“The ‘Makoko Floating School,’ a triangular form in section constructed with a parallel series
of timber A-frames on a platform supported by emptied blue barrels. The 3-story structure contains classrooms on the middle level
in enclosed volumes flanked by public green space and playground below, and an additional open-air rooftop classroom above.
Rooftop PV cells on the roof collect solar energy, and coupled with water catchment systems, make the dynamic educational facility partially self sustainable.
Slender wooden slats create a shading device along the outer envelope along with well-ventilated spaces to maintain a comfortable interior environment.…”
By NSE Architects
From Designboom here.
Summer fog has finally taken over. Heading into San Francisco on Golden Gate Bridge one morning last week. Going under south tower.
Hey I think I like this. Short and snappy. Quicker, easier more frequent. It’s hard to break the essay habit.
I’ve got about as many digital tools as I need for a good while.
-11″ MacAir
-iPhone 5 (with Seri)
-Sony Cybershot DSC-RX100 pocket camera
-Mac Mini hooked up to TV(although I haven’t really started using it yet)
-GOgroove FlexSmart X2 Wireless In-Car Bluetooth
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Stopped at Tomales Bay Oyster Company Tuesday and picked up a dozen small oysters from Gina Warren, shown here. I gave her a mini Tiny Homes book. She looked at it in delight, laughed and, like a lot of young people, said she’d been thinking about tiny homes.
“Nice hair.”
“I curl it myself.”
Rolling down the road on this trip, I realized that I’ve been putting up less personal posts (my own discoveries wandering through the world) lately and more 3rd-party stuff.
Each morning I go out and check email and blog comments first thing, then post what’s of interest — a lot of tiny homes, gardening stuff. Then I don’t get around to posting my own photos and reports — both of which there are many — and having you readers ride shotgun with me. After all, I Am A Camera.)
I’ve got a logjam backup of content — so I’ve decided to try posting something of my own each day (pic and/or text). I’ll start by calling it The Daily Flash (may be able to give it better title). I’m thinking more shorter posts interspersed with the same type daily 3rd-party posts I’ve been doing lately. Hey, aren’t attention spans shorter all the time? (Just occurs to me this is slightly analogous to current discoveries of the value of shorter, more frequent exercise.)
A course correction in this seeming compulsion I have to communicate. Here we go.
I took off Tuesday in my car (Honda Fit, such a pleasure to drive) heading north along the coast. Overcast day, the colors best then (blue-sky sunny days wash out the color). Visual treat as i headed along the country roads, subtle colors, summer gold of the hills, green patches where there’s a bit of moisture; bales of hay, sheep grazing.
Gotta admit, I like driving (Calif. boy, started at age 14). With Sirius radio. Away from office and phones, mind can wander.
Turned on Outlaw Country for truckdrivin music — bingo! The Meat Purveyors singing “Burr Under My Saddle,” all the reasons she’s (they’re) dumping this guy… next song, “Zip-i-dee-doo-dah,” — “wonderful feeling, wonderful day.” Upbeat. The Coasters doing fabulous version of “Zing Went the
Strings of My Heart.”
Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart by The Coasters on Grooveshark This all put me in my best polyanna mode. Glass half full. Acc-en-chu-ate the positive. Can’t help it, optimism’s part of my m.o.
There must have been 100 boats out along the coast. The salmon are back in a big way. They’re fat and large. Best in a dozen years. Guys catching them out of kayaks. Good news in this bad-news-filled world. The ocean here is healthy.
A round house in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. (Stephen Horncastle, Wikimedia Commons)
Click here.
“When I posted ‘7 no-cost ways to grow more food from your veggie garden,’ one commenter argued that mulching was not a good strategy—suggesting that gardeners should plant polycultures instead, following the principles of permaculture.
While I’d dispute the idea that there is one “right” way of gardening, or that mulching and polycultures, or mulching and permaculture for that matter, are mutually exclusive, I do agree on one matter. Understanding permaculture design—which can loosely be described as a design discipline informed by principles observed in nature—can definitely make you a better gardener…”
From TreeHugger here.
Sent us by Mike W
“The ‘Makoko Floating School,’ a triangular form in section constructed with a parallel series
