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Resident Designer

China’s suburbs might look like your typical American tract project, but the differences are vast

Chip Pierson, AIA and principal at Dahlin Group Architecture Planning, designs and plans communities and villas that mirror modern Southern California suburban developments. Architectural styles that look familiar to North Americans, right down to the Spanish tiled roofs and amenities such as golf course communities, are in huge demand in China.

 

Rain, rain, go away

Eco-roofs and rain gardens can help mitigate runoff

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Fine aged

Retrofitting homes for a growing and aging demographic

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An ARP revealed that 83 percent of those polled do not want to have to move out of their homes due to illness, disability or just plain aging. No doubt retrofitting the home to address access, mobility and other pertinent issues is bound to become an increasingly popular request.

 

Customized revolution

Home exteriors in master-planned communities

Solaris Garbett HomesA new wave of first-time homebuyers is changing the exterior landscape of master-planned communities to appeal to the iGeneration. The emerging trend is typified by sleeker, more modern architecture; smaller, more efficient floor plans; and an exterior emphasis on simplicity. As a result, the future of curb appeal in today’s master-planned communities is moving away from traditionally ornate cornices and large front porches of prior generations, toward a more environmentally sustainable and sleeker modern aesthetic.

 

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