Self Build Housing

Author : Michaela Benson,Iqbal Hamiduddin
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781911576884

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Self-Build Homes by Michaela Benson,Iqbal Hamiduddin Pdf

Self-Build Homes connects the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on self-build with commentary from leading international figures in the self-build and wider housing sector. Through their focus on community, dwelling, home and identity, the chapters explore the various meanings of self-build housing, encouraging new directions for discussions about self-building and calling for the recognition of the social dimensions of this process, from consideration of the structures, policies and practices that shape it, through to the lived experience of individuals and households.Divided into four parts – Discourse, Rationale, Meaning; Values, Lifestyles, Imaginaries; Community and Identity; and Perspectives from Practice – the volume comes at a time of renewed focus from policy managers and practitioners, as well as prospective builders themselves, on self-build as a means for producing homes that are more stylised, affordable and appropriate for the specific needs of households. It responds to recent advances in housing and planning policy, while also bringing this into conversation with interdisciplinary perspectives from across the social sciences on housing, home and homemaking. In this way, the book seeks to update understandings of self-build and to account for housing as a distinctly social process.

Author : Julian Owen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000481617

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Self-build by Julian Owen Pdf

If you’ve ever dreamt of designing and building your own home, this book is for you. Becoming a ‘self-builder’ doesn’t necessarily mean learning to build a house physically from scratch. Anyone can be a self-builder – you can do so without ever having to lay a brick yourself. Self-built homes can also be more individual, better designed and more economical than buying from a developer. This book is designed for homeowners and self-builders, whether aspiring or on the brink of starting a project. It provides a jargon-free, step-by-step guide to the process of designing and building your own home, distilling all of the practical information needed to make your dream house a reality. Carefully crafted to offer friendly, easy-to-understand practical guidance and packed with watch points, hints and tips, it also highlights the potential pitfalls and suggests ways of avoiding them. Including indications of costs and timescales, Self-build demystifies the process of budgeting, finding a site, gaining planning permission, designing your home and all of the surrounding issues to do with sustainability, planning, regulations, procurement and the use of building contracts. Beautifully illustrated with over 230-colour photos, diagrams and plans, it provides all the inspiration and ideas you need to bring your own project to life. Featured houses include: Amphibious House by Baca Architects Corten Courtyard House by Barefoot Architects Haringey Brick House by Satish Jassal Architects Shawm House by Mawson Kerr Architects Sussex House by Wilkinson King Architects The Pocket House by Tikari Works Architects.

Author : Jon Broome
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-06
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781907448386

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The Green Self-build Book by Jon Broome Pdf

Build your home the 'green' way to reduce running costs, be more self-sufficient and create a more comfortable home. Whether you want a turf roof, solar-powered hot water, or a super-insulated house, this book demonstrates that green is the way forward. Written by award-winning architect Jon Broome, The Green Self-Build Book provides an accessible overview of the different methods of sustainable and eco-friendly construction techniques. Covering the essential elements of design and the self-build process, this practical book includes information on sustainable foundations, floor finishes and insulation. Jon also shares insights on how to build for comfort and health. Inspiring case studies of green building projects using earth, straw, steel and timber are also included. Packed with attractive colour photos throughout, this is an essential resource for anyone who is planning a self-build project or involved in housing.

Author : Alice Grahame,John McKean
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1848223897

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Walter Segal by Alice Grahame,John McKean Pdf

This is a study of the architect Walter Segal (1907-1985): his intellectual biography (background, influences, thoughts, writings), his unique approach to architectural practice (and his built work) and his enduring impact on architecture and attitudes to housing across the world. It firstly sets out his formative years in continental Europe. Segal's father was an eminent modern painter, close to leading architects and artists and he grew up in a fascinating milieu, at the centre of the European avant-garde. With the rise of Hitler, this Jewish family fled, finally settling in England prior to the Second World War. The second section focuses on Walter Segal's central theme of popular housing, his unique and independent form of professional practice, how he managed to spread his ideas through writing and teaching, and how his architecture developed towards the timber-frame system known world-wide today as 'the Segal system, ' which could be used by people to build their own houses. The final section of the book explores the legacy offered by Segal to younger generations; how his work and example, half a century after his timber 'system' was developed, leads to the possibility of making, and then living within, communities whose places are constructed with a flexible, easily assembled, planet-friendly timberframe building system today and tomorrow.

