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FLOAT has written 13 posts for F L O A T

Weekend Design Challenge

“Local patron Sonia Dhillon-Marty invites teams made up of Stanford students and professional architects to her property, Champ de Portola, for a two-day design charrette and competition. The winning design will be built on her property by 2014. This experimental learning project proposed by Dhillon-Marty and the Dhillon Marty Foundation is a collaboration with the … Continue reading »

Sisters Mobile Artist Studios

With funding from the Roundhouse Foundation, Erin Moore and architecture students from the University of Oregon are collaborating to generate design ideas for a prototype mobile, live/work art studio for Sisters.  The idea is to make creative space available in town on currently under used commercial or  industrial locations as an investment in arts-based economic … Continue reading »

CEK cabin

A tiny second floor for a tiny tidewater log cabin in Southeast Alaska. It’s not really about being indoors here but if you do want to sit by the window, you will surely see whales. Biggest challenge–planning for cleaning salt and gook from the outside of the upper window. Best quote from owner’s house guest–”this … Continue reading »

Rainette

  This project is a small off-grid retreat on a rural site in Bordeaux, France. A steel exoskeleton supports a polycarbonate roof over a 120 sq. ft. wood framed interior box. Window locations are located to emphasize foreground and background views and the butterfly roof funnels rain water to a cistern that provides habitat for … Continue reading »

Watershed in Architecture Houses Now! 2

Architecture Houses Now! 2, Philip Jodidio (NY: Taschen, 2011)

Watershed in New Prefab

New Prefab, Sergio Costa (Barcelona: Loft, 2008)

Watershed in 200 Outstanding House Ideas

200 Outstanding House Ideas, Esther Moreno and Bridget Vranckx (NY: Firefly, 2008)

Watershed in Tiny Houses

Tiny Houses, Mimi Zeiger (NY: Rizzoli, 2009)

Watershed in Financial Times, London

Financial Times, August 2009

Watershed in Fine Home Building

Fine Home Building, April 2009

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