[P2P-F] Fwd: [lfowhattheflok] Quelques liens en vrac, Transformaking

Wed Sep 30 15:21:35 CEST 2015

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, p2p-foundation-request at lists.ourproject.org wrote:
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