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Timber cladding decision

I got the go ahead today for timber cladding following a meeting with building control and discussions on the fire regs. Above are the calculatiosn based on "the enclosing rectangle method". The excel calculation is the interpolation of the size of the rectangle and published tables.

phew!

Brick dimensions

I always forget.

Buildstore 2

 
 
 

More images from Buildstore

Buildstore 1

 
 
 
 

Images from display at Build Store in Livingston 01/12/2007.

Textures / Materials for Sketchup

http://www.cgtextures.com/

House design - update

It may change as the timber cladding is currently in doubt...

Fire and stove

The lovely Hwam elements stove

The Carola Chair by spanish furniture company

nice chair by Adreu world

Stair with concrete plinth

stair with concrete plinth...

Stair design

This is the first stab at a stair layout with open treads.

Maekawa House

House in Tokyo, 1945 designed by Kunio Maekawa
photo by a Columbian Architect in Tokyo

Rafael Moneo:

Reduction is always risky, but [Alvaro] Siza's observations [on his working process] could be simplified in this manner:

"place: origin of all architecture."

"distance: provided by the fact that it's others who build."

"discussion: pay attention to those who will be using the building."

"contingency: the solutions to the specific problems of each job are to be found in the conflicts that accompany the reality of the context of the work."

"uncertainty: thanks to the vagueness of the goal being pursued at the start of the job. The reaction is not resignation. On the contrary, that all well-done jobs end in surprise is a source of satisfaction."

"mediation: architecture as something that calls for group work, accepting one's limitations (constructive, functional, legal, etc.), sacrificing direct personal expression."

"nonsatisfaction: every architectural work is, in the eyes of its architect, unfinished; the architect necessarily feels that his solution failed to resolve all the conflicts inherent in the surrounding reality."

"evidence: architecture as the opportunity to test the uniqueness of things, the uniqueness that in their evidence allows us to discern their very essence."


from daily dose of arcitecture from in turn Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategies in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects (2004)

Minimum space standards

Minimum space standards made an unscheduled return to the housing sector last week when regeneration agency English Partnerships unveiled a set of minimum requirements that go beyond the old Parker Morris standards abandoned 40 years ago. The new standards apply to all EP schemes from 1 November 2007, the agency confirmed this week.

The agency’s requirement for minimum internal floor areas (MIFA), calculated in line with the RICS Gross Internal Floor Area, are:

• 1 Bed / 2 person dwellings – 51 m2
• 2 Bed / 3 person dwellings – 66 m2
• 2 Bed / 4 person dwellings – 77 m2
• 3 Bed / 5 person dwellings – 93 m2
• 4 Bed / 6 person dwellings – 106 m2

RAL colours

RAL 7024


RAL 7021


RAL 7015


RAL 5011


RAL 5004

SOURCES ONE AND TWO

Window colour spec - darker colour

new colour - darker than previous
ref R38 G38 B43

Colour: the spec

The specification:
#353C42
or
R53 G60 B66

Colour and what not to do

I found the colour that I was thinking of (charcoal blue) for my house windows on an old church and also an example fo what not to do - white windows eek!

Poor detailing but interesting

closed cavity shows timber decay from H E R E

"bold simplicity threaded by an odd streak of vanity"

Quote about Scottish Architecture:



source
Ranald McInnes
Rubblemania: Ethic and Aesthetic in Scottish Architecture