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The Sheep Shed

The Sheep Shed
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Sheep aren’t indigenous to Australia but their rearing and shearing factors large in Australian history and culture. True, sheep didn’t turn into ecological nightmares like starlings, rabbits, camels, cane toads and such but still, they don’t touch the ground lightly. They graze much closer than cattle and overgrazing by sheep has been causing soil erosion and denuding landscapes around the world […]

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Advance of the Sheds

Advance of the Sheds
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For every force there is an equal and opposite reaction. As the level of amenity, let alone luxury, people can reasonably aspire to steadily lessens, the market for Architecture must continually expand downwards by appropriating materials, configurations and concepts formerly the realm of Building. The absence of applied finishes occurs in vernacular buildings as the expedient use of resources […]

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Sheds Without Shame

Sheds Without Shame
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And Peter Behrens saw the shed was naked so he covered it up.  And so the shed was made to feel shame. Taking something virtuous and forcing it to wear an aesthetic statement of questionable value is the original sin of architecture, its genesis. It’s as if architecture loves to see good ideas killed through a process of aestheticisation – the […]

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Architecture Myths #11: Lowly Building Types

Architecture Myths #11: Lowly Building Types
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Peter Behrens supposedly had the idea first – take a lowly building type and “elevate” it to Architecture. 1909 hmm. I’m surprised it wasn’t earlier. By 1909, wealthy landowners had all but died out, or were soon about to. The smart money would have been on wealthy industrialists – especially ones who produced light bulbs, […]

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Green Computing and the Smart Shed

Green Computing and the Smart Shed
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It’s been said before. The microprocessor is not trying to look beautiful. BECAUSE OF THIS, microprocessors have had the exponential performance increases Moore’s Law describes. Computer scientists are now conceiving of exascale computing systems capable of at least one exaflops which is one thousand petaflops or one quintillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000) floating point operations per second. One of the largest challenges they face concerns power […]

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The Shed is Not Trying to Look Beautiful #1

The Shed is Not Trying to Look Beautiful #1
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The house is aligned east-west so the balcony on the south side probably does all the right things regarding solar gain. If not, it’s nothing a few bamboo blinds won’t fix. Or should we even care? In Japan they’re supposed to enjoy living with the seasons aren’t they? Just the other side of the mountain […]