The Dutch interior designer Remy Meijers viewed it as a challenge to transform a double bungalow, designed by the famous architect Gerrit Rietveld and situated in the village of Baambrugge, into a suitable family home. That wasn’t easy, due to the layout of the two adjoining bungalows: dating from 1958 and offering just 250 square meters of living space, they were not built to house a modern-day family of five.

Even the extension in the seventies, added by the renowned architect Benno Premsela, had not solved that problem. Meijers elected to leave the architectonic value of the property untouched, as a result of which the front of the house still exudes a 1950’s feel. Beh

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Rand Soellner Architect programs his Clients projects by documenting what you want, along with other information about your project.

Rand was trained in Architectural Programming by a firm in North Central Indiana that partnered with CRS, the Texas architectural company that is said to have invented Architectural Programming, initially for medical and educational facilities.  Soellners professors at the University of Florida College of Architecture and their Graduate School of Architecture were also heavily focused on both design and programming.  Rands designs now serve Clients all over the USA and the World.  He has a National practice.

The idea of architectural programming is to first research, think about and prepare information about the functional aspects of a particular type of purpose in a particular type of space that the architect will be designing.  This is no different preparing programming for your house than any other type of facility.  In fact, a house can be more complex than many other types of projects, according to the American Institute of Architects.

For instance, for a residential kitchen, you would want to have an understanding of how many people will want to use that space simultaneously and doing what.  If you wanted to have more than one person preparing food and more than one person cleaning up after a meal, you might want to seriously consider having more than one sink, as much of food preparation and cleanup require the use of potable water in a sink.  And how about the space required between opposing counter edges?  What is in your kitchen?  3 feet?  That will never work for more than one person, otherwise you are going to be colliding into other people.    And that is just the beginning.  Once you open appliance doors and cabinet drawers, there is going to be even less space in which to move.  Soellner has found that anything less than about 4-6 will become a problem in a residential kitchen.  In fact, he has created some kitchens with even more space between the counters, particularly when large families intend to have frequent occasions with many friends and relatives participating.

This is why, when you see one of Rand Soellners kitchen plans, you will also notice that all of the appliance doors are shown through their operational swing, as well as other features in the deployed position.  It is quite a revelation to most Clients to see how little space is left for human circulation, once all of these doors and drawers are opened, which they will be, as people in the Kitchen use them.

The Kitchen is a magnet for social human activity and Soellner calls it The Heart of the Home.  Whether you want people in there or not, that is where they will be.  Thats where the food is and thats where you are, when you are preparing the food, so they are going to join you there.

But this article is intended to not just focus on Kitchens.  There are many more spaces to most houses and properly programming them is important to establishing the parameters that will result in a design that is functional and satisfying for each Client.

Just listing the spaces to be a Clients residential project is an important step in Soellners programming.  Please click on this link to see more about architectural programming : > architectural programming

And please click here if you would like to contact Rand Soellner Architect to start programming and designing your house > Contact Us

Please let us know if you have any questions about residential programming, especially if you are looking for an architect to help you: 1 828 269 9046 .

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A Pennsylvania couple with a love for hunting and wide open spaces, Dale and Meg have followed their passion for the outdoors both near and far, and now it has brought them to the solitude of the New Mexico countryside. With thoughts of building an impressive home for retirement, Meg and Dale researched log home building companies that could design them a robust handcrafted house to match their active lifestyle.

What drew the couple to PrecisionCraft was its Total Home Solution that allowed them to take leading roles in their project while still having skilled and experienced professionals guide them throughout the process.

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Which outdoor lighting is right for you, LED or low-voltage halogen? In short, either can work and make your home look beautiful with the right outdoor lighting design. At Outdoor Lighting Perspectives, we work with our clients and their budgets needs and goals to recommend the best fixtures for your property. Both have their pros and cons, but both have the ability to highlight all the best parts of your property.

What the image above shows is that when done right, and with the right fixtures, LED and halogen lights can create the same desired effect. You’ll notice the color of both bulbs is very similar, and that’s because of the quality. High quality low voltage and LED lighting will both have a color rendering index, or CRI of over 80, which is what’s needed for outdoor lighting applications. Make

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The project is the design of the new Sweet Alchemy pastry shop in Athens Greece.

The store is located in the up market suburb of Kifisia in the northern region of Athens. The client is Stelios Parliaros who is considered to be the best Patisserie in Greece, author of many culinary books and host of a very popular patisserie show in Greek TV.

Alchemy a notion associated with darkness mystery and mysticism practiced in laboratories full of peculiar enigmatic devices, rare distils crystals and potions. These images were the starting point for the development of a central idea, the recreation of this atmosphere in a contemporary outtake.

The space is characterized by the high degree of transparency which was manipulated in order to diffuse the light and filter the optic penetration.

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