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This house, pictured below, is meant to be built in a few stages. The outter shell is erected first and then the use of gas instant hot water means that it can be moved into almost immediately whilst the inner shell is built. Aside from the essential plumbing that a kitchen and bathroom need I will be cladding the shed with Alsanite on the 3 unclad sides. This will make for weatherproofedness (don't run your spellchecker on that) yet plenty of light to work by. Where do you live? Well the space around the inner shell is 3 meters deep so that means that a caravan or similar temporary abode can be erected in one of the perimeter areas, or all of them if necessary, where one lives whilst finishing the inner area. All of my dimensions for the inner shell also match multiples of the commonly used sheeting materials so that I have reduced the amount of waste materials one has when cutting fiddly pieces to fit small or odd measured walls and floors. The two shots here depict the summer and winter sun and you can see that the inner living area of the house is fully shaded at midday on January the 1st, (Summer here in Australia) but quite well baked by the sun on the 1st of July (Winter). The phrase I often read is that verandahs should be 3 meters deep to make them functional, to which I agree, but on a single story house this means that passive solar concepts create a more complex design. Celestries and the like would be needed to allow the sun to enter the house and warm any large thermal mass objects, like concrete/brick floors or inner walls, and I wanted to avoid complex, read expensive, architectural feats. In Summer opening the lateral window along the lower edge of the
south wall allows for a cross breeze which can replace the air volume
easily. In the shot titles "Louvres" you can see how I would attach greenhouse style cladding (glass or polycarbonate). Eventually the louvres will stay open and be fixed to poles to become permanent awnings around the house, sliding glass doors/windows will fill take their place between the uprights. There will also be some low level brick/mortar work to give edges to garden beds and foundation for windows but the more light let in the better. Got to keep the plants happy :) The next stage to the building Stage 1b Please email me should you have any questions or additions for this page. |
