bling:17 November 2004
bling:…the site is accessed via this path on the road reserve … find an early diagrammatic overview of the site here view panorama follows (from south-east …
bling-bling:site description
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bling:21 July 2004
bling:…a reasonable idea of the issues impacting on the site. The orange line denotes north-south. The site is … Issue is to keep the structure as high on the site as possible, so maximising the winter sun and … green brick house. The contours and the narrowing site conspire with each other to force the design into … down the slope (= expensive). Oh yeah. The entire site is also covered with dense trees and brush. …
bling-bling:Site overview
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bling:27 July 2004
bling:…So, what do we want from our site dimensional survey? Our key concern is accurately … j and k are the only really large ones on the site that we’ll be able to keep. I plan on … builder’s hut / crane drop-off point might site. It’d be nice to get an idea of the height … to council. We’re happy to get parts of the site cleared sooner rather than later if this will …
bling-bling:Site Survey notes
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bling:26 October 2005
bling:…corrugated cardboard kind. It’ll be of the site and it’s environs—at 1:50: damn big for a … (oriented in plan on due North). Since the site is so steep, we’ll end up with a rather … the edges. I’m expecting this is how the site model will end up in places – all bashed …
bling-bling:A corrugated cardboard site model enters the fray.
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bling:16 March 2005
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bling-bling:001 site plan
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bling:22 February 2006
bling:…It is my first ever Textpattern site, and so is not very pretty …
bling-bling:Slowly upgrading this site
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bling:5 December 2004
bling:…aerial photo of Wellington showing site location Empty sections are difficult to find in … over the hill to the east). The fact that the site is steep (up to 45° in places), with limited … for an architect who has been designing web-sites for the past 10 years (the PROFESSION of … a platform in the air, positioned as high on the site as possible to maximise early morning sun, and to … hit problems with the District Plan’s site shadow angles requirements – which were …
bling-bling:DESIGN report (part 1)
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bling:31 October 2004
bling:…max-to with your monitor setup): location plan site plan layout plan axial section lateral sections I … height limits at the southern end of the site. Back at the drawing board The new design is …
bling-bling:The design that almost was…
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bling:8 December 2004
bling:…about the gizUlor. Try entering the term into the site’s search interface (from the home-page) if …
bling-bling:the gizUlor
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bling:1 April 2005
bling:…on the other side of town (not overlooking the site anymore, and nowhere as nice a view), but: brand …
bling-bling:we're moving again
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bling:26 June 2007
bling:…not a realistic option for our virgin Raroa Road site. Tired of providing for our landlords’ … in a big way (we bought it back in May 06): large site (also very steep) – more than enough space …
bling-bling:and then we threw a spanner in the works (or how we came to acquire the Love Shack)…
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bling:21 April 2006
bling:…I’ve only tested it on a local clone of the site: its mean’t to be identical, but with …
bling-bling:A spiffy new look
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bling:21 July 2004
bling:…South East) View from northern garden sans site North elevation Cross-section Long-section … AND foundation-support across the grain of the site, all without having to go through a mother of a …
bling-bling:A candidate arrives.
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bling:14 October 2004
bling:…to keep the rain out etc. Bring all components to site in flat-pack form and assemble them under cover. …
bling-bling:Another way of swinging this
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bling:10 August 2004
bling:…away, which caused me to have another look at the site envelope. Diagram showing allowable site building … good views and more sun from the top of the site, and bringing the front door down the slope to …
bling-bling:…and things kind of went from there…
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bling:20 September 2004
bling:…a 40° slope ) planning constraints (prescribed site shadow angles define a narrow, “steeply … roofed” corridor of space through the site). economy: the strictly modular all-plywood … and efficiency through being prefabbed offsite. A considerate aspect of this approach is that we … shows the maximum number that you can fit on the site in a single trajectory – bringing a square … slamming open or shut in the wind. An accurate site survey shows that we can lift the structure up …
bling-bling:progress report: another design revision runs its course
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bling:27 November 2004
bling:…bathroom and lower living platforms, enjoy the site’s best views (the Rimutaka ranges on the …
bling-bling:CONCEPT: program
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bling:1 January 2005
bling:…We don’t exactly love ‘em, but the site kind-of demands them. Our options: …
bling-bling:On steps and stairs
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bling:29 November 2004
bling:…working on the bits that constitute this site… please be patient and reload the page). …
bling-bling:A sneak peek at my immediate to-do list
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bling:8 September 2004
bling:
bling-bling:…! A productive afternoon.
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bling:15 March 2005
bling:…it is – great views of Wellington and our site notwithstanding) we get to live in a great place …
bling-bling:The new regime
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bling:24 August 2004
bling:…proved to be elusive: no-one is ever home. I revisited the site envelope thing again, which resulted in …
bling-bling:Exoskeleton out, endoskeleton in
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bling:4 August 2004
bling:…guided into place is 5min The more organised your site / lift area is, the cheaper it is. High-precision …
bling-bling:Looking into the floor deck component, and a chat about helicopters.
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bling:26 July 2004
bling:…reasonable option under the circumstances: steep site, heavily overgrown (and we’d like to keep … with broad expertise… putting it all together on site, definitely using a set up with broad expertise! … recommended by reliable sources etc) visited a week ago and discussed the project (we looked …
bling-bling:Thinking aloud
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bling:25 June 2005
bling:…thin tube up through the available space between site and shadow planes. I really like this one, but … and manages to get you from the bottom of the site to the from door with the minimum of fuss flavour … structure pretty much where-ever we like on the site. If we are prepared to allow for a variety of … building right into the top nether regions of the site, where the view is even better, and early-morning …
bling-bling:Where we're at
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