DHA's largest building (in cubic feet) to date is nearing completion in Missoula Montana. Designed for Home Resource, a building materials recycling center, the "Fencade" as they call it was designed to use nearly 85% recycled building materials from the non-profit's own stockpile of materials. Existing 6x6 posts, 2x12s and huge wood trusses were assembled together by a crack team of volunteers and in-house construction experts.
Welcome to Temptation By Space, a periodic forum for news and research from, by and about Dan Hisel Architect. The title of the blog comes from an article by Roger Caillois about insect camouflage and its implications for human spatial perception, but more on camouflage elsewhere, for now, simply welcome. I hope you find something of interest.