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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.

Posted in design, drawing, home4self, housing | Tagged home4self, housing, self-build

Development of spaces

Development of spaces

By Rob on January 15, 2010

I may not be the only one seeking support from the Bay Area idiom and the work of Charles Moore I mentioned yesterday. I opened today’s BD magazine to find a review by Ellis Woodman of a fantastic project by James Gorst and was struck immediately by its similarity with a Moore project I’d seen […]

Posted in architecture, housing | Tagged architecture, charlesmoore, housing

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 […]

Posted in architecture, books, design, home4self, housing, ideas, theory | Tagged architecture, charlesmoore, home4self, housing

a landscape problem

By Rob on February 25, 2009

Happy birthday blog, you just turned 5 years old. Here’s an interesting article on static caravan parks: Trailers have long interested Morrish. He likes the simplicity of long, narrow, free-standing structures. Light and breezes come in from either side. If ceilings are pushed to 10 feet or higher, small rooms can feel much larger. And […]

Posted in environment, housing, ideas, landscape | Tagged housing, landscape

Updike on houses

By Rob on February 5, 2009

The dwelling places of Europe have an air of inheritance, or cumulative possession—a hive occupied by generations of bees. In America, the houses seem privately ours, even when we have not built them up, in pine two-by-fours and four-by-eight-foot sheets of plywood, from a poured-concrete foundation. Houses are, as Newland Archer sensed, our fate. The […]

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compact family home

By Rob on April 29, 2008

Richard Horden in BD on the development (2 years on) of his micro compact home: Horden is now working on the family compact home, where kids have their own cube. ‘I’m constantly coming up with variants,’ he says. ‘Next is a low-carbon version. It could be built like a car on a production line, but […]

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