Author : Jon Broome
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-06
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781907448393

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The Green Self-build Book by Jon Broome Pdf

Build your home the 'green' way to reduce running costs, be more self-sufficient and create a more comfortable home. Whether you want a turf roof, solar-powered hot water, or a super-insulated house, this book demonstrates that green is the way forward. Written by award-winning architect Jon Broome, The Green Self-Build Book provides an accessible overview of the different methods of sustainable and eco-friendly construction techniques. Covering the essential elements of design and the self-build process, this practical book includes information on sustainable foundations, floor finishes and insulation. Jon also shares insights on how to build for comfort and health. Inspiring case studies of green building projects using earth, straw, steel and timber are also included. Packed with attractive colour photos throughout, this is an essential resource for anyone who is planning a self-build project or involved in housing.

Author : James Barlow,Robert Jackson,J. L. Meikle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : House construction
ISBN : 1842630393

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Homes to DIY for by James Barlow,Robert Jackson,J. L. Meikle Pdf

Self-promoted housing involves individual households taking responsibility for producing their own house rather than buying one from a speculative housebuilder. The UK is unusual because speculative house-building dominates the supply of new, especially private, housing. Despite this, the number of houses developed by individuals has doubled since the late 1980s and the sector now accounts for roughly 17 percent of all non-social housing completions. There is also a significant industry involved in self-promoted housing, consisting of suppliers of prefabricated homes, designers, land search specialists, financial consultants and builders.

Author : Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation,Avi Friedman
Publisher : Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Community development
ISBN : 0660178842

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Comprehensive Analysis of Self-build Housing Experiences by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation,Avi Friedman Pdf

Author : Iqbal Hamiduddin,Michaela Benson
Publisher : Saint Philip Street Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013288858

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Self-Build Homes by Iqbal Hamiduddin,Michaela Benson Pdf

Self-Build Homes connects the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on self-build with commentary from leading international figures in the self-build and wider housing sector. Through their focus on community, dwelling, home and identity, the chapters explore the various meanings of self-build housing, encouraging new directions for discussions about self-building and calling for the recognition of the social dimensions of this process, from consideration of the structures, policies and practices that shape it, through to the lived experience of individuals and households. Divided into four parts - Discourse, Rationale, Meaning; Values, Lifestyles, Imaginaries; Community and Identity; and Perspectives from Practice - the volume comes at a time of renewed focus from policy managers and practitioners, as well as prospective builders themselves, on self-build as a means for producing homes that are more stylised, affordable and appropriate for the specific needs of households. It responds to recent advances in housing and planning policy, while also bringing this into conversation with interdisciplinary perspectives from across the social sciences on housing, home and homemaking. In this way, the book seeks to update understandings of self-build and to account for housing as a distinctly social process. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : Martin Field
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Community development
ISBN : 1447344421

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Creating Community-Led and Self-Build Homes by Martin Field Pdf

Examines 'self-build housing' and 'community-led housing', discussing the commonalities and distinctions between these in practice, and what could be learned from other initiatives across Europe.

