The First Case Study Group

Design Your Own Eco Cabin

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Masterclass · Healthy Buildings Heat and air, keeping it dry, and materials. Your climate data sets your insulation targets and thickness, the right glass, and the months when condensation is most likely. Then the healthy choices for Week 6. At the end it becomes your Healthy Buildings Brief. ecocabin.landled.co/healthy Week 4 · Shape Your Cabin Your circles become a cabin: the shape of each space, the roof, the openings and the supports, each on its own tracing sheet over Sheet 4, then tested together. Rough sketches by hand, and one section. At the end it becomes your Cabin Concept. ecocabin.landled.co/shape Masterclass · Off-Grid Essentials Your cabin's loop: what it takes from the land and how it gives it back. Reduce first, pick your systems and mark them on Sheet 5, over Sheet 4. The sizing is for later, at your own pace. At the end it becomes your Systems Brief. ecocabin.landled.co/systems Week 3 · Map Your Flow Your day, the land around the cabin and the shelter each moment needs, drawn at 1:100 on Sheet 4. Do step 01 before the session if you can. At the end it becomes your Cabin Flow. ecocabin.landled.co/flow Field Guide · Land Regeneration 101 Take it with you when you walk your land, at your own pace. Water, soil and vegetation: what to look for, simple soil tests and the water features. At the end it becomes your Field Notes. ecocabin.landled.co/field Masterclass · Land Regeneration 101 Four short exercises on a third tracing sheet. We do them together in the masterclass, drawing one step at a time. At the end it becomes your Regeneration Brief. ecocabin.landled.co/regen Week 2 · Find Its Place Read your land, map what's fixed and what you'll shape, then find the one place your cabin belongs. We fill this in together in the session, alongside your tracing paper. At the end it becomes your Land Brief. ecocabin.landled.co/place Week 1 · Define Your Cabin Who the cabin is for, the day you want to live in it, and the spaces it needs. We fill this in together in the session. At the end it becomes your Cabin Brief. ecocabin.landled.co/brief Before week one Your details, your land, the legal documents you have, and the times that work for you. Do this one first, it's what I build week one from. ecocabin.landled.co/onboarding

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