background preloader

Alternative living

Facebook Twitter

Www.econesthomes.com/wp-content/themes/econest/stock-plans/Peregrine32.5M.pdf. Takumi Company, Traditional Japanese Architectural Woodworking, Seattle, WA. Natural Building Workshops. Welcome to Timber Guides - Design & Build. Sustainable Building System Stock Plans. EcoNest stock plans are architect-designed heirloom-quality homes- every aspect of the design and the specification of these homes is conceived with ecology, beauty, your health and well-being in mind.

Sustainable Building System Stock Plans

Not everyone can afford the luxury of hiring an architect to design a custom home. Yet good design will have a positive effect on the quality of your life. It will also increase the value of your home. We offer these standardized stock plans with the intention of making well designed EcoNest floor plans available and affordable to more people. Each set of drawings comes with a project manual that provides you, your builder and all sub-contractors with complete healthy home specifications that you will need to ensure that your new home will be a health enhancing environment.

For some of you, studying these plans will be a step along the way in helping you to define a future home uniquely tailored to your desires. The Peregrine Series Use of the Stock Plan Book. 2012 Natural Building Skillbuilder Internship – 10 week. OUR Ecovillage1565 Baldy Mountain Rd - Shawnigan LakeDetails Map Data Map data ©2014 Google Date/Time Date(s) - Jun 5 - Aug 9 Location OUR Ecovillage Every year a handful of builders join O.U.R. 1) Option one will be 4 months long beginning on May 1st, 2012. $4500 (includes the Natural Building and Community Colloquium, OUR Permaculture Design Certificate, the Timber Framing Guild Rendevous, all building workshops including Robert LaPorte’s Econest Intensive, the plaster workshop, foundations etc etc…..and site/food/field-trips) 2) Option two will be 10 weeks long beginning on June 5th and ending on August 9th, 2012. $3800 (including timber frame workshops, Econest Intensive, clay plaster workshop, field trips and site/food expenses).

2012 Natural Building Skillbuilder Internship – 10 week

This system is a “Light Clay” wall system with a framed Matrix that stands inside a beautiful Japanese timberframe. It is very helpful if you have basic framing/woodworking skills: cutting, fastening etc. O.U.R. Bookings are closed for this event. How to Make a Home in a Cargo Container. How to Insulate a Cargo Container. How to Buy Used Shipping Containers. How to Build Cargo Container Homes. How to Subvert Your House: Buying, Designing & Building Cargo Container Homes. How To: Buy, Design or Build DIY Cargo Container Homes Article by Steve, filed under Houses & Residential in the Architecture category.

How to Subvert Your House: Buying, Designing & Building Cargo Container Homes

What’s involved in buying, designing and building cargo container homes that are more than just art projects? Cargo container homes are a perfect example of thinking outside the box while living inside one, but thinking is one thing and doing is another. Careful planning is required before building and moving in. (image via: Midwest Storage Containers) There are several fun and practical reasons to live in a cargo container home. (image via: Sea Box and American Mobile Office) Log Cabin Designs from the Historic American Building Survey. Log Cabin Designs from the Historical American Building Survey View photos and measured drawings of floor plans, exterior elevations and construction details.

Log Cabin Designs from the Historic American Building Survey

These eighteenth and nineteenth century log cabins are just a few samples of the hundreds of log building designs that have been preserved through the HABS. You can view photos and measured drawings of floor plans, exterior elevations and construction details. 1837 Pioneer Log Cabin, Public Square Vicinity, Milton, Rock County, WI Card # WI0107. 8 Shipping Containers Equal 1 Family Home Designboom.

Previous image Next image Like deep dish pizza, prop comics, and nude beaches, there seems to be no gray area when it comes to shipping container homes: some people truly love them while others despise them.

8 Shipping Containers Equal 1 Family Home Designboom

Maybe it's the setting or the cherry red exterior, but I find this one compellingly livable. What do you think? Is this home a compelling example of adaptive reuse? According to Designboom, the interior is a mix of "galvanized steel, poppy red columns and wood" that work to create an "industrial atmosphere" preferred by the home owners. Aside from the grate walk featured in the upstairs portion of the home (walking barefoot on that = ouch!) Read all about the construction of this home on Designboom. Saving Food From The Fridge. Korean artist Jihyun Ryou, a graduate of the Dutch Design Academy Eindhoven, translates traditional knowledge on food storage into contemporary design.

Saving Food From The Fridge

She found the inspiration for her wall-mounted storage units while listening to the advice of her grandmother, a former apple grower, and other elderly. Her mission: storing food outside the refrigerator. On her blog, "Shaping traditional oral knowledge", Jihyun Ryou explains the motivations underlying her work, which actually go beyond food storage: "This project is about traditional oral knowledge which has been accumulated from experience and transmitted by mouth to mouth.

Particularly focusing on the food preservation, it looks at a feasible way of bringing that knowledge into everyday life. Talking about fruits and vegetables as living beings sounds rather woolly, but it is actually true. Storing food outside the refrigerator Damp sand Keeping vegetables in slightly damp sand has been a storage method for many centuries. Ethylene gas.