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While the 'slits' dominate impressions of the house from the exterior, the interior has been kept simple, buy cardura without prescription. Cardura non prescription, Wooden walls have bee used throughout, allowing for the space to be reorganized over time - as either uses or occupant(s) change over time, order discount cardura. Find cheap cardura online, This simplicity also brings more attention to the interior effects of the 'slits', crisscrossing the internal spaces with lines of light, buy cardura from us. Cardura generic, slit008

This spacing of he concrete panels also turns the home into one giant timepiece, to some extent - tracking light and shadows throughout the day, cardura without rx. Cardura buy,

At the dawn, watery light comes into the house through the slits, cheapest generic cardura online. Buy cardura without prescription, That makes the entire room bright faintly. Fda approved cardura, At 9:30AM,sequence of the feeble light that reflects to header of slits appears, find cardura online. Buy cardura low price, At 10:30AM, the sunlight pierces through angled slits at first. At 11:00AM,the sunlight pierces through all slits. The sunlight through the slit and the reflected light on the header of the slit project the stripe of V type to the long corridor. If you saw the repetition of this edgy light, you might feel as if time of 11:00AM has stopped, buy cardura without prescription. In as much as ten minutes, the reflected light on the header disappears. The shape of the light that the slit makes changes from V type into one stripe. The moments that the sun pierces through the angled slits and through the straight slits are different.

The angled slits get a little earlier. Buy cardura without prescription, The momentary time lag let us feel a running of the sun and makes us forefeel the upcoming time of the dusk. And it shortens little by little. And watery light fills the house again with soft brightness.

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::photographs by Kouichi Torimura::

::images, info + quoted text courtesy of EASTERN design office, Inc::.

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At that point there wasn't simply one architecture student that was handling the details - it wasn't quite design by committee, but it was 3 or 4 people that were of an equal level talking about design decisions. So it was hard, and it was a learning process - especially working with the engineers that don't have prior work experience, just like the architecture student, order diltiazem cream without prescription. Having to navigate that learning curve both within our own discipline and through dealing with other fields was a major obstacle to overcome.

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AMNP: Could you talk a little about the decision to segment the house and create that courtyard?

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AMNP: So then you jumped right into construction at the beginning of the summer?

KB: Finishing up the school year we were a little behind in construction because, like any drawing set, things don't get done until there are deadlines. The deadline of the end of school, diltiazem cream, and knowing we were losing a lot of our work force in the class forced us to kick it in gear with the construction drawings - some construction couldn't be started until those drawings were finished, obviously - so there was one big push the last 3 weeks of May, which were the 3 weeks after graduation, to finish the construction drawings and deliver them to the Department of Energy by June 3rd.

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AMNP: How long did it take to finish construction at Santa Clara - and how much of the construction was completed before the house was shipped to DC?

KB: We only had 6 days to put the house together on the National Mall, buy diltiazem cream without prescription. Because of that limitation we had to get as far in construction as possible in Santa Clara, except for those things that were site-critical. I say that because we faced some unique challenges with some of the code requirements. We needed the house to be ADA accessible, so we needed ADA ramps - but we didn't have a true survey of our site, to know what the slope was going to be across the site, diltiazem cream cheap price. We knew where the ramps were going to be, but because of the slopes of the ramps we didn't know what the finished height of the deck was going to be ... Buy diltiazem cream without prescription, [we had to] make sure we were under a 30" threshold [so that the deck itself wouldn't need guardrails] and could still fit our ramps within the envelope dictated by the Department of Energy. We were pretty nervous. We had all of the ramps built in Santa Clara - we just didn't know if it was all going to work out until we got to DC. Also the exterior lighting and signage were handled when we got to Washington - but everything else was done in Santa Clara.

AMNP: Could you describe some of the sustainable / green / recycled materials used in the house?

KB: A lot of teams are using reclaimed materials and recycled materials - but I think one of the things that made our house successful was that there are elements of it that feel very familiar to a home owner, Discount diltiazem cream overnight delivery, but at the same time we're using materials in either a new way or with a balance of a kind of modern aesthetic but with familiar materials. We tried to have a simple palette in the house, which keeps the space feeling open, buy diltiazem cream without prescription. We have elm on the floors, reclaimed from trees with Dutch Elm disease which were headed for the landfill - this company in Canada actually reengineered it into hardwood floor. We absolutely love that tone and texture. We also had bamboo cabinetry that's all integrated together throughout all the spaces in the house - and stone countertops, which again, countertops are something that everyone has seen, but we were able to integrate it into the cabinetry and into the backsplash in such a way that people were able to say "that's a creative way of doing that", compare diltiazem cream prices, while at the same time it isn't foreign to them, it isn't sci-fi to them.

In those home furnishing it was a combination of things available on the market and other student designs. Buy diltiazem cream without prescription, We tapped in to another network of designers at the California College of the Arts - we had a textile student upholster the couch with recycled wool he had found; we had fashion design students hang [their original work] in the closets in our bedroom; we had a glass-blowing student do custom fixtures, one on the island and one in the bathroom; a student designed and built the coffee table in the living room; and we had a Master's of Fine Arts student who does paintings on non-recyclable plastic - little plastic paintings for a tooth brush or something - then she paints these beautiful little painting on them, so we have those framed in the hallway; we have custom ceramics in the house for all the dish-ware, it's from a clay that's harvested from SF Bay - they take old wine bottles and crush them, then use that really fine glass as the enamel; we then used that same glass source, and an artist made new glasses from these crushed wine bottles. We tried to approach students in other disciplines, and ask them what sustainability means to them - and what pieces they have that are sustainable and can fit into the larger narrative of this house as an education tool. In doing so the house felt more comfortable, Buy diltiazem cream pills, as if someone actually lived there - and that there was a variety of textures and pieces that were just eclectic enough to make the home feel not feel like a showroom. Finding that balance was hard, but I think we were able to do it.

