It is estimated that India needs well over 18 million affordable housing units. James Guthrie is an architect and president of the Miletus Group, an architectural design and prefabricated building manufacturer in Indiana. He designed a prototype to help address this need. It creates affordable homes that can be easily and efficiently built and shipped within India.
I made these renderings with him to illustrate the possibilities of this prototype, including
Create homes of different sizes and shapes
Conform to local aesthetics
Group homes together to create livable communities
Replacement for an old willow bird house (not built by me) that, due to water and weather and age, was falling apart.
The stand I was replacing was about 4′ high, providing a place for the tillandsias above the surrounding plants. Tillandsias like air movement so, like my tillandsia stand 1, this is built out of spaced wood slats. The spaces between the slats provide plenty of openings for the wind, and places to fit tillansias. It’s sort of a fruit crate with legs, built from redwood and cedar.
Images
.Digital model used to design the stand, prepare the materials list and build it
.Photos of the completed stand before being placed in the garden and receiving the tillandsias
.Stand in place, merged into our beautiful garden
A stand for some tillandsias. Tillandsias are air plants – they don’t need soil and can be set into just about any gap, branch or space. They also like air movement. This stand was made out of wood slats to provide lots of gaps to set them in and to allow the air to move through, and to use up more of my never-ending scrap pile.
I use digital modeling to lay out most of my carpentry projects. It’s very fast and a great tool to communicate with my client (in this case Lisa). Pictures of the model, the construction, placement on the potting shed sink/table and finally with the requisite plants and accessories.
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A prefabricated housing prototype for India
Miletus Group, an architectural design and prefabricated building manufacturer in Indiana. He designed a prototype to help address this need. It creates affordable homes that can be easily and efficiently built and shipped 
within India.
