Link to Current LamiDesign Blog — by Gregory La Vardera — posted on 04-07-2008 13:03 — 1 comment(s) —

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Due to the outstanding coverage on LiveModern of Blogs dedicated to Modern Houses including my own I've decided to halt posting into the blog forms here and concentrate on the blog hosted at my own site, lamidesign.com

0751 Suburban House - project background — by Gregory La Vardera — posted on 03-20-2008 12:39 — 0 comment(s) —

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In a departure from the usual blog topics here I'm going to be starting a series of posts about local project, a custom home, that I've designed for a client here in the Delaware Valley region. While this is not a stock plan or a prefab several of the design schemes that we ultimately abandoned during the design process may ultimately find second life as a house design in our stock plan catalog. So, while we will eventually arrive at what was the final design, its going to be more about the journey and looking at the sketches of the house designs we left behind, and seeing if any of them generate some enthusiasm and longing! Lets being with some background on the project so you can understand some of the influences, pressures, and limitations imposed on the design.

Virgina Plat House - windows in — by Gregory La Vardera — posted on 03-08-2008 14:36 — 0 comment(s) —

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The windows have been delvered and installed at the Virginia Plat House. Closed in, if not completely weather tight, they are in the clear to begin HVAC, plumbing, and electrical work inside.

Letters from Sweden - a window's tale — by Gregory La Vardera — posted on 02-24-2008 00:37 — 0 comment(s) —

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In our last installment of the Letters from Sweden we looked at the panelization technique used by the Swedes and some of the administrative barriers to its adoption here. Today we'll pick up where we left off and consider some of the products that go into the Swedish panels and how they support the panel building technique. We'll look at windows, how Swedish window units are different than US window units, and how this plays out in the construction.

Virgina Plat House - wrapping up — by Gregory La Vardera — posted on 02-23-2008 01:04 — 0 comment(s) —

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A quick update of the Virginia Plat House . Since the last entry the wall and roof sheathing has been installed and the house wrap is on. The owner reports that windows are on the way.

Letters from Sweden - panel building in Sweden vs the USA — by Gregory La Vardera — posted on 02-07-2008 19:06 — 0 comment(s) —

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Ok, we've been beating around the bush, setting the stage, trying to understand the context in which this Swedish building method exists. If you've been following the series you get it, its dark, its cold, there is no building system for the better part of the year. They need a factory based system to have an industry there, and so they do. Lets look at it.

Austin Porch House - Plat House comes into its own — by Gregory La Vardera — posted on 02-03-2008 03:30 — 0 comment(s) —

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Siding panels are going up on the Austin Porch House project and the big news is the progress of the Plat House. Last we saw a bunch of sticks going up - in the new set of photos from the owner it is now most certainly a house.

Austin Porch House - roof's on, Plat House framing up — by Gregory La Vardera — posted on 01-21-2008 23:08 — 0 comment(s) —

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A big update from our customer in Austin. The Porch House is moving right along and is all sheathed in and under roof. The adjacent Plat House which they are also building - yes its a Camp House compound - is well under way with the framing going vertical. The Owner has over a dozen new photos for us which you can see in a photo browser after the jump.

Virginia Plat House - shell framing complete — by Gregory La Vardera — posted on 01-21-2008 10:18 — 0 comment(s) —

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A few new photos from the owner of the Virginia Plat House show the wall and roof sheathing beginning to go up. He reports that it is all up at the time he forwarded these new photos.

Nova Scotia Plat House mod — by Gregory La Vardera — posted on 01-20-2008 00:26 — 0 comment(s) —

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This is the start of another great Plat House project by Canadian architect Ross Macintosh. Ross provided the design services for the modification of the Plat House design on Prince Edward Island. This project will be located on Ballantynes Cove, Nova Scotia on a fantastic site overlooking the ocean. Ross has done a great job again expanding on the design themes in the Plat House design and adapting it to the local climate.