DesignBuildBLUFF is a program for graduate students to realize architecture that nurtures the spirit and improves the lives of all who experience it.
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2010

The Windcatcher House

Studio23

 

2009

WhiteHorse

 

2008

ShipShop and BathHouse

 

2007

Benally house

 

2006

Sweet Caroline

 

2005

Johnson house

 

2004

Rosie Joe house

 

2002

Kunga house

 

2001

Urban Treehouse

 

2000

Band stands

The Windcatcher House
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Design term: May 2010 - Sep 2010

Construction term: Sep 2010 - Dec 2010

Participants: 22 students of the University of Colorado Denver

 

Maxine and Maurice Begay

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Maxine Begay

  

The Begay home is our first project since opening the door to more universities. The students of architecture of the University of Colorado Denver designed a home that responds to a sustainable ethos by using local clay and soils for rammed earth walls and compressed brick for a wind catching chimney which cools the temperature inside during the high summer temperatures.

 

 
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