Imagine the time when you take your laptop to a prospect’s home. You open SketchList and pull up the design for her entertainment center. You created that design in 30 minutes by modifying an existing project. The prospect makes some suggestions — TV here, bar there, and so on, and yo...
is our motto, leaving the selection of the first twig to you, and that is who you choose as your Architect, a twig that will bring dreams beyond your comprehension into reality, and understanding that behind every great work of Architecture is the client who was open minded enough to make...
For relevant information see the “Pretty Good House” website. We design and detail these projects with those principles in mind and are involved with further development of the Pretty Good House concept. . VSH5 Simple and Clean - a variation on the original VSH4 $12000 This is a slightly...
” developers such as Joseph Eichler and his imitators built houses that featured floor-to-ceiling glass walls, open floor plans, exposed post-and-beam
and the concept was novel enough that my kids were more willing to try something new. Back then, I thought I’d made up the muffin-tin meal concept, but it turns out lots of parents do the same thing. Well, not quite the same; they’re much more clever. Check outMuffin Tin Mondays...
For modelling, the idea of simplicity is also appealing, both in terms of the concept of Occam's Razor (a simple model is ceteris paribus preferable to a complex one), and for the reasons that simple models are easier to understand (and so validate) and use (thus encouraging the ...
Instead, God wants us to open our eyes and see that all our bones are still there. We’re still alive and breathing. We may be stuck in a tree on the side of a mountain. But we’re going to be all right. There’s a light breeze. Tree branches brush up against the window. ...
Based in Indianapolis, Joe and his team oversee every phase of the development process, from concept through leasing. They also provide specialized services such as green building design and historic reha- bilitation aimed at drawing people back to downtown areas. "I'm a big believer in ...
To better understand the concept of boundedly difficult problems, let us first consider two extreme cases: the OneMax problem and the needle-in-a-haystack problem (NIAH). In the OneMax problem, the fitness value of a binary chromosome is defined as the number of ones in the chromosome (the...
A 3D design model illustrates a static concept. A 4D building information model (BIM) is put together to publish and print a set of specifications, 2D contract documents, and material takeoffs. A construction model is a piece-based assembly used to simulate a dynamic process. It animates ...