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Website Intentions
Residential Architecture
The DTS web site intends to express that “private” residential architecture can be as meaningful as more “public” buildings, and can promote equally, if not more, institutional significance.
Required Effort
The DTS web site intends to convey the immense and overwhelming effort that is required to design and construct architecture by providing the seemingly overwhelming amount of information that must be considered and accounted for in the design and construction of architecture.
Expansive Expertise
The DTS web site intends to show the all-encompassing areas of expertise required to clearly express and build a vision of one’s place in the world’s past, present, and future.
Transparent Process
The DTS web site intends to make the generally mysterious architectural design and building process transparent to novices and highlight how each professional’s area of expertise contributes to the process. Inspiration The DTS web site intends to help fulfill the Owners’ desire to encourage similar efforts and inspire patrons of architecture.
Reconciliation
The DTS web site intends to reconcile the intellectual and practical, the highbrow and low brow, the artistic and scientific showing how all will be evident in architecture that fulfills its purpose.
Narrative
The DTS web site intends to show that a thoughtful understanding of an architectural work cannot be reduced to a single insufficient narrative for an exclusive audience but must be considered from multiple narratives and perspectives useful to a diverse audience.
Resource
The DTS web site intends to serve as a resource by highlighting projects, architects, designers, engineers, artists, buildings, products, craftsmen, builders, and manufacturers for a wide audience and providing easy access through contact information and linking.
Advertisement
The DTS web site intends to advertise the expertise, capabilities, and contributions of the designers, engineers, artists, and contractors that designed and constructed the DTS Project House.
mills studio
The DTS web site intends to show potential clients mills studio’s approach and issues mills studio considers in the design and construction process.
Documentation
The DTS web site intends to document the DTS Project House in its totality, the process and product.
Public / Private
The DTS web site intends to make a building built for private use accessible to the public, thus questioning the definition of public and private buildings in an age where more people are likely to experience buildings on the internet than in person.
Vision / Specialization
The DTS web site intends to convey how architecture equally requires the general and the specific, equally requires vision and specialization.
Multiple Encounters
The DTS web site is intended to promote multiple encounters.