Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Progress in designing

We made some progress in designing and hope the government (Obator) will accept our ideas beginning 2020.

In general:
All pyramids will be covered by classic (ceramic,) roof tiles on a steel construction. The roofs will get thick (10 and 7,5 cm) mineral wool isolation. Inside walls will be of so called ‘Metal stud’ and ‘Q-Con’ blocks. All doors 100 cm in width. The roofs will get at several places Velux roof windows. Most on the North side. Maybe the first in Thailand but we contacted Velux and it is possible to get them here including sun protection.
The top of all pyramid is of sun protected glass. For the main pyramid, looking up from the ground floor, it creates a square ‘window’ of 80 x 80 cm. For the smaller ones of about 50 x 50 cm.
These windows create daylight inside the pyramid, offer the possibility for ventilation and in the evening, with light coming from inside, shows the project from a distance.
As used in the countryside of Thailand we also will work with an have to install a wastewater treatment system with sceptic tanks.

Landplan idea:
I posted already this idea.

Guest rooms:
The floorplans of the separate pyramid guest rooms, size around 6.5 x 6.5 meter) were ready already about four weeks ago. Like it seems now one will be the mirrored concept of the other one.

They both have a sleep/living space and a bathroom with toilet, washstand and hot water shower.
The bed will be ‘queen size’. For a possible third person there is a bed (80 x 200) under the top roof. Accessible by a revolving stepladder. An idea I got studying in the eighties at the Fire Service College.  

They both have one aircon, two wall fans, mini-fridge, safe, and not to forget have a sunroof covered space to relax outside.

Main house:
The main house is a combination of one big pyramid (around 10,5 x 10,5 meters) connected with, on the first floor above the private car and bike park, a smaller pyramid (Private Buddha, yoga and meditation room) of around 6 x 6 meter. The house has three aircons.
The ground floor covers the main entrance, hallway, guest toilet, stairs to the first floors corridor and inside atrium and balcony, kitchen, living room, master bedroom with walk in closet and bathroom with toilet, washstand and hot water shower. The living room (at the South) has, covered by an isolated sunroof, a glass wall of about four meters including sliding doors to a terrace and faces rice fields and a provincial road (at about 700 meters).
The first floor covers a corridor with connection to the Buddha/yoga/meditation room, inside balcony and outside balcony (on the North) facing the pond, garden, labyrinth and guest rooms.   

Now we are working and have to work on:

# Façade views
# Cross sections
# Details
# Construction drawings concrete (foundation, columns, prestressed solid plank slabs, rebar, floors, concrete construction stabilizers.
# Construction drawings steel
# Construction drawing staircase
# Construction drawings wood.
# Metal stud and Q-Block design
# Water, electricity and sewage (wastewater system with sceptic tanks) drawings (no gas because country site Thailand is used to gas bottles).
# Main electricity line design (310 meters)
# Constructional and updated financial calculations
# etc..

So still a lot to do 😉. 

Frans Captijn


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