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| Apprentices (student architects) at Taleisin build their own sleeping shelters. |
They range widely in size, comfort, suitability to the desert climate, and degree of whimsy. |
Almost all are visually striking, to say the least. |
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| Original adobe shelter was sweltering in the desert sun, so a later student added a shade fly. |
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A case study: Just completed last year, many months over schedule (due to too much fine detail work). |
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Another shelter. |
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| This one is being reworked to have a fabric outer wall on a curved "shower-curtain" rod, to block night winds. |
A high-end shelter |
The materials budget for a shelter is only $1000, but the labor budget can included unlimited hours of wheedling and begging time. |
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| This shelter arranged for a developer building in the area to donate the whole roofing system... |
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The view from inside, looking across the hammock... |
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| A very sculptural shelter... |
.. and built right across a wash. |
... with an extreme-cantilever front porch. |
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More high concept than practical,the remains of some shelters sit in the desert as cautionary tales to future generations of students. |
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| A subtle design: two parallel stone piers form a backbone, with a skylight roof between them. |
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A large stone and wood shelter |
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A simple, practical stone and wood shelter, with solar PV power. |
A very wild design, by someone who put a lot of time on details and interesting features. |
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A crooked doorway, but in the FLW low-entry, opens to surprising spaces. |
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Many/most of the shelters have fireplaces for cold desert nights. |
One wall pivots open for ventilation and an after-hours drafting table! |
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| PV panels tucked away out back. |
Can't resist building over washes! |
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| Another example of high-style over common-sense: build a glass-block shelter in the desert and it turns out to be an overn... |
Pretty building, though... |
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| One of the most formal and very elegant shelters. |
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| Totally clever design uses steel strips to convey heat out of the firebox and into the room, closer to the bed... |
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| And in the back yard, a research project: combination solar power and sleeping unit for rapid deployment to disaster areas. |
A shelter built from some of this and some of that, though cozy. |
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| One last shelter... |
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