The Architecture Thread

[sugarbutch]

The cabin is farkin sweet. That is my notion of "roughing it".

 

[lefty]

My guess is that the cut wood is brand spanking new or treated in some way to stave off greying and staining.

You can build a bomb shelter in the woods and you'll never keep animals out. Fortunately, in my case, old school techniques work.



lefty

 

[StephenHero]



I dig the stacked wood, but as with gabions I wonder about providing habitat for critters in the walls of the house.

I haven't seen drawings to confirm, but the wood is typically mortared with cement, so there is no more exposure to bugs than a typical wood rainacreen. Typically, the wood is uncoated so that it retains its vapor permeability, but depending on whether additional insulation was required, they may have created a non-permeable wall by coating them in something. FYI, this type of construction is called cordwood construction.

 

[brokencycle]

Anyone feel like sharing some links for repositories of designs - preferably with a mix of different designs. I like a lot of the looks of posts in this thread. Just curious to browse from where you guys are getting them.

 

[StephenHero]

http://divisare.com/

^ My favorite. If you go to the selected projects portion of the site (http://divisare.com/selected-projects), you can search for projects based on all sorts of criteria, and they have some curated groups of projects. You can also make an account and save projects to different folders you set up.

http://www.subtilitas.site/

^ A good Tumblr site that a lot of these come from.

http://www.dezeen.com/

^ Newly published projects. This is where the majority of the stuff in this thread comes from.

 

[StephenHero]

Lazzarini Pickering Architetti
Via Gulia Apartment (Renovation)
Rome, Italy
2005

 

[StephenHero]

Gunnar Martinsson & Wolfgang Huebner
Storkällan Chapel
Stockholm, Sweden
1970

 

[StephenHero]

Antonio da Sangallo the Younger
Palazzo Farnese
Rome
1517

 

[akclothpooper]

Hey @StephenHero, how are you pulling images from Divisare? I've saved projects I like through the website but have always wanted to store some images offline.

 

[StephenHero]

I click on an individual photo in each project's page and then it should open in the window (with flash I believe) and it lets me save the image as a png file. It always saves the image with the file name "canvas" which will give me white blocks of blank space on the side. Then I go into Microsoft paint and crop them. FYI, I'm using the Mozilla Firefox browser. If I remember correctly, it was difficult to save them with Chrome. Not sure if Internet Explorer is easier. Maybe Divisare makes it difficult because they want you to save them in their folder system. I can't blame them. They have an awesome product and I exploit it fully.

 

[StephenHero]

MW Works
Retreat House
Somewhere, Washington
2016

 

[StephenHero]

Salmela Architect
Berquist House and Sauna Retreat
Lake Superior, Minnesota
2016

 

[akclothpooper]

Forgot to thank you Stephen, managed to use your method, thought they had hidden the image file in the webpage source or something similarly difficult. Sadly For some images where you can zoom in a ton (suggesting huge source images) the canvas remains as just the area in the screen. Essentially cropping the image and saving those files. But you're right in that I can hardly blame them with all the great photos on the website.

 

[ethanm]

MW Works
Retreat House
Somewhere, Washington
2016

I love this so much. Please tell me there are some dinghies and/or a sailboat down at the water.

 

[StephenHero]

There are some dinghies and/or a sailboat down at the water.