Thursday, February 26, 2009

5 Basic Building Materials

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What are your ideas?
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  1. Adrianna SantiagoFebruary 27, 2009 at 9:28 AM

    1. Pine wood - beetle killed (local mill)
    2. Palettes (free source- local business)
    3. Tires (dump)
    4. Ducts (Resource)
    5. Rails and Support Brackets (Resource)

    See Flickr set for visual reference

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  2. jen.bockelmanFebruary 27, 2009 at 5:54 PM

    1. palettes
    2. cement in forms
    3. aluminum siding
    4. plywood
    5. found materials from re-source

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  3. AlyssaFebruary 28, 2009 at 2:06 PM

    1. Pine (from mills or other wood from Resource)
    2. Hay bales (not sure on source)
    3. Bottle walls (from a recycling place?)
    4. Aluminum Siding (resource, home depot?)
    5. Palettes

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  4. Yolanda MaríaFebruary 28, 2009 at 5:04 PM

    1. Pine, beetle blue
    :from local mill
    2. Wheels (wooden & bicycle)
    :local bike shops, dumpsters, ReSource
    3. Wood and Metal Scraps
    ie. from Furniture and from Doors(garage
    doors, gates, house doors)
    :thrift stores, ReSource, dumpster diving,
    from building we inhabit
    4. Local red bricks/stones

    5. "Signs" (found or bought old street signs,
    wooden signs, old building signs or old
    panels with painted signage, etc.)
    :ReSource, Run down businesses, dumpster
    diving, from building we inhabit

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  5. AnnMarch 1, 2009 at 11:44 AM

    1. Beetle Kill Pine or other local, sustainably harvested wood. If beetle kill, then left "natural" so the wood colors show through; otherwise, painted probably.

    2. I like the palette idea but am not sure how best to use them. As a structural element then covered by some kind of "skin?"

    3. Doors, cabinets and drawers from Resource. Drawers and cabinets make excellent nest boxes.

    4. Using things like the aluminum tubes from Resource and then flattening them out to use for roof, siding etc

    5. Trailer and/ or automobile parts. An airstream coop would be peachy. Something like Andrea Zittel's escape pods, but for chickens.

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  6. AmberMarch 1, 2009 at 12:22 PM

    1. wood from the region (tc woods)
    2. Aluminum and scrape metal
    3. Found materials from resource
    4. Palettes (both for structure and for aesthetic design)
    5. Cowboy and Cowgirl accessories

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