This sounds like it would have been a lot of fun. I wonder if there was any mention of, or visits to, the T House villages in Ubud Bali Indonesia. ( http://www.balithouse.com/ ) For some years there was a company in California called Tony's T-Houses founded by designer Tony Gwilliam that made Asian-style prefab back yard pavilions of a uniquely simple practical design. They were popular enough that Tony was able to go on to pursuing applying this minimalist approach to full scale homes and he moved to Bali to develop the Bali-T House; a prefab house kit based on nail-less ironwood construction and unique Indonesian craftsmanship. It helped inspire a bit of a craze in export Indonesian kit housing, though most of that was focused on the more elaborately carved traditional architecture popular for guest houses and resort cottages. I was long very interest in these Bali-T houses because of the powerful modular system Tony employed and the non-toxic nature of the ironwood, which is so dense it simply can't be adulterated by paint and other potentially toxic finishes and treatments. But, unfortunately they never really caught on as kit homes in the western world because they were too well adapted to the mild Indonesian climate and couldn't work without additional shelter in northern climates. So, eventually, Tony's company gave up on selling the kits to focus on crafting vacation villages using them in Ubud. But there's still great potential in the building system for these clever and elegant little houses, particularly today with the rise of the Tiny House movement. On 9/30/15 2:12 AM, [email protected] wrote:
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