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100K House Facade Ideas

January 22, 2008

Well we’ve been getting a lot of feedback on the new facade debuted last week. I have also been running it by anyone who will listen to me and provide input as well in my offline life. I also have a meeting with the local neighborhood committee – The East Kensington Neighbors Association – to solicit feedback on the design prior to knocking on doors of the neighbors to introduce the project and seek further feedback before the design is finalized.

As stated before the new facade is the combination of a few factors that all happened within a 24 hour period and the team has not officially discussed the outcome yet.

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New Roof Profile to Cut Costs

January 14, 2008

I got an email over the weekend from ISA suggesting a new roof design for the 100k house that would be more economical than the existing two-tiered, flat roof with windows in between the two sections. Our final plans will be sent to Level 5 for bidding tomorrow so I quickly agreed that this was [...]

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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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Initial Sketches for 100K House

November 18, 2007

We’re thrilled to be getting this effort out of the ground.  Chad and I met each other in March at a Habitat for Humanity conference in Philadelphia and have been looking for a collaborative opportunity ever since.  Our office, ISA, has explored a series of approaches to dealing with the unique opportunities and challenges of [...]

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