#studio bark

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Nick Newman helped design a modular construction system so anyone with just a mallet and a drill can build their own home. Since co-founding U-Build in 2020, he has built— and watched others build— furniture, garden sheds, tiny homes, and full-sized houses, so it makes sense he’d use the flat-pack box system to turn the company work van into his full-time home.

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According to Newman, "the U-Build construction system is something like if IKEA and LEGO had a baby. So, it's these big boxes that can be assembled with a mallet and a screwdriver. Effectively, you start out with your individual panels, which are cut with precision using a CNC machine, and it's designed with this kind of locking system so you can basically put the pieces together: it would always be on the 'right' configuration." Watch it at 25:45.

[Video timeline]

— Nick Newman out in London on his electric campervan: 00:10

— Explaining EV's lack of congestion charge in London: 00:20

— Charging the van in central London: 00:50

— Thunderstorm: 2:20

— Stealth setup: 03:00

— EV van conversion into vanlife camper: 3:30

— Conversion with U-Build boxes ("building blocks") timelapse: 3:42

— Explanation of a U-Build minimum unit of construction, the box: 03:50

— Kirsten interviews Nick Newman: 04:20

— U-Build's modularity put to the test inside a van: 05:10

— Locking system for drawers (inspired by the ones on commercial aircraft): 06:30 and 14:50

— Festival build out of U-Build blocks: 07:15

— Sink: 0832

— Current van living interior: 11:30

— Adapting working straps to vanlife: 12:00

— Folding clothes: 13:05

— Hammock setup: 19:28

— At Stroud, Gloucestershire: 20:45

— U-Build's workshop under construction on an old empty factory: 21:30

— Describing U-Build as a self-build system: 25:45

— On using empty buildings: 22:10

— "People could stay in a house like this for really cheap": 22:15

— Warehouse spaces to solve housing emergencies? 22:30

— Out in Herefordshire: 36:28

— Student-built house with U-Build: 36:35

He started using the fully-electric Sprinter van as a temporary home while on overnight work trips. The U-Build system involves assembling CNC-cut, formaldehyde-free plywood boxes as building blocks which then bolt together to create a rigid frame for a structure.

The conversion cost him less than £2,000 (about $2,400, or €2,300). The system is entirely demountable, so the boxes can be reused over and over: it was easy for Newman to take the boxes he was working with daily and rearrange them in the van to build a bed, kitchen (U-Scrub), storage, and toilet (U-Poo).

Newman left a shared warehouse where he was paying £800 for a tiny, windowless bedroom for vanlife in central London, and because the van is electric, he doesn’t pay congestion charges (£15/day). He has tricked out the van to appear in drive mode so he can use the vehicle’s battery and air conditioning and heating while parked.

The U-Build (and Studio Bark) team recently bought an abandoned warehouse in Stroud (Gloucestershire) for less than the price of a tiny studio in London. While they decide what to do with the space, they have installed U-Build dwellings (built in a half day) to use as bedrooms and private offices. It’s the same model as the SHED Project, where they worked with a London-based guardian company to provide quick-build homes from U-Build kits to provide housing for those in need in exchange for building surveillance.

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[jeroenapers]

“En wat is het basismateriaal van vandaag? Het basismateriaal voor vandaag is.... kurk.“

De Cork Studio, een bijna volledig uit kurk opgetrokken tuingebouw, is gebouwd als prototype voor een gebouw dat volledig kan worden gerecycled, hergebruikt of gecomposteerd. Om de afhankelijkheid van ongezonde materialen voor eenmalig gebruik aan te kaarten in de architectuurindustrie, heeft Studio Bark geprobeerd te laten zien hoe je één milieuvriendelijk basismateriaal kan gebruiken om de volledige bouwschil te maken. Na een reeks experimenten waarbij de weerstand tegen water, vuur en slijtage werd getest, kwamen ze op kurk uit. Een sterk, duurzaam materiaal dat rechtstreeks uit de schors van de kurkeik wordt geoogst.

“Altijd van je af snijden!”

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Studio Barkがデザインした、誰でも什器や住宅の壁がセルフビルドできるシステム「U-Build」(dezeen) Studio Bark's flat-pack U-build system lets anyone self-build (dezeen)

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Studio Bark designed Water Farm House in United Kingdom -- via ArchDaily

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U-Build helps you design and build your own customisable modular buildings, including garden studios, garden rooms, garden offices, meeting pods, music rooms and recording studios. 1.) We deliver to your door 2.) You assemble with our sumpport 3.) You create your own beautiful spaces.

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Studio Bark - https://ift.tt/2pmhKfl

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Studio Barkがデザインしたセルフビルドシステム「U-Build system」を使用して建てられたイギリス、エセックスの住宅 (dezeen) Studio Bark's first flat-pack U-build system used for a home extension in Essex (dezeen)