Category: Design

18 Jul 2020
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HAUS is Hiring!

18 July 2020:  We are currently looking for a creative Graduate Architect to grow with our team.  If you know someone who loves to contribute their talents to interesting architecture + interior design projects, please send them our way!

We believe this person will have up to 3 years of professional experience and have earned an architectural degree.  Also, they will have experience and talent in design, drawing, and enjoy the design collaboration process.  And last but not least, this person may also enjoy the construction process and helping to see that their ideas are successfully executed in the construction phase.

Please email inquiries with resume and portfolio links to “create@haus-arch.com”.

Update (17 Aug 2020) – Thanks for all of the shares!  We have filled our immediate need.  Interested candidates, please continue to send resumes and portfolios our way for future consideration!

31 May 2020
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Crazier X2 – Racial Awareness

2020 is challenging us on various fronts beyond crazy architectural details and a worldwide virus without a cure.  Now racial awareness issues have again come to the forefront and have challenged us to be better as a nation and as a people.

Dream Realm, a Beginning - Racial Awareness - Unification Memorial: Catalyst for Social Change - A Learning resources center specifically attempting to raise awareness and shape views of past and existing racial diversity in the United States - Christopher A Short - Architect - HAUS | Architecture For Modern Lifestyles - Indianapolis
Dream Realm, a Beginning (Ball State University – College of Architecture & Planning – Student Project – November 1991)

Architectural details are not a new thing, just tools to help solve functional problems, ideally with aesthetic benefit.

Viruses are not a new thing either.  But most of us have not experienced this level of interruption to our daily routines from the threat of sickness.

And now the topic of racial diversity is before us front-and-center.  How our differences affect all levels of the life experience has become a most urgent focus society-wide.

Racial Awareness - Unification Memorial: Catalyst for Social Change
Unification Memorial: Catalyst for Social Change (Ball State University – College of Architecture & Planning – student thesis booklet, May 1992)

Is it possible to put all of these things together to make a difference and help spur positive change?

As we ponder how we can help, many of our “solutions” center on the things we know.  For us, that is urban planning and architecture.

Is there any learning from the past that can help guide us?  Perhaps.  One particular effort comes to-mind.  We dusted-off this thesis project from 1992 to see what motivated us to tackle similar issues almost 30 years ago.

Unification Memorial:  Catalyst for Social Change – A learning resources center specifically attempting to raise awareness and shape views of past and existing racial diversity in the United States.

Is it naive to think that the process and result of creating a significant socially-conscious multi-purpose civic resource (a building) can serve as a “catalyst for social change”?

27 Mar 2020
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Crazier Times – A New Normal

These are crazier times.  At this point, we have now been confined to our homes for a couple of weeks.  Most certainly, “Social distancing” is a term we are now very familiar with (and likely tired of hearing).

Also, we have learned a lot about what is “essential” and “not essential”.  As we may or may not be developing some degree of cabin fever, we can probably agree that the environments that we have created for ourselves help contribute to our degree of well-being.

Is your environment functioning ideally – or are there things you would change?  What is most important during a time of crisis?  Is your home supporting the daily, intensified needs of your family and loved-ones?

Thanks to our clients and team members for their flexibility.  We’re thankful we are able to continue forward as an essential activity utilizing safe means and methods in our daily work.

Everyone, please stay safe out there!

And finally, thanks, Lance and Laura for brightening our Friday with the card and update from Michigan! 🙂

01 Sep 2017
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Mid Mod Entry

Mid Mod Entry Wall frames entry and private moss garden in one move.  This Midcentury beauty has been completely enhanced inside and out.  Have a look at the project story here, and please visit later this year for planned fall 2017 photography!

29 Apr 2017
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The House of a Lifetime

This Dwell Magazine article The House of a Lifetime examines how Philip Isaacson from Lewistown, Maine commissioned an architect to design their home in 1959.  “You have to educate yourself when you select an architect,” Isaacson says.  “You have to find one that has the right approach, an attitude that you can feel throughout his or her work.  You have to appreciate that attitude and admire it enough to want them to carry it into the house.”

09 Dec 2016
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Slow Architecture

Slow Architecture – We are intrigued by this article about “Slow Philosophy – doing things at the right speed/pace” and how it may apply to architecture.  We are saving it here for future reference.  It’s true that American society always seems in a big rush, and we sometimes feel pressured to go faster and faster.  Is faster better, or is it better to savor the journey, not just the finish line?

Check it out here via DWELL

Slow Architecture - Therme Vals / Designed by architect Peter Zumthor
Slow Architecture – Therme Vals / Designed by architect Peter Zumthor

The Time, Cost, Quality trio is always a valuable thing to discuss with our clients.  Do they want it fast and cheap?  If yes, then the quality is going to be low.  Do they want high quality and a reasonable price?  Then time may be the sacrifice.  As with all design + construction projects, one needs to find the right balance of client priorities translated into the dream and then executed accordingly in built form.

