Our house is our corner of the world…it is our first universe, a real cosmos in every sense of the word. …it is an instrument with which to confront the cosmos.
~ Gaton Bachelard
Website Intentions
Residential Architecture
The DTS web site intends to express that “private” residential architecture can be as considered, as complex, and as meaningful as more “public” buildings, and can promote equally, if not more, institutional significance by manifesting the structure giving role of the family.
Required Effort
The DTS web site intends to convey the immense and overwhelming effort that is required to design and construct architecture by presenting the expansive amount of information and competing interests that must be considered and accounted for in the design process and constructed outcome.
Expansive Expertise
The DTS web site intends to show the all-encompassing areas of expertise required to clearly construct, express, and build a vision of one’s place in the world, and highlight how each professional’s area of expertise contributes to the process and end product.
Transparent Process
The DTS web site intends to make the somewhat mysterious architectural design and building process transparent to novices and make areas outside of their expertise more visible to professionals.
Inspiration
The DTS web site intends to help fulfill the Owners’ desire to encourage similar construction efforts and inspire patrons of architecture.
Reconciliation
The DTS web site intends to reconcile the intellectual and the practical, the highbrow and the low brow, and the artistic and the scientific arguing that all will be evident in architecture that fulfills its potential.
Narrative
The DTS web site intends to show that a single narrative is insufficient for a thoughtful critique or experience of an architectural work and multiple narratives and perspectives are required to make architecture and its critiques relevant and useful for a diverse audience.
Process / Product
The DTS web site intends to argue that at their best today’s architectural end products are the result of their creation process, and show that the process and result are both intertwined and distinct entities that can be individually evaluated, but the ultimate evaluation of success or failure must be of the finished building.
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.
Communication
The DTS web site intends to serve as a communication tool to attract interest and solicit proposals from contractors, vendors, and fabricators.
mills studio
The DTS web site intends to show potential clients mills studio’s approach, and the 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, from the process to the outcome, from the design to the construction.
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.
Digital Arts & Architecture
The DTS web site intends to promote a way of living based upon a vision of the world in which architecture and art play a very active role and promote the professionals, craftsmen, manufacturers, and products that make this vision manifest much like John Entenza and then David Traver’s Arts & Architecture magazine endeavored from 1945-1967.
Multiple Encounters
The DTS web site is intended to promote multiple encounters just as significant architecture promotes.