior finishes are called out in this iteration as well. It’s been a lot of fun getting [...]

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Taking ISA’s “Core” Concept to the Next Level?

December 13, 2007

Ever since Nick Allen posted the comment below earlier today I’ve been obsessed with the concept of turning ISA’s “Core” concept in their design into a prefab element.

co-lab co-Pod image

While we gave up on prefabbing entire homes long ago due to cost and the constraints of Philly’s narrow infill lots, there could be something to the combination of SIPs and locally prefabbed “ISA Cores” that could be “dropped” into the shell of a house to expedite the construction timeline…

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Best Design from Yesterday’s Design Meeting

December 1, 2007

We had a very successful design meeting at ISA yesterday. We reviewed about five different floorplan and elevation options they had come up with in the past few weeks as well as the direction they would like to head for the exterior and facades. Below is the design that most closely resembles our favorite option [...]

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