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“Be Careful What You Wish For”
Why? You might get it. Might. Maybe. Maybe not. Philosophy Of Architectural Design… Is there a philosophy of architectural design? There is a certainty of intention of plans and specifications being created and used, which will be used for construction. There is nothing left to chance, when plans are created with the intention that they…
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Starts With A Dream
Day Dreaming What shape is your imagination in? You’re in the third grade and you stare out the window at the empty playground, paved with blacktop. You can see the slide and the swings, motionless, and as if math weren’t boring enough, the playground just looks dead. As you descend into a reality, the one…
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Cut Down HVAC Expenses
Heat Loss/Gain Help The most heat loss in winter and the most heat gain in summer is through the windows of your home. The designation for insulation property “strength” is called the R-Value. R STANDS FOR “RESISTANCE OF HEAT”. The walls, if 2×4 studs, typically have R-ll fiberglass insulation in them. There is some R-value…
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Straight Lines
“The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.” Are we conforming to the math, or is the math conforming to us? Seeking truth and seeking truth which applies to your own life, or which can apply to life, are not the same things. Is the shortest distance between two points a straight line? …
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Confidence
What Is Confidence? Confidence is the belief that you can do something well. How well? As good as it needs to be at the time it is done. Confidence is a belief. Confidence is having faith. High confidence is certainty, the certainty that you can do something specific. Do what? Knowing that you can do…
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How To Manifest
Planifestation Is The Key “Who makes that window on your drawing?” so said my father early on in my design career. He looked at the front elevation drawing I had done of the store building, a single story Colonial style, and asked the above question. The demeanor of an engineer, architect, naval officer, boss, and…