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Progress at Scotland's Housing Expo, Inverness, August 2010
/ Jun 2, 2010Our pair of entirely timber houses are taking shape on the edge of Inverness. The two L shaped house forms, wrapped in cedar shingles, interlock to form an entrance courtyard. The skewed roof ridges continue the twisting and pivoting effect of the composition and the ceilings within the houses themselves rise and fall to create a dynamic spatial arrangement.
The choice of construction is a development of timber frame that uses waste woodfibre boards on the outside of the framing to greatly improve heat retention through the walls and roof. A service void on the inside face of the walls greatly reduces the heat lost through unnecessary penetrations for services. Overall, the houses demonstrate how energy efficiency can be achieved by simply adapting a technique such as timber frame used extensively in Scotland without the need for importing building systems from abroad.
High energy efficiency benchmarks were set by OCA at the outset to ensure these elements acheive considerably improved heat loss values compared to Building Standards at the time of application.
Walls +25%, Floor +14%, Roof +42%, Windows +22%
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Urbs Pictus : Panorama & Minature.
/ May 14, 2010The exhibition presents a series of panoramic urban portraits taken by Alexandra Heese between 2003 - 2009 from Buenos Aires, Zurich, Edinburgh, Shanghai and New York, alongside a select sequence of minature tableaux produced by Cary Siress between 1990 - 2009 that document work conducted in universites located in the respective cities from the panorama series. Mon - Fri 9.00 to 17.30 through to 23rd July
more info . . .http://schopness.wordpress.com/panorama_and_minature/