Green Architecture Design, The RainShine House

This house is rated the highest green architecture in the US from the United States Green Building Council, the LEED Platinum for energy-efficient and environmentally sensitive design and construction. The RainShine house is designed by Robert M. Cain, Architect, Atlanta, Georgia, USA , AIA, LEED AP in modern architecture style with steel, wood and glass construction.

Interior of RainHouse

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Sustainable Building Design

In this world where the term of global warming is spreading, the sustainable architecture design is definitely required. It becomes the sacred words in the world of architecture. Sustainable building design refers to architectural design with zero emission, energy-saving building, refined building, any green architecture design that environmentally friendly and contributes to the protection of the organisms diversity and nature recovery.

In past century, architectural design and build required environmental sacrifice. In this century, the architectural design using natural energy, blend with nature and can lessen the environment burden can be sustainable to time is required.

Green architecture, Urban regeneration, bio climatic design, environmental architecture, are new important concepts in this century and applied by architects around the world, the sustainable building design concept starts being used from the vernacular houses to large scale urban development. And this emerging concept is to develop a form of understanding construction in close relation to nature both interior and exterior and the usage of alternative energy sources as well as to improve the quality of life, the concept of sustainable building design finally challenges the professionals to research the latest and imanigative innovation for architecture and design.

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How to Renovate Home in Low Budget

Home renovation is simple way to create a new athmosphere to our home. We dont need to worry about the cost we are going to spend for home renovation, we can do it in limited budget if we know the tricks.

The first thing to do is to decide the concept of new renovated home. We must do this very detail and complete. This to avoid the mistakes in the process of renovation, which will make the cost higher. The complete concept also to make the work run faster. We can decide which part of the house that need to be renovated.

The perfect time to do renovation, wheater and season will affect to the work construction. It can slow down the renovation process if the timing is not perfect and can double the cost.

Do survey the building materials to get good bargain. As one of alternative to low the cost, we can choose the used building materials but we have to make sure they are in good condition. There are few materials we must get in new and in good quality such as for plumbing, electricity, roof, wall. Also material for fondation and structure.

Choose good, reliable and registered contractor, we can get recommendation from friends or relatives about good contractors.

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Choosing the Right Home Design

Choosing the Right Home Design

By Alan Dunne

This is a great article that we found about choosing home design.

One of the issues when you begin the search for your perfect home is that you can become a little it overwhelms by the many choices you have at your disposal. Some people of course truly relish collecting some books and choosing from the many home designs that are available. What you need to do is to narrow down your search by just sitting back and and considering what type of home you would like to live in.

A good place to start before you overwhelmed with choice is to consult with your architect. And architects job is to not only design a home he also needs to identify his clients needs and try and create what they are looking for.

What a good architects will do is they will develop a program to try and get from you what you expect from your new home and help you to recognize from an his point of view what needs to be done but also to recognize what your personal needs are for your home. The kind of areas that he will look at our what your needs are for you home not just for today but in the future, so do you have children?, are you planning on having children?, would you need to accommodate aging parents?

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Modern Home Design

The above image is the architecture of modern home design. We designed this modern home around 3 years ago. 2 floors home with simple lines texture and natural stones, painted in light and soft colors. Many wide windows and doors in this home design. It is luxury home anyway. This modern home design specially created for a famous business institution. They wanted to provide homes for their CEOs.

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Estimating Building Construction Costs - Elements and Tools

I found good article which I think it useful to post here. By Dean Forster.

The practice of estimating building construction costs is as important a step as the construction itself. In building a home, a facility or any other structure, it is important to approximate the amount that will be used on the project or come up with an estimate as close as possible to the actual costs. Most construction project failures, be it domestic or commercial, are caused by lack of balance in the anticipated cost of the project and the actual expenses.

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Sketch of Large House Plan

Now we put the architectural sketch of large house design with 210m2 building area. This modern large house plan has 5 bedrooms include 1 maid’s bedroom and 4 bathrooms. The house is completed with living room, family room, dining room and service area such as kitchen and laundry room, plus 2 cars garage. 210m2 is quite big for a residential in here, with that large area; owner can get rooms for everyone ?We designed this large house in modern design style as seen on the front view. We played with simple form, texture and colour elements for the architecture design. This modern house plan is only in one floor. There’s enough space for garden and carport as well and we designed this house for further development in case the owner wanted to add more spaces to his house.

