25k house “The vernacular… In this tradition, the knowledge of how to construct a house is held in common by a community. On this website you can download information and inspiration to help you to design and build your own house much like the one in the...
WEEK 18: The acrylic render finish to all 1st floor areas is complete and the scaffolding has been removed. As you can see, removal of the scaffolding to the rear has allowed the 3,000 litre tank for the rainwater harvesting system to be installed in the rear garden...
The benefit of natural light! Now that the first floor en-suite bathroom is almost complete, the quality of natural light provided by the flat roof window can be clearly seen. Due to the restrictions of the site and to avoid any overlooking of the neighbouring...
The New World Trade Centre, Short Film “Piranha was commissioned by Silverstein Properties to create a short film depicting the completion of The New World Trade Center site and with it the renaissance of downtown New York. Piranha wrote, produced, art...
WEEK 17: The internal finishes are now well underway. All first floor rooms have been painted, skirting & architraves have been fitted and all upstairs doors have also been hung. Downstairs, the kitchen has been first fixed and will be completed over the coming...
Furnishing Unit for Sleep & Play: h2o architects, Paris To divide the children’s room in a Paris flat into two areas, the architects inserted a furnishing unit that forms a partition and incorporates a raised bed and play facilities. The room-height element is...
WEEK 16: On Tuesday of this week the tripple glazed aluclad windows and sliding screens arrived on site. They were installed over the past couple of days. This means that finishes internally can be completed throughout the house. The plaster work (both slabbing and...
WEEK 14: The spray foam insulation has been installed to the underside of all roofs. It has also been used in all internal stud partitions in place of rock wool insulation. Now that the electrical and mechanical first fix is complete and the insulation has been...
WEEK 13: The render base coat is now well under way to the rear of the house. The new soffits and facias have been fitted on the original house, along with the new gutters and down pipes on both the original house and the extension. As noted in our previous post, the...
WEEK 12: From the images you can see the progress of the installation of the 100mm of external polystyrene insulation to the front of the existing house and the rear of the new extension. To the front, application of the off-white render base coat has also commenced...
“The i3 and i8 receive a glitzy media unveiling in Frankfurt before hundreds of journalists flown in from all over the globe. The event was broadcast simultaneously to the rest of the world with the entire BMW Board present for the first time in the...
This amazing kinetic sculpture ‘Metropolis II’ by Chris Burden evokes the energy of the city. Anyone lucky enough to be in LA this autumn must go to LACMA (The Los Angeles County Museum of Art) and check it out. Clink here or on the image to see a short...
WEEK 11: The past couple of days have seen the fibreglass waterproof finish applied to all of the new flat roofs. A paint finish has then also been applied. The paint colour has been choosen to match the finish of the new aluminium glazing externally and the new...
WEEK 10: Installation of the external insulation system has commenced. 100mm of a carbon enhanced grey expanded polystyrene insulation will be bonded to the full extent of the external walls of the original and new sections of the house, effectively wrapping the house...
WEEK 9: All of the blockwork walls of the new extension to the side and rear of the existing house are now complete. Externally, all garden walls to the rear are being rendered with sand and cement. The walls of the original house and extension and being prepared for...
WEEK 8: The construction of the blockwork walls at 1st floor and the two single storey roofs are nearing completion. To the front of the house, the new front door ope has been constructed and the new entrance hall has started to take shape. The existing windows which...
