Very nice Zen design and feel, very relating, even if the fit and finish is not perfect. --------------------------------------------------------- Yin Ma Chuan of the Great Wall – The Seeking the Happiness of Mother Earth Area is the first cultural resort at the foot of the Great Wall of China. IAPA...
I decided to spend some time this week filling in some of the detailed items in the house. First off was the Entry Way coat rack/shoe rack and umbrella holder. The idea was to make this similar to systems we've seen in Japan, but...
We decided to use Corten as the major siding component, as it meets our keep the maintenance minimal and industrial looking requirement. Have a look: -------------------------------------------------- Weathering steel, best-known under the trademark COR-TEN steel and sometimes written without the hyphen as corten steel, is a group of...
This was a busy week for me in my day job, which carried over to the weekend. I was able to clean up the Tesla Solar roof line to look a little more clean as well as the solar and cor-ten walls. Its starting...
This house was a big influence for its clean lines, large glass and corten steel cladding. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welsh practice hyde + hyde architects designed a home for a photographer in a disused quarry on the edge of brecon national park as an object placed on the landscape...
The last week I worked on refining the details of the Tesla Solar roof to generate more then the 105% required by the Living Building Challenge. To do this, I did a solar study based on my proposed location and found that with just the...
My Wife and I was presently surprised to be watching Grand Designs on Netflix and a container house by Patrick Bradley was the feature. It was clean and innovative for a farmer! The results where spectacular and won several awards. Here is a portion of...
This has been the most challenging part of the project so far. We intend to use Tesla Solar Roof smooth tiles to cover the whole roof and for some accents on the side of the building and in sunny areas in the house. We have to...
The mix of steel, bamboo and the "Zen" feel go very well together. ---------------------------------- A music recital room resembling a Japanese tea house hangs like a lantern in the garden of a residence northwest of Washington DC.The glass and bronze pavilion was completed by American architect...
Over the past few days I spent half of my free time working on the excel spreadsheet and the other half refining details on the design. The Excel spreadsheet has been refined to just the information that's needed to build out a building. Its a document...