Designing Homes

I've always wanted to live in a house that I built myself... And lately I've come to realize that it may be an inexpensive way to live. The idea is that I design, draft and build the house myself, cutting a third of the cost instantly (No need to pay designers, architects, engineers except maybe to give it a look over and no need to pay contractors to build it) And on top of that, because I'm designing the house, I have the option to build cheap, use inexpensive materials and methods.




Anyway, because I have this ambition, I decided to make a few sketches, which turned into a few renderings, which turned into a portfolio of four house designs with details:






The First is an Industrial Loft which I nicknamed "BrutHaus," in honor of it's strong Brutalist Flavor.













The Second began as a microhome and expanded to a rather large, semi-two story, loft house. I nicknamed it "Shadow Catcher" Because of the large, reinforced concrete walls at either end. (Concrete walls became canvases for the silhouettes of Atom Bomb victims in Hiroshima)











This one is the smallest, a Sub-Terranean Efficiency.





Here is the house I think I've settled on. Poured Concrete Foundation, Hybrid Block/Stick-built construction, Lots of glass but not too much, modern, concrete, simple.

Here it is in different Phases of Construction:

And Some finished Detail

It's a start anyway.

Be Well.

-NP