Russel House
The Russell House is a key precedent to my design as I have decided to also use a moving wall design to adapt to the seasons, to weather and to personal desire. In just six minutes the steel and wooden shell that covers the building can slide forward as a canopy, retract back to cover the annexe and yard but leave the bathroom open, or stop halfway covering the bathroom but revealing the conservatory.
The 20 ton mobile roof and wall enclosure is moved using four electric motors powered only by standard car batteries. It measures 52ft long, 20ft wide and 23ft high.
Although I am using this moving aspect, I believe it would be too much of a spectacle and would create too many problems if the wall were to extrude all the way to the side of the road, so when I design my house, I will only make it move in areas that would not interfere with the public. In terms of being able to adapt the walls to suit the seasons, I agree with.
The 20 ton mobile roof and wall enclosure is moved using four electric motors powered only by standard car batteries. It measures 52ft long, 20ft wide and 23ft high.
Although I am using this moving aspect, I believe it would be too much of a spectacle and would create too many problems if the wall were to extrude all the way to the side of the road, so when I design my house, I will only make it move in areas that would not interfere with the public. In terms of being able to adapt the walls to suit the seasons, I agree with.
Information and Images from: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1165867/How-man-built-sliding-house-adapt-changing-seasons.html
Cladding
CORTEN STEEL
To give my house a rustic and industrial feel, I am going to use corten steel as a cladding for the moving wall element as well as on patches of the façade, over the overall brick façade.
SUN SPACE - Glass
Solar space heating uses solar thermal energy to heat the space inside a building. Heating with solar energy can help you lower your home's heating bills and reduce your dependence on fossil fuels such as oil, propane, and natural gas.There are two general types of solar space heating systems, passive and active.
Passive Solar Heating with a Sun space
In homes that use passive solar energy for space heating, the whole house acts as a solar collector. This is done by positioning and designing the home and the landscape elements in such a way as to take optimal advantage of the solar energy that reaches the home.For example, having most of your home's windows facing south will enable your home to have maximum exposure to the Sun's radiant energy.
Storage of the solar heat that has been collected is possible using thermal mass. Thermal mass is material that can absorb the heat, store it, and then slowly release it after the sun sets. Materials such as brick walls, concrete slabs, and tile floors are examples of thermal mass.
Information from: http://www.solar-energy-at-home.com/solar-space-heating.html
Passive Solar Heating with a Sun space
In homes that use passive solar energy for space heating, the whole house acts as a solar collector. This is done by positioning and designing the home and the landscape elements in such a way as to take optimal advantage of the solar energy that reaches the home.For example, having most of your home's windows facing south will enable your home to have maximum exposure to the Sun's radiant energy.
Storage of the solar heat that has been collected is possible using thermal mass. Thermal mass is material that can absorb the heat, store it, and then slowly release it after the sun sets. Materials such as brick walls, concrete slabs, and tile floors are examples of thermal mass.
Information from: http://www.solar-energy-at-home.com/solar-space-heating.html
Based on the information collected on Sun Space and its advantages, I will make the entire back side of the house as well at most of the roofing space in to windows to capture the sunlight. My plot is a very convenient one in this respect, because it faces from West to East, therefore enabling a good opportunity to introduce windows. This orientation is also traditionally how an industrial building is positioned, so it accommodates to this aspect as well.
Industrial Architecture
INTERIOR
Having looked at an array of industrial architecture, specifically the interior; most seem to have an open plan layout, many of the spaces would be integrated in to one another, with only a slight separation to divide the spaces, like a column or a small extruding wall. However, the Interior wall cladding is stone/brick which is not very useful in terms of keeping the heat in, for my designs I will avoid using brick as an interior cladding option.
WINDOWS
Many of the windows of Industrial style buildings seem to have a wide and tall aspect to them, some have small ones but massively repeated to give the effect of one monolithic window. Another feature is the windows are repeated throughout the façade of the building. To keep my houses link to its historical context I will use this feature of large and repetitive windows.
ROOFS
When researching roofs I was looking for a way to announce that 'this building is an industrial building', I wanted to do this by incorporating the most typical of industrial roofs. And the one that was most interesting was the 'sawed tooth roof' - This one, to me, appeared to be the most aesthetically appealing, functionally more effective in terms of introducing sunlight in to the spaces and most evident of an industrial building.