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100 stick house

By Rob on January 22, 2013

The beginnings of an idea for a structure built within the rules of UK domestic permitted development, consisting of exactly the same size timber section/length throughout and well suited to standard timber sheet sizes for cladding. Shown here in 3 repeating bays and resulting in 100 x 4.2m long sticks. Well, 99 in fact but […]

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home4self

home4self

By Rob on December 8, 2012

I’m nearing the end of the design process for home4self – always a good time to revisit the original sketches.

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Facing up

Facing up

By Rob on January 14, 2010

Facing up, originally uploaded by eversion. There’s something very satisfying about the way this building keeps facing you as you round the bend. Successfully enfronting the site I think Charles Moore would say. update: Yep, enfronting it is: I should get this out of my system. It must be getting quite dull, all this relentless […]

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