Living with Nature: The Quiet Luxury of Custom Residential Design
There’s a feeling that washes over you when you step into a space where nature is truly present—not just seen but felt. It’s the [...]
Building on a Challenging Site: The Power of Architectural Feasibility Studies
Embarking on the journey of building a custom home on a unique undeveloped property brings both excitement and challenges. It's essential to navigate these [...]
Architectural Feasibility Studies for Custom Homes
Do you have a great idea for a project, or are you eyeing a beautiful piece of land for a new custom home? Do [...]
What to Know Before you Start a Custom Modern Home in Ohio
Are you considering designing and building a custom modern home in Ohio? Building any home is a new experience. Building a custom, modern home [...]
Behind the Design (Part II): The Shimla House
This project spotlight is Part III of a comprehensive design process for an exceptional custom modern home in central Ohio. Find out more about [...]
Behind the Design: The Shimla House
This project spotlight is Part II of a comprehensive design process for an exceptional custom modern home in central Ohio. Find out more about [...]
Behind the Design Concept: The Shimla House
This project spotlight is Part I of a comprehensive design process for an exceptional custom modern home in central Ohio. Find out more about [...]
4 Massing Strategies for Building on Sloped Sites
There's something exhilarating about building a house on the side of a mountain or hillside. It's like you're on the precipice of the world [...]
Design Inspiration: Wooded Lakeside Retreats
When designing lake houses, providing an abundant amount of windows to frame views of the surroundings is paramount. While lake houses exist throughout the [...]
Keeping Water Out: 7 Design Techniques to Control Water Movement
Roofs, exterior walls, and foundation assemblies are constantly working to protect your home against a barrage of natural forces. But it's not surprising that [...]
Timeless Design: Qualities of Exceptional & Enduring Architecture
Buildings and homes are revered because they're timeless. Tadao Ando, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Peter Zumthor. Their works stand out because they have a [...]
Behind the Design Concept: Ontario Off-Grid
This project spotlight features a Concept Design for a modern off-grid home in Ontario, Canada. Find out more about this project on our project page. Whether [...]
Exterior Design – What to Know Before You Start
The all-important exterior design: It's what people see first, and it's what makes a lasting impression. Some of the most frequently asked questions we [...]
Rethinking Home Design in a Changing World
As the coronavirus continues to spread, we find ourselves spending more and more time at home. Rooms where we once spent only a few waking [...]
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5 [BIG] Design Moves
Whether building a new house or renovating an existing one, the design process starts with the big picture ideas and then winds its way [...]
Behind the Design (Part I): Lincoln Bluff
We're very excited to introduce our Lincoln Bluff Residence - a new custom home in Eastern Washington. It's a unique house for a unique site [...]
Key Considerations When Building in Remote Locations
The idea of building a home in a remote location is something many people dream of. There's plenty to love: the privacy, the peaceful [...]
Designing Your House to Respond to the Sun: An Intro to Solar Orientation
At YR Architecture + Design we're a big proponent of taking advantage of the earth's natural resources to help improve and regulate the spaces we [...]
Our Wish: Improve Our Relationship With Our Homes
The New Year brings with it a fresh start and a sense of rejuvenation, rebirth, and positivity. By welcoming the new year on a positive [...]
3 Characteristics of Successful Humanitarian Architecture
Humanitarian architecture is challenging. Resources are low. Locations are remote. Climates are harsh. Here's the top characteristics that make humanitarian architecture projects successful.
Building Key Sustainable Water Projects in Underserved Communities
Water. You need it to survive, but it's dangerous enough to kill you. Nearly a billion people in the developing world don't have access to [...]
What Type of Glazing Is Best For My Window Walls?
With so many different types of glazing out there, it's sometimes hard to know which glass is best for your project. There are various thicknesses, [...]
Affordable Home Design: Good Site Planning
Our previous article gave an introduction into creating an affordable home. In this post, we take a deeper look into one of the first places [...]
Affordable Home Design: An Introduction
Would you like to create an affordable home? If you're one of those people who are deciding to build a new home over buying an [...]
Building Low-Tech, Sustainable Clay Brick Houses
How would you build a house in a remote location of the world with little money? You would probably use as many locally sourced materials [...]
Building Low-Cost, Sustainable Bamboo Houses
Bamboo. It's environmentally-friendly, sustainable, renewable, strong in tension and compression, and noted for its rapid growth. Bamboo houses are common in many parts of [...]
3 Effective Design Strategies for Small Modern Homes
Building smaller, compact homes is gaining momentum. People are realizing that living in smaller well-designed modern homes has many benefits, both quantitative and qualitative, over larger traditional [...]
Design for Social Impact: Sra Pou Vocational School
This humanitarian project is the first in a series of inspiring success Design for Social Impact stories of projects and architects around the world determined [...]
Reclaimed Timber: The Benefits and Challenges
We used 100yr old reclaimed timber beams in our Fombell Addition in Western PA project. To learn more about our design process using these salvaged materials, [...]
Introducing Our Modern House Addition in Western PA
In this article, we wanted to share with you more about an exciting project we've been working on in collaboration with Mary Barensfeld Architecture. The [...]
Inspiring Modern Mountain Houses & Why They’re Successful
Living in the mountains can be peaceful and magical. Mountains provide some of the most scenic landscapes and diverse ecosystems in the world. There's fresh [...]