AMNP: So what happens to the house after the Decathlon?

KB: We recently won a grant - the final details are still be worked out - to display the house in front of San Jose city hall, as part of a green building exhibit that the city of San Jose wants to put up. [We're excited] to show our finished house in California to our friends and family in the area, buy diltiazem cream without prescription. We're still working through those details - and then for the final location of the house - there's a chance that we could be displaying the house in Santiago, Chile, at the US embassy, order diltiazem cream overnight delivery. The US ambassador has expressed an interest in our house, and at displaying it at the embassy. All the details haven't been worked out, but that's what's being discussed.

AMNP: Do you think the house will ever be lived in?

KB: Our intention was to use the house as an education tool, and to put it in environments where we can get the most publicity for what green building can be - showing that you can design a house that isn't only comfortable and livable, Buy generic diltiazem cream online, but is also high performing. Buy diltiazem cream without prescription, So for us, that was more important than selling the house to the highest bidder, and letting someone put it on their lake-front property somewhere. We were very conscious of the house feeling like a 'home' - being livable - but also working and acting as a public exhibit.

AMNP: As a recent graduate, had you been working on your thesis for the past year while also working on the Decathlon. That sounds insane.

KB: That was a tricky thing for me to overcome personally. Last December I had done the research portion of my thesis - and was interested in my thesis, obviously - but I didn't want to drop the ball with this Decathlon experience, which had been increasingly taking up my time, buy diltiazem cream online cheap. I was worried about balancing the two, but was basically convinced to do both, buy diltiazem cream without prescription. So for a little while last semester I had to step away from working on the details [of the Decathlon] and finish my thesis, and then was back into the Decathlon full-bore in May.

AMNP: How did your role in the project change after graduation - and how were you able to stay on the team?

KB: It was tricky, because a lot of the leaders on the project were graduating in May - and the final construction document drawings were due to the Department of Energy in June. What ended up happening was that a small stipend went to the managers that graduated in May, and they helped run the studio to finish up drawings and then moved into full construction over the summer. Cheap diltiazem cream in usa, So we're getting a small stipend to work on this project right now. Buy diltiazem cream without prescription, The DOE gives each of the schools $100,000 in grants that are supposed to go towards student salaries over the two years.

AMNP: Could you talk about how the Decathlon experience differed from that of a typical architecture undergrad - and how it changed your view / understanding of architecture?

KB: I was fortunate enough to have a couple of summer internships under my belt before getting into this project, which I think prepared me a little bit - but nothing is really like the experience of doing it all yourself. It was at times a challenge, because a lot of the stuff we're learning on the fly. In the real world, in our limited experiences working in offices, we weren't in the positions we were in in the Decathlon - in the sense that in the Decathlon we're not only the architects and engineers, order diltiazem cream online, we're also the owners, the project managers, and the construction managers. We had to wear many hats, and be able to juggle multiple perspectives on the project at the same time. I think especially the time while we were finishing the construction drawings - and in addition to the construction drawings we had to write a full cost estimate for every part of the house and a full construction specification for everything in the house - it was at that time that we realized that even as undergraduate students and as students with limited experience in the "real world", that we could do it, buy diltiazem cream without prescription. There's this realization that [you need to] jump in, Buy no rx diltiazem cream, head first, and learn to swim - and I think we showed that you can do it, so it's been inspiring in that regard.

AMNP: What has been the most exciting part of this experience for you so far?

KB: I'm actually really excited for tonite [Wednesday, Oct. 14th], because tonite is the first time that we actually get to tour all of the other houses. So public tours are closed down, cheap diltiazem cream no rx, there's no contest going on tonite, and it's kind of just an 'open house' party with the other 19 teams. Buy diltiazem cream without prescription, The thing I've been most excited about, and has been the most pleasing, is touring the other houses - I've only been to 3 of the other houses so far -and making friends with the other competitors. We all know just how hard this process was over the past 2 years, and what we had to overcome to get here - so there isn't really a rivalry like you get in most competitions. At this point the house is what it is, there isn't much we can do to affect the judging - so people are just kind of hanging out with members of other teams. You go into the other houses and you know these other students have worked so hard, and that their response is completely valid and appropriate response to an 800sf solar powered-house. It's exciting to see what these other teams have come up with as solutions.

AMNP: Not to put you on the spot, since you haven't been to all the other homes - but which of the other projects has impressed you the most so far?

KB: Well, I'll speak to the German house - because that's the one I've spent the most time in other than our house, buy diltiazem cream without prescription. We ended up being in the same hotel as team Germany, so we got to share a lot of anecdotes with them - they've hung out in our house, and we've hung out in theirs. I was impressed with their ability to have a whole second story - [they've] got a pretty complex spatial arrangement in a small house, in under 800sf, and in talking to them and walking around that space it was clear that theirs was also an appropriate response to the challenge. It's one of those open-ended tests where there is no one 'right' answer. The same with Virginia Tech's house - I was able to tour theirs, and it was a very efficient floor plan and nice detail in a house so small ... and a completely different layout in a house around a core, which was interesting.

AMNP: What are your plans now that the Decathlon is finally finished?

KB: For the immediate future I am going back to San Francisco with a hope of finding a job in Europe. I have a couple of potential offers but I am still trying to figure out all the details.

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.:Team California's Flickr photostream->

.:Team California at DOE Solar Decathlon site->

.:Team California's 'Refract House' website->

AMNP would like to thank Kyle for taking the time to do the interview - and the California College of the Arts for reaching out to us and making the interview possible.

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