Housebuilding - Build Your Own Little House [pack]

Housebuilding - Build Your Own Little House [pack]

Let the design reflect you. Let this be your home. Imagine your ideal dwelling, just as you want it, and then build it. Unless your fantasy has always been a certain style home, let your mind run free, and find the house that is you. Be aware of your abilities, but do not be afraid to extend yourself. The object is not to extend your capabilities beyond yourself, but yourself beyond your capabilities. This is growth, this is moving one step further than where you are. Anything less is complacency or fear. Originality and character can be incorporated in any design, and still have that design remain simple.

Design must be seen as a dynamic, not static, process. It is not something that is drawn up in the beginning and then rigidly held to till the end. It is a process of becoming, a growth process. In the beginning, when you are working on design, do not accept your first draft. It is the one that comes at the beginning of your thought processes, and as you get deeper and deeper into them your design changes, as more and better ways become clear. After much thought and revision, form in your mind and on paper the design you plan to begin with. I say begin with because it is your basic plan, but should always remain open to change. As your construction begins, you will learn things about your house that you had no way of knowing about beforehand. This is one of the great advantages of the designer being the builder as well. The design needs to be flexible enough to incorporate this new information. By moving a window two feet on a wall, you get a better view of a rock formation you had not noticed before; by removing a was, an upstairs storage room becomes a sleeping loft; by moving the stairs, you free more usable space. Ideas will flood you when you actually start to build and spend many hours of the day working and thinking about the house. Any good design should allow for changes to be incorporated. Always be looking to see how the design can be improved upon.

Design your home from the inside out. It is a good idea to spend time in other people's homes to get an idea of how the structure feels to Eve in. When you are designing, imagine your inner living spaces and how you want them to be. Then tie all these parts into an integral whole with a pleasing exterior design. I am not suggesting that you ignore completely the aesthetic value of the exterior design, but only that you remember the primary function of the house is to live in, not to look at. Imagine in your mind each room. What kind of a feeling do you want in the room, where and how high do you want the windows placed, which rooms do you want adjacent to each other, which separate, what type of dividers and entrances between these rooms, what type of relationship and access to the outside, how high do you want the ceilings, etc. Do this for each room and the house as a whole. Once you have designed the entire house, Eve in it awhile in your mind. Work, play, entertain, cook and relax in that house; imagine all its functions. Then in your mind, go outside and see it on your site, and if all this pleases you, you have a good design to start with.

--Building Your Own House

Files:

A Primer for Natural House Building.pdf

Bamboo House Building Manual.pdf

Building Materials.pdf

Building Your Own House.pdf

Earth Sheltered Houses.pdf

Handbook on Good Building Design and Construction.pdf

How to Build a House.pdf

How to Build Country Houses and Out Buildings 1868.pdf

New Houses in Old Buildings.pdf

Residential Building Construction.pdf

Ritual House.pdf

The Green House.pdf

Victorian Houses and their Details.pdf

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