15 Oct 2016
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Architectural Stair

Architectural Stair progress at Copperwood.  #ash #thermallymodified #stairlights #modern #architecture

To the left we were able to utilize the same thermally-modified Ash that was used for exterior cladding of bedroom and garage.  Then for the treads and risers, we used 2x structural pine to compliment the Ash and blend with the pine beams in the adjacent living space.  Handrail and guardrail above is black painted steel, and the translucent wall to the right is acrylic screwed to painted Poplar-wrapped studs (provides safety and diffused light).  Stair lights are evenly-spaced LED discs, connected to whole house lighting and smart-home system controlled via client’s smart devices.

15 Dec 2015
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Copperwood Ground Breaking

Copperwood Ground Breaking – construction is underway in Zionsville on this Dwell-inspired site-specific home.  Unique features include Airstream porte-cochere + Airstream acting as Home Office and Guest Suite and table tennis arena in the lower level.

The design is a balance of energy-efficiency and client goals/budget expectations for this particular location and this particular site.  You cannot see this project from any public street, as it is buried on a heavily-wooded 19-acre plot filled with habitat and some wetlands.  Please stay-tuned for updates on the particulars of this project as the construction progresses in 2016!

21 Nov 2015
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Treesdale Sod

New Modern Home – Carmel – Treesdale Sod installed along with some landscaping.  It’s great to see this project nearing completion in about 9 months from ground-breaking.  A few final touches on the exterior (front porch, metal shed roof, gutter adjustments) and we will be about there!

24 Oct 2015
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New Modern Home Ditch Road

We are really excited that the New Modern Home Ditch Road is finally underway.  This Mid-Century Modern (MCM) inspired design is on a large plot affording ample privacy in this understated design.

12 Sep 2015
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New Modern Home Chicago

New Modern Home – Chicago in Indian Head Park Village is breaking ground this week.  We are looking forward to seeing progress on this guy in the next 9 months.  Thanks to our client and Joe Trojanowski for a good collaboration.

06 Sep 2015
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New Modern Home Treesdale

New Modern Home Treesdale is scheduled for completion in late Fall 2015 just in-time for our client’s new arrival (baby girl)!  Please check back for more updates as this modern home nears completion.

30 Aug 2015
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New Modern Farmhouse Zionsville

Design concept for New Modern Farmhouse Zionsville is actually downsizing from clients’ previous quarters.  Next step is to find the perfect lot. Hey, who’s that guy in the window?

14 Nov 2014
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Brownstone Design Progress

Design for new brownstone inspired development is coming along in mixed-use area of Indianapolis. Client is currently living in a suburban gated community and is interested in pursuing a different lifestyle-living arrangement in the future (walkable community).

20 Sep 2014
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AIA Architects Home Tour

Thanks to our client (Classic Butler-Tarkington Tudor) for participating in the 2014 AIA Architects Home Tour!  This is going to be the best turn-out yet!  The AIA holds this semi-annual home tour to offer the community at-large an opportunity to see a collection of creativity-driven design solutions, some may be in your neighborhood.

24 Oct 2013
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Custom Bunk Beds

C’mon now, everybody can use some Custom Bunk Beds

This design negotiation between daughters and father ended in a successful compromise for all.  Daughters requested all pink with windows and shutters.  Father proposed, “…how about something simpler and neutral including some nooks to display stuffed animals and the like?  We can always add pink pillows and accessories.  Then if you decide you want to change-up the color, it can be done with ease.”

Thanks to summer intern Alex Webber for building this bad-boy.

19 Jul 2013
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New Modern Lakehouse 2

New Modern Lakehouse 2 located on Lake Wawasee sets the bar higher – hey, I just want to jet ski!

01 Jun 2013
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Alexander Boutique

HAUS enjoyed participating in the design and execution of the Alexander Boutique at The Alexander Hotel located in downtown Indianapolis.  The hotel and boutique gets design inspiration from Scottish engineer, Alexander Ralston‘s layout for Indianapolis in 1821.  A motif of the one-mile square with radiating 45-degree streets is utilized in the boutique concepts and details.  Thanks to Buckingham Companies and Justine Sharp for the collaboration.

15 Jan 2013
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Adagio Penthouse Interior Featured

ADAGIO Penthouse Interior feature in Indianapolis Monthly, January 2013.  The feature made their Top 5 most popular photo albums of 2013.

From IMM – “At this downtown penthouse, Chris Short of HAUS Architecture and Nikki Sutton of Level Interior Architecture + Design put their modern mark on every inch—even the ceiling—to create a contemporary space rivaling the beauty of the condo’s sweeping views. Take a photo tour of the home’s most striking features. Photography by Ryan Kurtz.”