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Green Dollhouse
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Green Dollhouse Designers and Builders

Monopoly Manor
Laura Schwartz & Associates and Murdock Young Architects: Brenna Smith and Kiyomi Troemner
Brenna Smith and Kiyomi Troemner first collaborated on projects while at Rice University's School of Architecture in Houston. Originally from Honolulu and Okinawa respectively, Brenna and Kiyomi share a friendship based on sticky rice, flip flops, cold tropical drinks and a love of sunny places. Currently living in New York City, the two hope to open their own firm in the Bay Area someday.

Pre-fab Mod Dollhouse
Andrea Traber Architecture + Sustainability: Andrea Traber, Alexandra Vondeling, Monica Grau, and Piper Kujac
The PreFabMod team is composed of four green architects, lead by Andrea Traber Architecture and Sustainability, with Alexandra Vondeling and Monica Grau of Trachtenberg Architects, and Piper Kujac of C. David Robinson Architects. We are all intrigued with expanding the context of truly green, affordable urban living. This competition was an excellent opportunity for us to put our ideas together in a collaborative process, and to share those ideas with other urban dwellers. We also had lots of fun, harkening back to our early days with dollhouses!

Animal House
Anderson Brulé Architects
ABA is an architectural, interiors and planning firm located in San Jose, California. Our guiding vision is to build our firm through a team-centered culture... creating Architecture formed from inspirational vision, designed with great passion, of a quality that enriches communities and establishes a future benefit to society. The sustainable values inherent in our firm culture provided fertile ground for the Sustainable Dollhouse team's formation. The group was composed of a cross-section of the firm: architects, designers and support staff were all excited about sharing the ideals of sustainability in an innovative medium. It was a wonderful adventure to leap from the foundations of traditional design into the imaginative world of dollhouse design. We found joy in the limitless creativity as well as the simple satisfaction of our tactile interaction with the dollhouse. Our inspiration came both from our memories as children, as well as the wonder and inspiration from our own children. Anderson Brulé Architects has been practicing architecture in San Jose since 1984.

Rosaceae Sustainus (Elevator House)
WGS: Roberta Pennington, Leslie Cooper, Paul Gibbons, Natalie Hutley, Liza Meek, Josh Orona, Stephen Price, Tanya Schneider, Debora Souza, Jeff Tathwell, Margaret Ward
WGS, established in Portland, Oregon in 1978, is an eleven-person firm that specializes in space planning and interior design for commercial tenants, healthcare facilities, and multi-family housing. This diverse range of projects share common principles of reflecting the client's values, encompassing the user's needs, respecting its location, and responding to environmental concerns. Firm members assist clients from pre-design planning, through space planning and interior design, onto construction, and finally post occupancy items. WGS seeks to exceed expectations through creativity, consistency, and integrity.

Tree Fort
Erlynne Kitagawa, Stahnke Kitagawa
Having been born in Hawaii much of my sensibility and feel for the environment was formed there. After living in Boston for fifteen years and working at a number of architecture firms as well as the state Executive Office of Communities and Development I moved to Maine. In 1996 I co-founded Stahnke + Kitagawa Architects, a practice which emphasizes sustainable and environmentally responsible design. My growing interest in gardening here led to designing and constructing rustic cedar structures. Much of the inspiration for the dollhouse design came from my son and his friend's fort-building in the woods. My involvement with the Waldorf school community has also taught me a great deal about learning and play. Our life here, so much of which is spent outdoors, has been a great influence on me and my work.

Mobile Dollhouse
Loni Sue Sullivan, Matt Russell, and Peter Zychowski/University of Colorado at Boulder
Loni, Matt, and Peter chose the Green Dollhouse Project competition as part of their final studio project after seeing the competition in Dwell Magazine. Under the guidance of Julee Herdt, AIA, the dollhouse was created using an intuitive approach that started with a series of gestural drawings. The team then incorporated green materials such as Gridcore, a material developed by Julee, and functioning elements that reinforce environmentally responsible architectural patterns and behaviors. The Green Dollhouse Project provided an excellent opportunity to experiment with materials that have been recently developed, and to understand how design decisions impact the end user. Loni, Matt and Peter all graduated with a Bachelors of Environmental Design in December of 2004.

the bamboo loft
Rosie Hanna, Joanna Manders, Christine Miller/California College of the Arts
In making The Bamboo Loft, we benefited from the diversity of our backgrounds in areas such as sculpture, furniture, industrial design, biology, graphic design and painting. The balance of our combined skills allowed us to create a modern dollhouse that is interesting conceptually and at the same time functional as a product. In addition to thinking about sustainable materials and processes, our approach was influenced by ideas about play, interaction, customization, functionality, tactile qualities of materials, and educating the user about green design. Our process was organic and open which allowed us to and make adjustments along the way in order to make the house more green, more functional, and more fun!

The Patchwork Home
Anuradha Lingappa, Usha Lingappa, Krista Farey
Anuradha Lingappa is a nature girl and 6th grade student at Synergy School in San Francisco. She loves to write imaginatively and make drawings of buildings and would like to be an author, illustrator, artist and architect. She publishes "Powerful Pixie," her own quarterly magazine and plays extensively in the partly home-built dollhouse city in her bedroom, "Sunshine Hill," a place where toys come to life and the girl power is so strong that the bad guys are vanquished every time. She created the "Patchwork Home," with the help of her sister and mother, as part of her Girl Scout architecture and environmental design badge project. With her troop she has won ribbons twice in the Coyote Point Museum holiday gingerbread house and habitat contest, and with her family has traveled to green-oriented projects throughout the world.

Green Dollhouse with Green Roof
Yasuo Tokuoka, Teruhiko Makita, Ziro Mitsumoto
Yasuo Tokuoka started his forty years career as a structural engineer specializing in design of arch dams in the Department of Water Resources in Tokyo, Japan. He has presided over seminars in Okinawa on infrastructure landscaping technology while serving as an executive officer in a construction firm Kumagaigumi.Co.Ltd. He has been studying a new type of building structure that looks like a small green hill covered with trees both on top and sides (as cavemen might have loved to live in).

Play Outside
Tony Garza, Tony Garza Architect
Tony worked for eleven years with respected firms in the Midwest and Southwest regions before establishing his own design studio in Denver, Colorado. Specializing in prime residential projects from detailed remodels to multi-unit condo developments, the studio has an overriding commitment to quality design and a high level of client service. The studio also donates time with local artists providing art and architecture awareness programs to local schools.

Remodeled Dollhouse
URS Corporation: Manda Magee, Ryan Archer, Juli Castillo, Andrew Howard, Susan Priest
URS Corporation is the largest architectural and engineering firm in the West Michigan area. We designed the First LEED Manufacturing Facility in the country and are in the process of completing two other LEED projects (a high school and a medical facility). Our office also has 11 LEED Accredited Professionals in all aspects of design. Though our designs do not focus on homes, we do live in them. We're also passionate about sustainable design and we want to use our experience to help educate our friends and family on all of the "green" opportunities available . . . and have a little fun ourselves.

Metal Dollhouse
Tracey McKay
Tracey McKay has always been interested in design, she is hoping to go to school for architecture and get involved in some hands on projects, like Habitat for Humanity at some point in the near future. This is the first project done that was not 'just for fun.