MicroHouse April 2014 Workshop

Dates

Friday, April 18, 2014 at 6:30 PM - Wednesday, April 23, 2014 at 6:30 PM (MDT) Maysville, MO

List of Participants Logs

• Naiomi_log
• Tyler Ross Log
• Cody Harrison Log

Overview

This 5-day workshop empowers participants to create their own MicroHouse through hands-on, experiential training reinforced by conceptual learning in basic sustainable design. The central activity of the workshop is the construction of a MicroHouse shell using open source equipment including a tractor, soil pulverizer, and brick press. Extreme manufacturing concepts of parallel processing and prefabrication are applied to achieve rapid on-site assembly.  Philosophy of open source development is also emphasized, and the participants become more than just builders, they become active collaborators in the MicroHouse evolution.

A weekender option exists for those interested in getting an introduction to the ideas of open development and sustainable design but do not have the time for the full, immersive experience.

Learning Outcomes

• Design
  • fundamentals of passive solar design and natural ventilation
  • building envelope basics and importance of detailing
  • understanding of thermal mass and insulation in relation to performance
  • open source development philosophy
  • hand-sketching basics

• Construction
  • understanding and applied safe use of basic construction tools
  • CEB construction techniques
  • basic framing methods
  • installation of doors and windows
  • basics of electrical work
  • parallel processing for rapid building

• Documentation
  • using Trovebox and Dozuki for instruction manual creation
  • using and adding to the Development Board
  • Sketchup basics

Typical Daily Schedule

8:00am Breakfast 8:45am Morning Meeting 9:30am Build Session 12:30am Lunch 1:30pm Build Session 5:30pm Dinner 7:00pm Some Days - Evening Lecture/Session ·