I have a nice little project: im building a pool shed out of mostly traditional materials--wood studs, etc. Trying to push the limits a little bit, though.
I was wondering if anybody knows of any similar small scale projects that you have come across that are interesting/inspiring? --(as far as building methods/techniques more so than actual design, although they usually go hand in hand)
oh yeah, and I will be building it myself with the limited tools i have...so thats why I am looking more at the construction aspect rather than a outlandish or technically-improbable design
BUILDING Circular Brick Garden Shed and Workshop, Oslo, Norway
ARCHITECT Carl-Viggo Holmebakk
Points of Interest
A wooden framework is suspended inside a brick cylinder with the two laminated timber beams supporting the interior framework aswell as serving as primary beams for the transparent fibreglass roof.
Note the detailing of the timber components in this project, in particular those of the main door and the junctions between the timber components of the internally suspended framework.
All wood is Norwegian Pine treated with a mixture of tar, linseed oil and turpentine.
Reference journal: Architecture and Urbanism  A+U 97:12
Read Witold Rybcznski's "The Most Beautiful House in the World", a paean to his shed/work space.
Then there's "A Place of My Own : The Education of an Amateur Builder" by Michael Pollan, in which he builds a little 'writing room' in the woods.
After these guys, you'll feel a whole lot better when this small project takes a whole lot longer than you intended.
Finally (and more seriously) there was a hot little building with a Cor-Ten arc set in front of it by Scott Williams/SAWA Rchitects. If you run a Google search you'll come up with a little blurb in ArchRecord2, but it's been published somewhere else where you can see more of the building behind the steel.
sorry for my previously abusive post - well actually I am not all that sorry Per.
Serious, hopefully more helpful answer, you could try looking in a book called ECO by elizabeth wilhide. I really like it, it has a lot of buildings made from some fairly 'basic' materials that are really simple and really beautiful.
I have found it inspirational and maybe you will with the design and build of your shed.
building a shed...
I have a nice little project: im building a pool shed out of mostly traditional materials--wood studs, etc. Trying to push the limits a little bit, though.
I was wondering if anybody knows of any similar small scale projects that you have come across that are interesting/inspiring? --(as far as building methods/techniques more so than actual design, although they usually go hand in hand)
thanks
oh yeah, and I will be building it myself with the limited tools i have...so thats why I am looking more at the construction aspect rather than a outlandish or technically-improbable design
BUILDING Circular Brick Garden Shed and Workshop, Oslo, Norway
ARCHITECT Carl-Viggo Holmebakk
Points of Interest
A wooden framework is suspended inside a brick cylinder with the two laminated timber beams supporting the interior framework aswell as serving as primary beams for the transparent fibreglass roof.
Note the detailing of the timber components in this project, in particular those of the main door and the junctions between the timber components of the internally suspended framework.
All wood is Norwegian Pine treated with a mixture of tar, linseed oil and turpentine.
Reference journal: Architecture and Urbanism  A+U 97:12
http://www.strath.ac.uk/Departments/Architecture/webdes/hanlon_web/circular2.JPG
http://www.strath.ac.uk/Departments/Architecture/webdes/hanlon_web/circdet.jpg
is a cute little guide to very small projects, some realized, some not.
Hi
Try look in the Fotos folders of this group :
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pavilions/
oh f/// off with that shite already.
haaaaaahaaaaaa
wow... talk about a shameless plug... too damn funny...
thanx per.. Hahaha. and someone keeps trying to resurrect "hi all you fancy graphics lovers"... it keeps creeping back up
Try
"Ideas for Great Backyard Cottages"
Sunset Publishing
Read Witold Rybcznski's "The Most Beautiful House in the World", a paean to his shed/work space.
Then there's "A Place of My Own : The Education of an Amateur Builder" by Michael Pollan, in which he builds a little 'writing room' in the woods.
After these guys, you'll feel a whole lot better when this small project takes a whole lot longer than you intended.
Finally (and more seriously) there was a hot little building with a Cor-Ten arc set in front of it by Scott Williams/SAWA Rchitects. If you run a Google search you'll come up with a little blurb in ArchRecord2, but it's been published somewhere else where you can see more of the building behind the steel.
try coming up with your own ideas
hehe archit, you are a true modernist. I steal ideas and make them my own... im a re-mix artist.. lol
jk
building TECHNIQUES, more than design... i already have an idea... but still developing
ill post pictures when im done~
sorry for my previously abusive post - well actually I am not all that sorry Per.
Serious, hopefully more helpful answer, you could try looking in a book called ECO by elizabeth wilhide. I really like it, it has a lot of buildings made from some fairly 'basic' materials that are really simple and really beautiful.
I have found it inspirational and maybe you will with the design and build of your shed.
let us know how it goes.
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