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...
One of My Favorites! -- Cheng Design has done working on this concrete home design that is built and situated in Menlo Park, California. Nested in a beautiful natural landscape, this modern home entitled as House 6 is a great inspiration for you who are planning to...
I'm happy with the overall structure now and Ive moved on to detailing the house. This week was a learning experience. I found that if I make structural changes, this time to accommodate flush mounted flooring, caused a dozen other items to move out of alignment...
Over the past week I've started to add the outside "Corten" steel cladding to the 2nd and 3rd floor. There is a 9" gap with 8" 16 gauge steel studs between all outside cladding and the container walls to allow for a large amount of...
For the past 2 weeks Ive been working on custom cabinets and shelves winch I feel are about half complete at this time. There's over a dozen cabinets placed thought the house including kitchen, pantry, garage, laundry, closets and bathrooms. Having the learning curve of...
A lot has been complete int he past week and a half. A solid week went into creating a floating stair design for the stairs for Level 1-2 and Level 2-3. the concept was to have stairs made form C channel steel and steel cable. We...