Author : Michaela Benson,Iqbal Hamiduddin
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781911576891

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Self-Build Homes by Michaela Benson,Iqbal Hamiduddin Pdf

Self-Build Homes connects the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on self-build with commentary from leading international figures in the self-build and wider housing sector. Through their focus on community, dwelling, home and identity, the chapters explore the various meanings of self-build housing, encouraging new directions for discussions about self-building and calling for the recognition of the social dimensions of this process, from consideration of the structures, policies and practices that shape it, through to the lived experience of individuals and households.Divided into four parts – Discourse, Rationale, Meaning; Values, Lifestyles, Imaginaries; Community and Identity; and Perspectives from Practice – the volume comes at a time of renewed focus from policy managers and practitioners, as well as prospective builders themselves, on self-build as a means for producing homes that are more stylised, affordable and appropriate for the specific needs of households. It responds to recent advances in housing and planning policy, while also bringing this into conversation with interdisciplinary perspectives from across the social sciences on housing, home and homemaking. In this way, the book seeks to update understandings of self-build and to account for housing as a distinctly social process.

Author : Adama Belemviré
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781447348443

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The Self-Build Experience by Adama Belemviré Pdf

This book investigates self-build housing for low and middle-income groups in urbanized areas in three different continents: South America (Brazil and Ecuador), Europe (the Netherlands, Albany, and Turkey) and Africa (Ethiopia, Egypt and Burkina Faso). Although the levels of social and economic prosperity and the related housing and urban context across these three continents are vastly different, there is a recurring central field of tension of governmental regulation vis- -vis societal self-regulation. The following question will be at the center of the book: How is the capacity for self-regulation in practices of self-build housing and facilities related to formal domains of governance and regulation and how can this relationship be optimized to create more socially sustainable forms of urbanization?

Author : Jon Broome,Brian Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1870098552

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The Self-Build Book by Jon Broome,Brian Richardson Pdf

Author : Field, Martin
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781447344414

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Creating Community-Led and Self-Build Homes by Field, Martin Pdf

In Creating Community-Led and Self-Build Homes, Martin Field explores the ways in which people and communities across the UK have been striving to create the homes and neighbourhood communities they want. Giving context to contemporary practices in the UK, the book examines ‘self-build housing’ and ‘community-led housing’, discussing the commonalities and distinctions between these in practice, and what could be learned from other initiatives across Europe. Individual methods and models of local practice are explored - including cohousing, cooperatives, community land trusts, empty homes and other intentional communities - and an examination is made of what has constrained such initiatives to date and how future policies and practice might be shaped.

Author : Kevin Daum,Janice Brewster,Peter Economy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-04
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781118054062

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Building Your Own Home For Dummies by Kevin Daum,Janice Brewster,Peter Economy Pdf

Keep construction on track with helpful checklists Turn your dream of a custom home into reality! Thinking about building your own home? This easy-to-follow guide shows you how to plan and build a beautiful home on any budget. From acquiring land to finding the best architect to overseeing the construction, you get lots of savvy tips on managing your new investment wisely -- and staying sane during the process! Discover how to: * Find the best homesite * Navigate the plan approval process * Obtain financing * Hire the right contractor * Cut design and construction costs * Avoid common mistakes

Author : Gerald Cole
Publisher : Crowood
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-30
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781847976284

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Build Your Own Brick House by Gerald Cole Pdf

Build Your Own Brick House follows the process of a self-build, using traditional brick and block techniques, enabling the self-builder to understand both the individual stages and the nature of the build as a whole. It takes a practical approach, focusing on the best use of time, abilities and budget, and on communicating more clearly and effectively with designers and tradespeople in order to make the build as smooth as possible.The book covers:The possibilities and practicalities of building in brick; Making a budget and finding/buying a plot; Designing with brick; Obtaining planning permission and Building Regulations approval; Employing both a main contractor and subcontractors. Each stage of the build is covered, from foundations through the walls, roof, interiors and services, up to completion of a project and trouble-shooting. An essential and practical manual for the self-builder, and packed with tips and tools to help the self-builder understand the individual stages and the nature of the build as a whole. Fully illustrated with 250 colour photographs. Gerald Cole is the consulting editor of SelfBuild & Design magazine and has completed his own self-build.