10 Things we love about the KTR Franchise design

DugOut Design Studio, still had one last ultimate test to judge the new KTR Scottsdale design. Read on for feedback as a family experiencing KTR.

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6 Ideas for Creating a Sustainable and Inspirational Home Office

According to a recent Fast Company article many CEOs are choosing home office spaces over remote locations. It’s also worth mentioning, many of the greats, such as, Apple, Microsoft, Google and Amazon all started from their garage. So if you’re in the midst of deciding where to locate your office, or just trying to reinvent your space, read on for …

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Sustainability, stepping in the right direction

Sustainability strategies • Sourcing Materials• Efficient Design• Waste Reduction Life on this planet has efficiently survived for billions of years, evolving strategies and structures for survival by consuming the least amount of resources for the greatest returns on investment.  In business and our personal lives, we can start integrating sustainable strategies by balancing the big three: people, profit & planet. …

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Rendering of Lockers

3D vertical locker section

Here is one of my older models of a stack of lockers. All of the edges are beveled and there is fine detail around the locks as well as door vents. This is ready to drop into a rendering software to create clean results. Here is a link to download the 3D model: https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/b633c4fcf454f3898c63cb68f11df34/Bay-of-Lockers

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Healthier skateparks: inspired by smart schools

Sustainable Building Week, Portland Oregon Hosted by Portland Green Schools Where: DOWA-IBI Architecture Firm – October 2018 Portland has joined 18 other major cities around the world to pledge that all new buildings in their cities will be “net-zero carbon” by 2030. Net-zero buildings use energy ultra-efficiently and meet any remaining energy needs from renewable sources. As a part of …

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Drone scanning for site analysis

  Design Challenge: The Nitro Circus team was looking to find a suitable venue downtown Las Vegas for a new permanent show concept. They asked me if I could create an accurate 3D model based off a handful of sketchy CAD PDFs that lacked any dimensions or consistency.  After trial and error, we then decided to explore the options of …

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