Hello Lloyd,
I’m an occasional reader of your blog and I recently visited a fascinating building that you might be interested in. The actual building definitely doesn’t fit into the tiny homes category but I wonder if the technique could be modified to make a smaller dwelling? Or has it ever been used before on a smaller scale?
The building is located in the UK at https://www.wealddown.co.uk/ and there is a detailed description of the construction technique here https://shltr.net/gridshl
Keep up the good work,
Jeremy
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
Hello Lloyd,
There's a similar building made of cardboard tubes, the Expo Pavillion in Japan by Shigeru Ban
(http://www.shigerubanarchitects.com/SBA_WORKS/SBA_PAPER/SBA_PAPER_10/SBA_paper_10.html)
I've been dreaming of using a similar system (with wood laths pinned at intersections) for a contemporary gypsy wagon, and covering the gridshell with architectural fabric or painted canvas. I think it'd look great!
I was at the museum in 2006 and didn't see anything like that there. really feel I missed out now. Although I did love that museum and some of the small houses that had been moved there.