Project updates!

How time flies!

We're at the halfway point in the Living Density Exhibition and forum, and its only getting better!

What else have we been up to?
-we entered the formshift competition
-Rachel attended the Tumbleweed Tiny House workshop with Jay Shafer, and learned an enormous amount about the details of building and designing a tiny home
-Scott attended the Living Density Forum, and learned all about.. well- I'd like to hear it from him:)
-we held a potluck: sparsely attended, but Jay and Mik from the workshop came by. Lots of lively conversation was to be had.
-we're developing an entry for the prefab 2020 competition
-we're continually refining our design, based on input from different people and different experiences

We're at the gallery Monday Wednesday and Friday from 11 am to 2 pm and 4 pm to 6 pm. There will also be an end-party, which is sure to be a blast. That's on the 22nd. We'll see you there!

Jay Shafer and Living Density

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbRvsWuWNUM

I'm getting all pumped up for Jay Shafer's visit to Vancouver, on May 9 and the workshop he'll be holding at Emily Carr University. Designing Tiny Homes is something that's pretty hard to find proper instruction in, in a University context (unless of course you were lucky enough to be in that 3rd year class with Christian!)

Also that weekend is the Living Density forum at Grace Gallery, as part of the Exhibition our project will be participating in. Our group is very excited about all the pros who will be giving talks that day.

Gallery Show Images

These are the three images I have been working on for the gallery show. I sent them off to Pat Chan, but I am sure there is room for feedback and improvement if necessary :)

Facebook Post!

Here are some of the facebook groups we follow!

the tiny home movement- rachel started this group to begin bringing together people involved in all aspects of tiny homes, from building and design, to interested individuals, to parallel interests like green roofing and community gardens.

Architecture for Humanity Vancouver- local chapter of the international organization. terribly sexy. need we say more?

Smaller houses= smaller carbon footprints- a collective of people who love tiny houses and their tiny carbon footprints.

Eco-design + Sustainable Architecture Aficionados- name says it all.

Sustainable Urban Planning Forum- A place to discuss urban planning in an environmental context.

The Living Density Exhibition and Forum

We're very excited to be participating in a gallery show with Architecture for Humanity Vancouver this May.

"Through diverse participations this project is aimed at exploring how the issue of density can be creatively engaged with, and subsequently what kinds of spatial and communicative design and strategies may be employed to do so. It is an exploration on how the three scales of urbanity, currently ascribed to the three cognate disciplines of urban planning/design, architecture and interior/industrial design, are interlinked."
-Pat Chan

We're developing a set of works which will demonstrate our concepts and research, and help further this research over the course of the two week show.

Communities

So I've been trying to find some existing online communities which would be interested in the project, or already have some resource which we may be interested in. One that I've come across is the Tiny House Forum, where there is lots of chatter about the specifics of building tiny homes from people who have done it or are doing it.