From Dee Williams today (what a nice video!):
“Hey, I hope you are doing well and enjoying this roll toward summer!
Hopefully, I’ll see you at the tiny house fair in Vermont… and if not, sometime soon.
Last summer I sent out an email to try to encourage folks to contribute to Kim Langston’s rebuild of her little house. As you might remember, her house was destroyed in a fire last year. The cool thing is that this summer, she’s going to rebuild! This is it!…”
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tiny-house-big-heart
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:
A few small houses, and some other interesting links
Small Home
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ducttapemarketing/7469767134/
Meditation Temple – nicely done………………………….
http://www.designbuzz.com/meditation-temple-purifies-both-your-mind-and-environment/
Five Man Made Islands…interesting
http://www.designbuzz.com/five-amazing-manmade-islands-to-mesmerize-you/
Imagine How Many Tiny Homes Could be Built Instead
http://www.designbuzz.com/5-most-expensive-ideas-for-building-designs-in-usa/
Top Two Look Like Someone Inhaled a Little too much of something
http://www.designbuzz.com/most-unusual-structures-around-the-world-2/
Now That’s a Classroom….
http://www.designbuzz.com/spaceplates-greenhouse-functions-as-classroom-growing-space/
Floating Office
http://www.designbuzz.com/floating-office-sea-hire-international-workers-visas/
Tiny Artist’s Studio On Shore
http://www.designbuzz.com/squish-studio-real-artists-haven-along-rugged-canadian-shore/
Off Grid
http://www.designbuzz.com/micromodulo-modular-dome-house-escape-grid-style/
Inside Pics of Above — Not Too Shabby
http://www.behance.net/gallery/micromodulo/3771112
Funnel Wall Rains Music
http://www.designbuzz.com/funnel-wall-rains-music-literally/
now's here some interesting, especially using Horse Manure to Plaster a house…gotta wonder about that…
Small Cabin Made from Salvage
And
Outside Plastered with Earthen Plaster Made from
Clay – Sand – Horse Manure…
Now Never have heard of that Last Ingredient
http://circleacres.blogspot.ca/2011/09/plastering-cabin.html
part of the agrarian community of Silk Hope, NC, just outside of Siler City. – nvr heard of these folk either
http://inhabitat.com/ethan-hayes-chutes-quirky-wooden-shacks-are-a-delightful-hodgepodge-of-found-materials/
Ethan Hayes-Chute's Quirky Wooden Shacks
Homes with Soul
http://stlhomeswithsoul.com/tag/black-jack/
Well, gosh darn, had no idea what all dung was apparently used for.
Goodness…. Was looking for info on horse dung plaster, and look see here…
For sure this would not have occurred to me..
http://books.google.ca/books?id=KXcrwh4gvyYC&pg=PA326&lpg=PA326&dq=%22Horse+dung%22+plaster&source=bl&ots=TDclF9aq4A&sig=p1og9phKHTqq5OY3mintIZ_uFuA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=7fDTUdP-MKfoiwL95oDIDQ&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Horse%20dung%22%20plaster&f=false
1. Lime-ash floor – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lime-ash_floor
o Cached
In areas where gypsum was common they were known as plaster floors. … third well sifted coal ashes and one third loamy clay and horse dung from grasses'".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lime-ash_floor
http://za.linkedin.com/pub/justin-anschutz/29/a00/178
Organic breathable wall plasters.
Clay, lime and horse dung floors and wall plasters.
http://sosna.sk/english/
Most ecological material was local horse manure that was used to smooth a special plaster
And more here on dung in various plasters
http://www.greenhomebuilding.com/QandA/materials/plaster.htm
and there seemed to be a whole lot more..
i am amazed what i have learned/read, since starting your blog. for sure did not ever imagine this one.
Hey Lloyd,maybe you know about this, but thought you might like to see one more blogger who enjoys your work
http://honeyishrunkthehouse.blogspot.ca/2013/03/tiny-homes-by-lloyd-kahn.html
came across this, interesting small houses/ interesting architectural school..likely you already know about it..
http://www.taliesin.edu/
check out that video at the bottom..
also
check on google images
Taliesin Student Shelters
some nice "small homes"