18 solar panels charge a Leaf battery bank that powers the electric motor. When battery runs low, a diesel generator kicks in to power the motor and extend the range.
It has a 1937 Willy’s front end and custom-made doors and grill.
Will be featured in our next book, Rolling Homes.
It’s for sale: SunRay@SunRay Kelley.com.
If you know of any unique road rigs, contact me at: lloyd@shelterpub.com
Another page from Everybody’s Enquire Within, published in mid-30s
Photos from yogan carpenter of his friend Robin’s workshop in SW France, with a zome roof. Again, yogan has photographed a building shown in Home Work (page 49) but gotten better shots. This is really a nice idea: using a dome as roof on vertical walls. It’s in a section in the book on countercultural builders in France. (A friend of ours who lives in Amsterdam says that France is the California of Europe.)
I was photographing Jack Williams’ house in Point Arena, Calif. in 2000, and he said, “There’s someone up here who wants to meet you.”
We drove about 5 miles out of town, down into a riverfront valley, and I saw this beautiful little building. The two doors were open, and this guy, who I’d never seen before came out with an old tattered copy of Shelter, and he told me to crouch down in the doorway and look at the building’s framing. See this? He said? I built it from this painting (of a Mandan earth lodge) in Shelter.
Wow I thought, If Shelter inspired something like this, it’s time to do a sequel.
So Home Work, published in 2004 was born, and it featured lots of buildings inspired by Shelter.
BTW, the other day Louie said that back in the day, the saying was: “Turn on, tune in, drop out, and read Shelter.”
Note: With a 30% discount for 2 or more books, you can now get both Shelter and Home Work for $41 with free shipping: www.shelterpub.com
This incredible video is from Instagram account of _millionrise_ (note underlines at either end of name). Can’t find any explanation of who or where, and I suggest turning off the music, but this is wonderful. Check out other posts at _millionrise_.
I recently got an Instagram post from Lisa Mudie at Mill Valley Yurts in Cornwall, U.K, along with some photos. (They rent yurts and cabins in a rural setting.) I asked her to email me, and she wrote:
“Thirteen years ago we started a rustic campsite in our beautiful Cornish Valley a few miles from the rugged Atlantic coast which has evolved over the years into a crazy mix of hobbit huts, wooden yurts, cabins, and gypsy vardos. All handmade by us using reclaimed materials and all Cornish timber. Our latest purchase is a mobile sawmill and 26 tonnes of local oak … now we can really start building!”
Surfer’s shack built by Bruno Atkey on the “Wild Coast,” about 40 miles by north of Tofino (reachable only by sea–no roads), on the west side of Vancouver Island. We went in Bruno’s 17-foot aluminum fishing boat, with 50 HP rope-pull-starter outboard motor), stayed there a couple of nights, fished, surfed, drank whiskey, and took a driftwood-fired sauna when I was shooting photos for Builders of the Pacific Coast. Bruno was one of the first surfers on Vancouver Island.
This is a four-story coffee drying plant built in the late 1800s on the banks of the Guacaica River in Caldas, Colombia. The entire building is framed with bamboo, structurally remarkable for the size of the building and the heavy tile roof. From the book Tropical Bamboo by Marcello Villegas; One of the best books ever on bamboo. All the buildings, furniture, and other bamboo objects in the book are in Colombia.
The Heddal stave church in Norway, is 25 meters long, 17 meters wide, and its 3 turrets are 29 meters tall. Built in the 13th century, reconstructed in 1849, then again in 1950. “An architectural masterpiece of the Middle Ages.”
Roger Warren just sent this, along with this description of his studio on an island in British Columbia:
Lloyd… The studio was put together from scrounged everything, total investment under $300 that was mostly for floor ply. Size is 8 × 12.
Something you have never mentioned in any of your books (I have them all): Any building should be designed around multiples of 4. This fits in with standard construction lumber; i.e.: If you build 10 × 10, you (have to) cut off 2 ft. of floor ply.
I also designed and built the house, shown in my website.
www.rogeronsaltspring.com/gallery-iii
I also have the same tools you do.
Cheers Lloyd,
–Roger
