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This is my house just after the mass masonry phase was completed. Note that it’s already architecture.. with only two materialsーbrick and mortar. One of eight cottages in The Borough pocket neighborhood; a micro village in the DPZ town of Carlton Landing, Oklahoma.
This is the mass wall building model concept we’ve been developing since 2011:
This is the same house as it stands completed today. I live here with my wife, 3 kids, a dog, 8 chickens, 5 guineas and a rabbit.
View of the micro village of eight structural brick cottages:
8 cottages, parking, common green with community fire pit = 1/3 of an acre.
Living:
Kitchen:
Kids three tier bunk landing with tent lofts:
Master:
Morsø wood stove:
Various views:
Masonry phase of one of the Borough cottages completed by 10 Notre Dame Architecture students (5 of them girls) and three apprentices in 14 days:
My secret garden:
The cottage mirroring my own:
Of the earth begets of the earth:
The space between:
The first project we did for Carlton Landing, Oklahoma. This was the third of the initial five R & D projects, that took place over a five year period, where a base line of best practices for our mass wall model were being determined.
A journeyman’s first solo project after finishing a two year apprenticeship: (this is also in Carlton Landing)
Porch swing addition:
One of our Artist cottages: (800 sq ft)
That space between again:
Wishing this wasn’t just a joke for Grant:
Back door:
Burrow:
Backyard farm:
Bike shed addition:
Residue:
These walls are a nominal 12” thick using repurposed 100+ year old units. Triple wythe, common bond, structural, load bearing, clay brick masonry:
