Monday, February 6, 2012

Solar bottle lights in a Ugandan Kitchen

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Solar bottle lights in a Ugandan kitchen | 50W Plastic bottle daytime light
 


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http://www.sendacow.org.uk Helen from Uganda shows how she is trialling using 1.5 litre plastic water bottles as a way of lighting her dark kitchen in the daytime. She uses the bottles, filled with water and a little bleach, grouped in 3s over her cooking areas in her dark mud kitchen with grass roof. Techniques like this can reduce eye strain and the need for electric lighting where electricity is too expensive or not available.

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Comments:
  • You could make larger "windows" by grouping more bottles together. You could also embed them into the mud walls when the house is being constructed, to let in more light from the sides. Attaching cloth flaps (from old clothes or feed sacks) over these windows would serve as shutters if you don't want as much light coming in.
  • @ElveeKaye : Making "windows" embedded in the walls by grouping more bottles is a great idea. You could do colored water for "stained glass" windows! And as you suggested, if you want curtains, using feed sacks or old cloths - sewing together old t-shirts, for example - could make great curtains What a great idea. Can't wait to try this here in Guatemala.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Hotel Royal Mansour Mahdia (TUNISIE)



 at Hotel Royal Mansour Mahdia (TUNISIE).
Facebook · November 15, 2011
 

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This is going to be (one of) my rooms one of these days...

Plan of Notre Dame de Paris

Note: I didn't know this book existed! Can't wait to order it and start to work...

"In 1845, architect Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc undertook one of the greatest projects in the history of restoration: the 23-year refurbishment of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. This faithful reproduction of the restored murals, notable for their originality of design and for the soft and subtle harmony of their coloration, presents 60 full-page plates."

More: http://www.doverpublications.com/designsampler/0201/sample70a.htm


From: Designs and Ornaments from the Chapels of Notre Dame
Sampler Home
Excerpt 1  --  2  --  3  --  4  --  5  --  6  --  7
© Dover Publications. You can browse our complete catalog of over 9,000 titles at www.doverpublications.com or visit your local bookseller.




From: Designs and Ornaments from the Chapels of Notre Dame
Sampler Home
Excerpt 1  --  2  --  3  --  4  --  5  --  6  --  7
© Dover Publications. You can browse our complete catalog of over 9,000 titles at www.doverpublications.com or visit your local bookseller.

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Also see: Viollet-Le-Duc: The French Gothic Revival [Paperback]

Jean-Paul Midant (Author)

http://www.amazon.com/Viollet-Duc-French-Gothic-Revival/dp/2914199228/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t






Viollet-Le-Duc: The French Gothic Revival