Wide Load Freight (greater than 2.5m)

Here is a link to a pdf on Wide Load Freighting. Might be a good reason to keep the width of your minima space below 2.5m.

http://www.bmacoal.com/sustainable_development/health_and_safety/BMA_Wide_Load_Freight_and_Load_Restraint_Guideline.pdf

Corbusiers Body Ratio and Fibonaccis Rabits

Boat Cablin Design

Here are some plans from the book "Understanding Boat Design" by Ted Brewer. It is amazing how much they squeeze in. Some advise from the book: 'Most small boats have too many berths (beds) and to little storage space.' While I know all of us will only be putting in 1 bed don't forget about storage space for all the other stuff you will need.

Here is a sectional diagram of a possible 2.4m cube showing study and cooking activity.

Great Books

Hey guys just thought youd like to check out these two books on metric drawings. they have everything to do with minimal sizes of furniture and space from aeroplanes to automobiles, restaurants, kitchens, bathrooms etc.

The first is Neufert Architects Data, Third Edition, By Ernst and Peter Neufert
and the second is Metric Handbook Planning and Design Data, Second Edition, Edited by David Adler

Hope this is usefull

Tablinum

Here are the two sheets from my Tablinum presentation.

Growing House

Hey guys here is a link to a job in France. While it may not be terribly relevent it is worth a look:

http://www.new-territories.com/spidernet2.htm

Tablinum posters

final product of the tablinum project

Tablinum sketches

here are most of my sketches for the first project (tablinum), i dont do very many.

I ran around school taking lots of photos last Friday. If anyone thinks they might be helpful let me know and I'll post some more up...

Sorry I should elaborate: This is a combination of my first four ideas, them being:

1. Four seperate egg shaped pods.
2. Converted shipping container.
3. Timber box.
4. Tent and accessories.

I have drawn from my first concept and seperated the minima space into two zones; an active study cooking zone, and a passive sleep and cleansing zone. I like this because it gives me two smaller units which are easy to handle and site, yet minimises the time spent exposed to the elements etc. while in transition between the activities.
I like the idea of converting a shipping container as it re-uses an existing shell thus saving resources and greatly reduces construction time and costs. Although I have somewhat abandoned the idea because of the difficulty in siting the container due to it's large size and weight, I will attempt to use recycled materials in the construction of the finished concept.
The timber box concept is similar to the converted shipping container. I really like this idea because the material feels as though it has an appropriate life span, is easy to work with and suits the size of the project. The smaller size of the combined concept means that member sizes need not be as big. And if thought out well there is the potential to pack up the living pods (pull apart) so they can be transported more easily if need be and stored in pieces. The aim will be to transport the dissasembled units on a small dimestic trailer.
Drawing from the tent concept the fitout will be minimal only providing the most fundimental comforts. Structural concepts will also be adopted from this idea.

Here is another concept that I really like although I have to admit it is probably a bit more of a joke than anything else.

Here is my first concept which is a series of small egg-like pods each accomodating a different activity. Pros and cons are written on the page but any extras that anyone would like to put forward would be greatly appreciated.

Hi guys, I also spent a little time last week going over the spaces required and the kind of environment I thought they should be. My four year old daughter helped as is fairly clear.

Minima

Hi there!

I had a very boring day yesterday. Hence, I made some progress on Minima.

N.B. Excuse my spelling

The first post is a very beginning… I tried to figure out what spaces I need and their relationships…

Other diagrams I find self-exploratory enough… however, i'm happy to clarify anything

I just wanna mention that it is not the design by any means. I still need to come up with concept sketches (have no ideas so far)...

BTW i really recommend Paul Laseau book ‘Graphic Thinking for Architects & Designers’… stole a lot from him. :)

Any opinions... please comment :)

Hey everybody here is a link to possiably the greatest resource on the web. Lots of great architecture lectures (video format) and other stuff too. Enjoy.

http://www.ted.com/

Tab-tabli-tablinum

Thumbnails i've been thinking of...


Looking at the cashier's office in the atrium reminded me of the possibilities from a single folding form to create spaces yet still retain a unified look. It's rectalinear qualities allude to it being foldable, though i'm still working this out.
Interesting idea, possibly a bit restrictive and not closed up enough. Am trying hard to include more existing features in the atrium.
That's what i've done below.

Beside the toilet entry I thought about making use of the existing wall, large wooden bench and balcony (which could be built around and used as a window. I thought about how the one bench could be converted by another moving piece of furniture over the top.












The space under the stairs going up towards the A+B reception seemed like a natrual place to build around to create a hierarchy of living heights. i've played around with the different activites that can take place in such a space.

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