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CONSTRUCTION KNOWLEDGE BLOG

April 28, 2009

Building a Narrow House
Filed under: Cool Projects — Tags: — nedpelger

Named “A House in Tokyo” this funky little dwelling had a limited width footprint. The design firm Atelier Tekuto combined beautiful lines and practical materials to create this cool little house.

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The elegance gets stripped away a bit with the daylight view, though it’s still wonderful design.

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The structure shown in the photos below adds to the ethereal feeling.

images credit: Atelier Tekuto

images credit: Atelier Tekuto

The next time you get asked to do some task that seems impossible, think of how the architect must have initially responded when challenged to design a house on this spit of ground. Try to not lead with “That will never work” and instead consider how you might draw from your  creativity. Most of us say we aren’t creative, but everyone has creativity. You just have to use it and develop it.

CONSTRUCTION KNOWLEDGE BLOG

January 23, 2009

Creative Problem Solving
Filed under: Ned Weirdness — Tags: — nedpelger

Construction Supervisors tend to excel at creative problem solving. Many of us got into this business because we liked figuring out how to build things. Below are a few creative solutions to problems that made me smile. I found these at Dark Roasted Blend. The small house/carport below was built in Japan, where space matters.

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I guess space matters as well to the family cat. Though I doubt she ever showed any gratitude for this nice structure. You know how cats are.

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Finally, this kid built a kick-ass mobile sound system. I think he could have a bright future ahead…or at least a loud one.

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Hope you have a nice week-end. I’m going to be working on my ConstructionKnowledge instructional videos that I post on YouTube. My friend John Matarazzi told me I look like a communist in the videos, so I’m going to try to improve the production quality.