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Sketch of Small House Plans

front view

plan view

It is a small house plan and designed in 90m2 building area. It has 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. They are 1 master bedroom completed with bathroom. And other 3 bedrooms which all are small size bedrooms: 9m2 each. Pretty much small for bedroom design, but it is standard size in here ? This small house plan has a living room, guest room, kitchen and dining room. The architecture of this small house plans is designed in mediterranean style. It comes with column, porch and some ornamental profiles on certain part of the house. It still has space for garden and carport.

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Minimalist House Design 3, Renovated House

Design 1

This is a renovated house design. The existing house design was small house with one floor and in simple tropic home design. The new design comes in minimalist home design and add with new floor due to the needs of more spaces. For new facade look , we designed with minimalist ornaments and forms such as lines pattern, natural stone and soft colors. With simple texture lines made of cement, natural stones on certain part and simple-minimalist door and window design this old house has new and fresh look.

Design 2

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Another Home Sketch

This is another home sketch of a large home plan design, it's 2 Storeys house with 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. It is an home sketch; we designed this around 5 years ago ?. You can see the design looks oldfashion. We found this from our old files, so we thought why not put this large house sketch on web just to see our old taste in design.

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Renovated House, the alternative design

This is the alternative design for development of old existing house. For this renovated house design we only added new floor, so the owner would have enough rooms to accommodate all family member’s activities. We moved the entrance from first floor to second floor and designed new façade for the renovated house design. It surely created new look in low budget. The house came out in simple and modern architecture looks without too many ornamental designs. We used straight lines and simple form and some natural stones for accent. We completed this renovated house design in 2004. It was very old design :)

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Kampung House

It was called Kampong House, due to the location where this kampong house was going to built. It was located in semi-remote area; where there were fruit plants and rice fields. The owner wanted the home looks simple, blended with the environment, with minimal ornament. Overall this kampong house should look humble but still have to stand out among other houses. Kampong house design came out using exposed and natural finishing material. The owner liked it though, it was typical kampong house design but still aesthetically designed

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Big Ethnic House Design

This is a sketch of big ethnic house design. It has a little bit touch of ethnic design as seen at
the roof design and from the facade as well. We named this house plan big ethnic house, in order to differ it with another big house design we were working on. This ethnic house sketch is designed in modern ethnic style, with 2 storeys floors and completed with tower. The owner wanted to sit and enjoy the surroundings view from the tower. It was the reason why the tower was created :))

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Small House Design 2

This image is a sketch of small house design from the back view. Not much different from the front view design. It is Still in the same architectural theme, that is modern style design. This small house plan design uses the simple form and line pattern.

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Small House Design

This image is a front view sketch of small house design. It is an old design that we did few years
ago :). The architecture comes in modern style, not much ornamented on the front view of this small house plan design, mostly uses natural stones and simple line pattern. One thing that makes this small house stand out among other home design is the tower on left side of the house.

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Traditional House 1

Overall this house is a mixed between traditional and modern design. A large house, because the owner wants to accommodate the whole family. It is designed a long time ago, it looks so outdated design. ;)

Want to know more about traditional house in Indonesia?

History and philosophy of Indonesia traditional house.

Nias Museum

I will provide another link soon.

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A Home Design, The Result of Trial and Error

This is just another old design :)
The house looks as minimalist house design, well it is suppose to look minimalist anyway :)
It is done in a short time and by beginner as well.

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The Villa

This is country house; Specially designed for a villa. With 2 bedroom and 1 bathroom. I like this design.

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Small House Design - Type 21

The above image was small house design. It came out in 21 m2 for the building area. The house was completed with single bedroom, bathroom, living room and dining room, this small house design really provided basic space for a house. We created this small house designs for low-income housing project around 5 years ago and we designed several types of small house; the smallest size is the type 21 design. Although it was small house but we designed it with taste so this small house design would have different in architectural looks and stand out among other small houses. It would added the property value.

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Minimalist House Design 2

A house which provides rooms for rent especially for student or employee. This minimalist house design comes in 2 storeys building and for interior, there are several bedrooms and bathrooms for rent. And a living room in each floor for guests reception and laundry room. The architecture of this minimalist house design is in sharp and simple forms, with lines pattern and stone for accent. Well, actually this is very old design, we completed this minimalist house design around 6 years ago.

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