"Architect George Clarke explores the extraordinary world of small builds, where people turn tiny spaces into the most incredible places to live, work and play. He even tries making a few of his own."
One episode features HiveHaus, a new modular building concept developed by Barry Jackson.
The Hivehaus is suitable for a wide variety of environments, and is based on the hexagonal honeycomb structures built by bees. The compact living space is constructed from identically proportioned ‘cells’ that can be joined together by any of their six sides to create a connected cluster or ‘hive’. This system offers a high level of flexibility and enables a bespoke expansion of the house as it grows with the individual users requirements. Each piece has an internal floor area of 9.3m2 and is designed to be used as a specific work/live space. i.e. office, lounge, kitchen, bedroom or bathroom cells all have uniform internal partition walls (with or without pocket doors) that can be added or removed as needed.
Another episode featured a caravan that gets turned into a travelling theatre called The Wonderful World of Mr E. "Filled with weird and wonderful artefacts, the travelling show featuring puppets, music, clowning and story-telling, and entertains children at arts festivals across the country, teaching them about history and popular culture through the interactive props that are in the caravan."
Throughout the second series, George Clarke works on his own project, an ambitious, accessible, multi-functional tree house within the Calvert Trust, an outward bound activities centre for families with disabilities.
The way in which the furniture is contained within the treehouse is incredibly neat and space efficient. This wall panel contains cut out shapes that slot together to form seats, and a pull- down bed.
Opening some of the panels within this wall forms a table, shelving units and another bed.
Read more at
http://www.practicalcaravan.com/blog/29587-amazing-spaces-caravan-theatre#4Xdrq2sqOizhOJFh.99
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/george-clarkes-amazing-spaces/episode-guide/series-2/
http://www.hivehaus.co.uk
http://skyden.kielder.co.uk
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Thanks for this write up on series two. Here is what I don’t understand: his treehouse project is supposed to be accessible to all, but all I see leading up to the top level is a ton of stairs. They don’t even try to explain it. An aerial shot reveals ramps to level one and two, but I can’t see how the triangle at top is accessible. Did I miss something?
Thanks for this write up on series two. Here is what I don’t understand: his treehouse project is supposed to be accessible to all, but all I see leading up to the top level is a ton of stairs. They don’t even try to explain it. An aerial shot reveals ramps to level one and two, but I can’t see how the triangle at top is accessible. Did I miss something?
Thanks for this write up on series two. Here is what I don’t understand: his treehouse project is supposed to be accessible to all, but all I see leading up to the top level is a ton of stairs. They don’t even try to explain it. An aerial shot reveals ramps to level one and two, but I can’t see how the triangle at top is accessible. Did I miss something?
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