Tuesday, 8 June 2010

The Plan...

The plan is pretty straight forward; to build a games room/pub in the grounds of my sisters stone cottage using sustainable or recycled materials...sounds simple right??

With my background studying architecture at university (well Part 1 anyway) and a keen interest and enjoyment in building using timber i decided the most sustainable and enjoyable method of construction would be to use a nebraska style load-bearing starwbale system with a timber floor grid sat on a number of rammed earth tyre foundations.

One of the main reasons behind choosing to build this way was an overwhelming sense to get to grips with a construction method that had been drummed into me throughout university by people on a sustainable construction kick who had little or no practical experience in this method of construction telling me certain construction details would/wouldn't work, when honestly speaking i don't think they had the foggiest idea!

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