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Under way now! Lots of piles requiring dueling line trucks. This site is adjacent to a historical marker denoting a U...
05/22/2026

Under way now! Lots of piles requiring dueling line trucks. This site is adjacent to a historical marker denoting a Union naval blockade in 1864...

A few new pics of this one... had a great meeting with the owner and the construction team Tuesday - rough framing wrapp...
05/22/2026

A few new pics of this one... had a great meeting with the owner and the construction team Tuesday - rough framing wrapping up in another week or so - and we now have a plan in place to manage air distribution.

After a bit of a delay due to bad weather during previous planned trips up to PKS, we were able to get back up there to ...
04/24/2026

After a bit of a delay due to bad weather during previous planned trips up to PKS, we were able to get back up there to take a few pictures of this house (post-occupancy). The sun was getting high, so we weren't able to finish shooting the back (too much backlighting). Will save the rest for another day.

Framing now underway on another two new houses. One in the forest by the golf course and the other across the road from...
03/28/2026

Framing now underway on another two new houses. One in the forest by the golf course and the other across the road from the beach. Here's the one across from the beach. The b/w illustrations were done before the switch to a shingle roof.

Framing now underway on another two new houses. One in the forest by the golf course and the other across the road from...
03/28/2026

Framing now underway on another two new houses. One in the forest by the golf course and the other across the road from the beach. Here's the one by the golf course...

One more for the day...
03/25/2026

One more for the day...

For this AI exercise, I fished out a design concept I did a few years ago for a client to replace a fairly derelict and ...
03/25/2026

For this AI exercise, I fished out a design concept I did a few years ago for a client to replace a fairly derelict and long abandoned fast food building. I first tried to compel the AI to synergize with Google Earth with actual site coordinates... to reconstruct the context. However, I learned quickly that the AI is currently not capable of that degree of cross-platform synergy. So, I settled for a fairly generic streetscape with some random greenspace. This does not represent the actual context, but it in a similar spirit. I also found a limitation in that the AI is trained to assume that most roads have two-way traffic flow - so I found it impossible to compel to the model to create one-way traffic flow over multiple lanes. But after quite a bit of back and forth... and cross-fixing various iterations with Photoshop, I was able to compile a reasonably logical image map. This image was created over a few different sessions and tons of iterations and Photoshop edits. My rough model image (image 2) proved to be a good base for the final picture. One technique that seemed to work was to let the site plan line drawing remain in the base model image - so I was able to use that line work to explain to the AI how to construct the parking lot and sidewalks. Fun stuff...

This is an early version of the house we finished in PKS a year or so ago. In this version, the right wing was elevated...
03/22/2026

This is an early version of the house we finished in PKS a year or so ago. In this version, the right wing was elevated, but not enough to create the understory that we envisioned at the outset. I would have liked to have explored this version a bit more before it hit an early budget crunch, but it naturally evolved into something cost effective and practical. Here we are in 2026 with all of these new tools - and I am very eager to advance my understanding of how to most effectively communicate with AI models to produce desired outcomes. So, I thought that the early study of the Ocain house presented a unique opportunity to study input/output synergy. At the beginning, I had envisioned a rather austere, monochrome structure. I learned through the process that the owner had notably different ideas about color and materiality. But for this study, I stuck to my roots and decided to treat this as a wood-formed, site-cast concrete structure. The original program did not call for a pool, but for this exercise I thought it made sense. Also important to this vis study are elements of gardening. The actual built house includes a lot of natural pines, oak and yaupon - blended with the owner's preference for turf with strategic ornamental camelias, magnolia and a single featured Japanese red maple. But for this exercise, I took a different garden approach... an organic blend of Southern Coastal maritime forest with Asian and Polynesian influences. One this note, I thought the AI was fairly responsive. Due to the inherent 1-off nature of iterative AI image creation, it is difficult to retrieve similar result from one scene setup to another. So, of critical importance for this study was to figure out how to use "character" images as interchangeable reference content between image files - literally asking the AI to grab content from one file and apply it to another file with different camera parameters. It was a little tedious... but it worked well enough to establish general continuity between different images. The ultimate goal of this study as a proof of concept was to push the limit of AI capability to achieve meaningful results using the most basic starter model possible. It's not perfect and the limitations are probably easily noticeable even from the most casual observer. But on the personal learning curve, I'd have to rate this as a successful endeavor.

Another virtual resurrection. Amazed at how much the AI can produce with an austere model sketch image and a few strate...
03/19/2026

Another virtual resurrection. Amazed at how much the AI can produce with an austere model sketch image and a few strategic conversational prompts. Minor cleanup in Photoshop post-op.

This is a prototype I started developing a few years back at the request of a GC client. The client had only 2 requirem...
03/13/2026

This is a prototype I started developing a few years back at the request of a GC client. The client had only 2 requirements - primarily hip roofs and around 1800 sf. Haven't built one yet - but you never know. Thought I would take a minute to do some visualization. I asked the AI to make the materials a bit more real with a neutral color palette - and to sight the model within an NC beachscape. I also asked it for a version with a reflecting pool feature. Overall - a pretty decent interpretation of the vision.

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