To be incompleted.

pipe footing mockup

more slotted holes are to be cut, as three lengths of rebar triangulate the footing and counter uplift.

lashed decking (1 layer) & woven tree skins

Neo-Homesteading: Tilth and Availablism in Small Architecture and Film

This in-progress-thesis holds stakes in returning knowledge to the hands through the process of making by looking at architecture and film to reciprocally inform the other's design-build process.

The nature of making things by hand has become more rare given the nature of living in the city as work becomes production-specialized. Filmmaking in its dawn was design-build belonging to the inventor, while the business of building home belonged to the steader.

This design for a three-weather shelter is not a pitting against the city, rather a rural situation in Bridgeville, California, so as to cull and institute site-available materials (as much as possible), to serve as a dwelling for an artist-in-residency at StoneLake Farm.

What I miss is the time it takes to look fore closely.

stereo knot animation

Site Section: fantasy hard at work

Beehive within a Temple (part II / II)

Beehive within a Temple (part I / II)

Greetings from "Intern Camp"

Stonelake Farm site map

NeedlesSapplingsConesChilies

The thatching of jig-bent rounds: Patrick Dougherty's twisted sapplings and traditional Japanese packaging by Hideyuki Oka.

Residency Advert

(Come to my imaginary show.)

In-bending Sketches

sheathing fastened to framing arches

(more of which are to come)

Green Wood Hedgehog

Wood-Preservative Recipe

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup boiled linseed oil
1 ounce of paraffin (carnauba or wood rosin wax)
enough solvent (distilled pine tar, mineral spirits or citrus thinner) at room temperature to make the total volume of the mix one full gallon.

Directions:
Melt the paraffin over water in a double boiler. Do not heat over a direct flame. Away from the heat source, stir the solvent vigorously, and then slowly stir in the melted paraffin. Add the linseed oil and continue to stir thoroughly. Apply by dipping the untreated lumber in the mixture for three minutes or by brushing a heavy application across the wood's grain and on the cut ends of the lumber. The wood can be painted when it's thoroughly dry. (USDA developed.)

AxSawFallRope (diagrams for the film)

Film shorts are simultaneously being produced during the design process as ways to investigate pragmatic architectural questions and so as to sister another design-build medium that challenges what it may mean to make something "independently" as it relates to "technology".

Program for a 3-Weather Shelter