Recycled Houses

[Warm Worm]

What are _you_ doing for the environment? :)

[creative1986]

My part, 100%.

[Anthony Ippolito]

I try to incorporate as much recycled materials as I can into a project, sometimes the client wants other products but I do manage to get some in.

[creative1986]

What are the names of the recycled products you specify in a project?

[Pierre levesque, AIA]

His old vellum and title blocks from 1980... ;-)

[glomerol]

I recall seeing some kind of older computer-controlled drawing machine for sale online. Apparently, you do your drawings in CAD and then export them to this machine that holds and moves the real pens and/or pencils.

[creative1986]

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That was called a pen plotter. I used one way back in 1980 and it had small felt tip markers for pens. It was small, used 8.5x11 paper and resembled an etch-a-sketch with the case removed and it was very problematic, but cool to watch, at the time.

[Anthony Ippolito]

I will prepare a list for you. Do you actually believe that you are the only one who can design something with recycled materials. I have been in the construction industry for over 47 years and have actually constructed buildings what is your claim to fame? If you wish a list I shall provide one, but I feel that you know there are many types of materials that can be substituted with recycled material.

You don't rattle my chain, go play with some little student if you wish. I do Architectural drafting and design because that is what I do. I do not claim to have AIA after my name, some of you so called registered architects don't even know how to construct a dog house, that's why I get to do the work.

I don't want to hurt feelings as I know that you Pierre levesque are genuine. Don't be so quick to judge.

[Anthony Ippolito]

Do you actually know what a pen plotter is?

That was called a pen plotter. I used one way back in 1980 and it had small felt tip markers for pens. It was small, used 8.5x11 paper and resembled an etch-a-sketch with the case removed and it was very problematic, but cool to watch, at the time.

[Pierre Levesque, AIA]

You don't understand what a winkie is do you? ;-) as in "nudge nudge wink wink"... as in a joke? as in we've all done that? As in "old vellum and title blocks from 1980... ;-)" applies to all of us? that must have gone VOOM... right over your head.

Don't get so personal that you feel the need to post people's names. I know we've been pulling your chain for years and that you've been a "drafter" for even longer. One thing's for sure, you seem to have left your sense of humor under your drafting table and/or pen plotter.

The simple fact is that you have done hand drafting, blue printing, ACAD since 1.0, pen plotters, DOS, dot matrix, inkjets and now laserjet printers right? As we have all? So what are you being so defensive about?

No need to post a list of projects you've done, a website or a picture will speak a thousand words. Surely yu've used a brownie camera to take pictures of the projects haven't you? Surely, you've scanned some of those pictures and posted them to your website haven't you?

The second simple fact is that the only thing you've ever posted ANYWHERE online since we've known you (around 1997 for me) is the same old thing. Spam about your drafting services. No discussions or dialogues about design, no dialogues or discussions about construction detailing, no discussions or dialogues about buildings, no participation in heated discussions about off-topic "god knows what" (to your credit).

So just leave it alone, keep on doing what you do and think about the repercussions of what happens when you post someone's name in blogs or usenet messages etc Google your name and see what comes up, it's not pretty...

Anyways, continued good luck and by the way, I agree with you, many many architects don't know how to construct a dog house let alone design one ;-) ( do Architectural drafting and design because that is what I do. I do not

[Anthony Ippolito]

[Warm Worm]

Welcome back, Anthony. Being in the industry for 47 years is quite a respectable length of time.

[creative1986]

Anthony Ippolito murder 1/23/07 Irmo, SC January 24, 2007 =97 mylifeofcrime

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[creative1986]

Semi retired means "can't find any work", done scammed everybody in the area, one inch from being castrated and dragged............

[glomerol]

How can he be posting here and be dead at the same time?

[Anthony Ippolito]

no I think it means don't care, don't want to do it any more but not sure and may want to do it again.

Ha! What a way to go, especially now. I am working some project. I do give

300% when I am on a project.

[Warm Worm]

Anthony, we all know that you can only give a maximum of 100%... and even then, we probably need to reserve some of that for other resources... such as waste disposal. ;D

"Say, where did Mr. 300% go?" ;)

[glomerol]

There's someone on here, apparently with good drafting skills and house-building knowledge, who nevertheless seems to specialize in these sizes/styles: "For More of Our 9,000-sq.-ft. house plans, Click Here. For One of Our 4,000-sq.-ft. house plans, Click Here."

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"All else being equal, a house with more surface area will consume more energy for heating and cooling. Thus, a larger house -- or one that has more complex geometry -- will consume more energy.

A house's smaller square footage does not always mean a comparable reduction in surface area. If one reduces the total size of a house but breaks it into smaller, separate wings and more complex geometry, for example, as is sometimes done in custom houses, one may not gain much in the way of energy savings compared to the large box. Along with the greater surface area increasing heat loss and unwanted heat gain, larger houses also generally require longer runs for ducting and hot water pipes. Losses in conveyance of warm air, chilled air, and hot water can be significant.

Quantity vs. Quality

With single-family houses, the notion that bigger is better has been a leading driver of the real estate industry. Large houses are a status symbol. Even retirement homes built for 'empty-nesters' (couples whose children have left home) are usually a step up in terms of size. Virtually all segments of the American home-buying market are [at least at the time of that writing] buying the largest houses they can afford.

Designer-builder John Abrams of the South Mountain Company in West Tisbury, Mass., describes three factors that are driving the popularity of large houses: 'First, with less of a sense of community and public life in our culture, the home becomes a fortress which needs to contain everything we need, including multiple forms of entertainment, rather than basic shelter; second, the building industry has been selling 'big is better' and the message has been heard; and third, diminishing craft and design generosity has resulted in sterile homes -- people mistakenly think that what's missing is grandeur: more space.' "

"Mortgage bankers can also in effect specify minimum house size for new houses by mandating ratios of house value to land value. Secondary mortgage markets often have a rule of thumb that the lot should not be worth more than 30% of the total value of the real estate. Thus, on an expensive lot, homeowners are required to build expensive, and therefore often large, houses. Appraisals (which assess the value of the a house for financial or taxation purposes) for small houses also run into difficulty when all the houses in a particular area are very large and the appraiser cannot find small comparable houses. This issue does not apply at the high end of the real estate market, where land values commonly exceed house values."

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[yoyodog]

Atta boy Anthony! We like you much more when you participate in discussions... Even though this discussion falls in the O.T. category ;-)