Okay, okay… so maybe you’ve had enough already, but I just can’t get enough of the 2011 exhibit at the MOMA in NYC titled “Small Scale, Big Change.” This exhibit hosted Rural Studios work, handmade architecture in Burkina Faso and Bangladesh to urban scale projects in Venezuela! Take a look, I promise it’s worth every [...]
Howdy Build Lightly readers – Check out this ongoing collaboration of student-led social design/build projects between Portland State and UT Austin, called BaSiC Initiative. Let’s hear more about them from their website: The BaSiC Initiative is a collaboration of faculty and students from Portland State University and University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture. [...]
Hola Build Lightly crew! Here’s a link to an awesome Prefab housing company called Reclaimed Space specializing in reclaimed materials. Their story goes like this: The Reclaimed Space concept all began in 2007 as a special project for Austin-based DIRTCO Construction. Between jobs, DIRTCO founder, rancher and environmentalist Tracen Gardner began constructing a portable building using [...]
Aloha Builders… Just checking in with a couple of fantastic updates for the Build Lightly Studio for the end of 2011! We’ve been doing some work in Kalihi Valley and abroad… sorry for the lengthy post, but it’s well worth it. La Introducción de Build Lightly MX! Through the help of Joel Valdez Martinez and [...]
This FRIDAY 8/19 is guaranteed to be a Great Night! Jordan Cayanan and Deirdre Zoder will be presenting Tutu’s Hale in 20 SECONDS for 20 SLIDES If you haven’t yet made it out to a Petcha Kucha Night you should see for yourself what happens when the artists and designers of Honolulu let their imaginations [...]
Since the Ribbon Cutting ceremony for Tutu’s Hale on May 14, 2011, Joel Martinez Valdez, Luisa Fernanda Rodriguez, and Miriam Gee of Urban Works Inc. have been hard at work compiling images from Spring 2011 to complete the Build Lightly Studio Photojournal! After sorting and editing tens of thousands of images from the past year, [...]
April 30, 2011 What a super productive weekend. With major deadline, finals, presentations, the Build Lightly crew still finds ways to do all multiple task all at once. Here is the run down of what happened on Saturday, the shear wall and windows were installed (good job and thank you to Dane, Kehau, and Gary [...]
Thanks to all of our awesome volunteers last week from the School of Architecture at UH Manoa, the AIA, USGBC Hawaii, and other members of the community in Kalihi for coming out to Ho’oulu ‘Aina to help us finish up Tutu’s Hale -the building formerly known as the bunkhouse. With all of the volunteer hours, [...]
With the hot humid Hawaii sun bearing down, clear skies above , tools setup, volunteers and the design build crew on time another work day for the Ho’oulu Bunkhouse Project was on. Saturdays are typically longer days of labor for the build lightly crew therefore the days task included painting the remaining exterior walls, completing the front deck, finishing the bathroom, leveling the [...]
The semester is coming close to the end and we have just a few weeks to finish our Design/Build project. Deadlines need to be met and we all feel the pressure to make the project successful. Luckily for us we have committed Architects/teachers, students, volunteers, and mother earth on our side to lead us to [...]
