Latest boulder addition renderings from fuentesdesign

A concept sketch for a two story addition and aesthetic and building performance upgrade for a house in north boulder. This project should also have some energy and envelope performance upgrades included.

fuentesdesign's first book publication

While we've made all the local press over the years, none of our work to date has been published in a book....until this year - It was our log cabin home - a Colorado spruce standing dead log frame home, wrapped in straw bale with a masonry heater and backup radiant heated concrete floors. The book is called Prefabulous and Sustainable: "Building and Customizing an Affordable, Energy Efficient-Efficient Home" You can read more about the book at the author's website. There are some great architectural projects by some well known architects in this book and its been a great addition to my own personal library and for any potential clients, I would definitely recommend it as a good introduction to green building. Check it out!

Stair rendering for Project X

This is the stair 3d model we developed for the Harvey residence currently under construction on 504 Geneva Ave. It uses a waterjet cut steel plate, with a natural waxed finish and FSC certified teak built up treads. The floors are concrete with in floor radiant heat in commercial metal decking. We have a lot of exposed steel and the 15 degree angle to maximize solar electric production off the PV system creates some interesting geometrical and spatial configurations we are trying to take advantage of in the design.

The concept is very simple, but with a tweak in the geometry, it really opens up the courtyard and defines some subspaces much better than if the project were on a cartesian grid. My tip of the hat to Aldo Van Eyck!

Studio Shed taking off

fuentesdesign has been helping our partner prefab company Studio-Shed with architecture since JHK's first shed that he built in his own backyard, and now we're shipping product out to different states and really getting a great response! Here are a few renderings for projects I have been working on that are semi custom - using studio shed components and processes but building larger buildings than are listed on the website. Small, infill projects are not only green by reducing sprawl, but also by allowing more people to do more things in less space. The future!