fablabhouse: sustainable, aesthetically beautiful, interesting

this house, the fab lab house, is probably the most epic house i've seen in a while

like the trendir site says (LOVE) it 'blends sustainable features with creature comforts and extraordinary aesthetics'

the shape is just beautiful to stare at. this photo here shows the roof, which is plastered with solar panels.

the home is atop three legs, improving ventilation naturally!
the home actually produces more energy than it consumes, can i hear a hooray?

and the inside is just 'gorge'
the large windows throw a lot of light into the space, which is a visually lovely wooden frame.

and i'll leave you with this beautiful view from the bedroom.

this house is just an excellent way of showing that environmentally sustainable houses can be beautiful and eye-catching too!

as always, i love trendir

stone house

holiday house in Spain, by Anton Garcia-Abril of Ensamble Studio.

the cave space that the home is in was hollowed out by a cow.
yes a cow.

something to do with concrete and bales of hay and then the cow, who was paid in a year's worth of lunch, pulled it all out? read the rest on trendir.


shower-with-a-built-in-skylight love

natural light is the best!

i'll be back

please please please read that in the arny voice!

i'm not going to post for 2 ish weeks until my semester is over and all my assignments are in and done. and then i'll go crazy, coz i'll be on holidays whilst all my friends are still studying.

and i've got so much planned for the holidays

i really want to go to the movies more.
i hardly ever go. and i like movies. so i think i should go more often. i thought about this yesterday and even dreamt about going to the cinema near my place. (i have really exact dreams, but that's another story)

i'm going on an amazing volunteer trip
where we're helping restore wildlife after flood damage and helping out with rebuilding a school and many more exciting and loving things. for which i'm fundraising right now. (read - chocolate selling)

i'm going to spring clean!
yes, it shall be a hard task, and yes it's winter, but that just means even more rooibos tea with biscuits to motivate me. yum :)

clay making!
i'm going to be making a lot of jewellery to build up my collection.
if you have any ideas, let me know!!

because i live in australia, i'm going to be doing lots of snuggling and staying inside for our *cough* cold winter.

but i'll also be out, i have a few photo projects planned.

i'm going to do lots of reading on designers and architects and sustainable architecture
(see this for what i mean) and lots of bookmarking of wonderful webpages to share.

which brings me to my next point - i'm going to be blogging. a lot.
so please come back and read and comment and let me know how adored i am *cough*



and so i leave you with some jewellery and some sentimental bits.

these pretzels are the ones i baked a long time ago, and then i borrowed a friends lens and took some closer pics of them. my fav are the glazed ones - i would eat that!

it's been just over a year since i started making jewellery (because of this one) and i look back over my first cupcakes that i made. (which i coincidently threw out the other day because i used the wrong clay and they didn't bake properly. they came out warm and soft. ew.)

anyway i digress.
so pretty much, comparing the stuff i used to make with above photos and others i am so proud of how i've improved since then and am looking forward to see how i continue to learn new techniques and think of even more things to make. (that includes ideas from others, so let me know if you have any!)




and now i am off to throw myself into my work and i'll be up for air in 2ish weeks.


love love

glenn murcutt, green architecture and trendir love

man, i could write an entire blog about the houses on trendir and how much i love them.

THIS much.

this particular house makes use of a concept that i have come across recently. it is the idea for architecture and design to 'touch this earth lightly'. it is the motto of aussie architect glenn murcutt.
i first read it in a book called 'green architecture: design for a sustainable future' by brenda and robert vale.

it means the need for respect of a site, that the building will have as little impact on the natural world as possible. i love this concept and it has been rattling around in my empty head for a while now.
murcutt's wikipedia page states that it also means to design works to fit into the aussie landscape features. he pays attention to wind direction, water movement, temperature and light surrounding his sites before designing the building. how awesome does that sound?!

then when i visited trendir again
i saw this house. i think it goes perfectly with the touching the earth lightly phrase, maybe not in the eco-friendly sense (because i don't know the building specs), but the aesthetic sense.
the thing i love about it is that it is so beautiful, yet it blends into the landscape. maybe it's the glass, and seeing through helps with this, or maybe the materials used, but it's just perfect for the location.
the green grass surrounding it reminds me of a lot of things. but the main thing i think is, hopefully they won't get neighbours or it will ruin the whole look of the house. as well as it being extremely easy to spy on the occupents.what about this killer view!
nothingness. serenity. yes please

what about this view, and the perfect symmetry between inside and outside. you can hardly tell. one for eva? i thinkso.

and the view of the mountains as well? oh they are so lucky!