Yogan and Menthé, carpenters from France, who have been featured in our last two books, stopped by here yesterday on their way home. They have spent the last three months hitchhiking and working on the West Coast, from Northern California up to Orcas Island. Kindred spirits, these two have had a wonderful time, working with a variety of people, trading work for room and board.
We’ll be posting photos of their projects in the near future.
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Farm building in Ireland with huge (4′ × 6′ or so) roof tiles split from local stone, from our book Shelter. Photo by Lloyd Kahn.
I was shooting photos of the old one and Louie said, “Hey, the one across the street is identical.” Sure enough. Twins. On the ocean side of the highway in Fort Bragg.
Martin Bartlett’s pod home at Pacific High School in the Santa Cruz mountains, Calif., 1968.
This method of construction, developed by Bob McElroy in Big Sur, Calif., consisted of trimming ¼″ sheets of plywood at the top, bending them over, and attaching to each other with batts; shingles on exterior, circular plexiglas skylight at top.
Photos by Lloyd Kahn
The Conestoga Hut uses minimal materials, is simple to build, and provides durable shelter well suited to the Pacific Northwest climate. The Conestoga Hut emphasizes keeping people dry and secure.
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From Jim Macey
Home decor magazine, House Beautiful, recently made its picks for the best tiny home in each state and one unique home in the woods of Bethlehem got top honor here in Connecticut.
This unique home in Bethlehem listed as an “earth house” is perfect for Eco-concious guests. The one-bedroom house available for $49 a night or $250 a week was “built from wood growing 10 feet away.”
Article from www.ctpost.com/…
Over the years we’ve sent prison inmates any books they ask for. 20 years ago, we were sending out a lot of weight training books. These days, they’re asking for building books.*
Yesterday this package arrived and it was a delight. The spoon is really nice. Handcrafted, not made in China.
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I really like this. The curved roofs, the corrugated siding (never needs paint), the nifty balconies, the alternating symmetries.
Kudos to the good architects, of whom there are unfortunately few these days.
Schedule for Kezurou-Kai USA 10/31/2015
- 9:00-9:15: Karl Bareis: Opening Greeting
- Ongoing: S. Oyama: Plastering Demonstration
- 9:15-10:30: Jay Van Arsdale (Part 1): Basic Joinery Cutout Techniques
- Toby Hargreaves and Mark Van Haltern: Hip Rafter Corner Joinery
- David Bassing: Sharpening and Blade “Back” Conditioning
- 10:30-12:00: Jay Van Arsdale (Part 2): High Angle Planing for Difficult Woods
- Matt Connerton: Chisels or “Nomi-nomics”
- Ryosei Kaneko (Part 1): Roof Layout and Use of Japanese Square
- 12:00-1:00: Lunch Break
- 1:00-2:00: Mike Laine: Planes and Planing
- Ryosei Kaneko (Part 2): Layout Table and Irregular Timbers
- Jay Van Arsdale (Part 3): Chisel and Plane Blade Maintenance
- 2:00-2:20: Karl Bareis: Explanation of Kezurou-Kai USA and 2016 Event
- 2:30-3:45: Planing Competition
- 3:45-4:00: Karl Bareis: Closing Remarks
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$40 entrance fee, $20 students
I built a hut with a tiled roof, underfloor heating and mud and stone walls. This has been my most ambitious primitive project yet and was motivated by the scarcity of permanent roofing materials in this location. Here, palm thatch decays quickly due to the humidity and insects. Having some experience in making pottery I wondered if roof tiles could feasibly be made to get around these problems. Another advantage of a tiled roof is that it is fireproof. A wood-fired, underfloor heating system was installed for cold weather. A substantial wall of mud and stone were built under the finished roof. It should be obvious that this is not a survival shelter but a project used to develop primitive technological skills.
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From Rick Gordon
The first part of the complete reorganization of our “social media” is now up and running: shelterpub.tumblr.com. To start, we’ve posted 10 photos from our building books. This was set up by Sean Hellfritsch. Tumblr will be our photography platform.
We have over 7,000 photos in our 6 building books, and I have something like 15,000 photos (film and digital) dating back to the ’60s, maybe a third of them on building(s).
We are currently working on redesign of my blog, The Shelter Blog (this blog), Twitter and Facebook pages, Shelter’s website, and getting Instagram rolling.
With all this going on, I’m not posting very often these days, but I intend to get rolling with Instagram soon, and coordinate my Instagram photos with this blog.
Stay tuned.
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