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Nic Darling

The Suburbanization of City Neighborhoods

March 16, 2012

The city is not the suburbs. The suburbs probably shouldn’t be the suburbs either, but let’s leave that alone for the moment. The city, particularly when viewed from the neighborhood level, has starkly different needs than those of it’s less densely populated surroundings. Among the most important of these needs is a mixture of use. [...]

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The Small Bedroom Philosophy at Work in the Avant Garage

January 10, 2012
Avant Garage Small Bedroom

Occasionally, we feel the urge to revisit some of our old ideas and see how they sound after having been knocked around by a few years of reality. Fortunately (or unfortunately), many of those old ideas are enshrined in the 100k Archive. This makes it pretty easy to drag them kicking and screaming into the light [...]

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K’House Informational Event and Adult Beverage Tour

November 3, 2011

We, in cooperation with Indy Hall and DIGSAU, will be hosting an informational event at the site of our upcoming K’House project, and we would love to see everyone there. In addition to material about the project and our own educational presence, there will be beer, food and friends. And, once we are out of [...]

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New K’House Renderings and Floor Plan Options

October 26, 2011

Hopefully everyone remembers our previous post about K’House, our co-housing collaboration with the great folks at Indy Hall. Well, we have been working with the floor plans to find the best layout for the limited space available. It has been a fun and challenging process but I think we have made quite a bit of [...]

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Avant Garage: Final Interior Construction Pics

October 6, 2011

We have wrapped up the first Avant Garage home and handed over the title to the proud new owner. Just before he managed to get his stuff in, I grabbed a few quick shots of the interior to share. Remember, I am about as much of a professional photographer as Mike Tyson is a professional [...]

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Metal Siding on the Avant Garage

September 27, 2011

The front facade of the Avant Garage project sees us continue our use of fiber cement panels, but we are trying something new on the side and back. This new material is a very basic corrugated metal siding. It is the same siding we intend to use on the First Steel project which, as it’s name suggests, [...]

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ReNew Bold Massing Concepts and Exterior Spiral Stairs

September 23, 2011

We haven’t talked much about the ReNew Bold project since our original post on the topic. This is not because work hasn’t been proceeding on the project. It is simply that we are aware of the long road ahead and want to save some of our discussion for a time closer to actual groundbreaking. That [...]

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