Floor plan and environment design

In the previous posts one could see some of the concepts of the floor plan for the villas. As usual one keeps making small adjustments to find the perfect design. In the following pictures one can find the new concepts. In these drawings one can also see the swimming pool around and underneath the villa.
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Floor plan for one bedroom villa
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Floor plan for two bedroom villa
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Floor plan for three bedroom villa

Two and Three bedroom villas

To start with, only a one bedroom villa was designed. Now the design of this villa is finished, the design of the two and three bedroom villas has started. To be able to add one or more bedrooms and still keep the same amount of living space, a third module has to be added to the villa. On the outside, this module will be the same as the two modules that form the one bedroom villa. In the pictures below one can find the floor plans of the villas, which are chosen from a wide range of concepts.

With this pictures one has to keep in mind that:
- This space represents only the flat floor of the villa, not the slanting walls.
- The furniture is just there to give an impression of the space
- The lines in the drawings represent the sections which are in the window frames/walls

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..... Floor plan of one bedroom villa

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..... Floor plan of two bedroom villa

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..... Floor plan of three bedroom villa

Building site

In the mean time the first steps of preparing the actual building started as well. As one can see in the pictures below, all the vegetation and other unwanted material have been removed from the place, the first villa (mock-up) is going to be built. Next to this spot, an office is going to be made ready for the engineering work and a start is made with building a workshop out of bamboo. All the composite panels will be produced on the site in order to lower transport expanses and prevent damage.
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... Building location, cleaned.............................................Building location, with location of pool...

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... Workshop.......................................................................View...

Materials

The next step is to find the right materials. In order to make a fully composite shell structure, which is able to withstand high loads and environmental impact, one cannot use any general material. The sandwich structure used for the roof and the side walls will exist of two components; woven bamboo mats with epoxy resin facings and a foam core.

The bamboo mats will be woven in a traditional Balinese village near Ubud. Because labor is relatively cheap, all the mats will be woven by hand. A specific type of bamboo is used in order to create the right properties required for the panel. To make the material even stronger, only the best part of the bamboo is used. In this case the best part means the outer part of the bamboo, just below the ‘skin’. In this part the best vascular bundles exist with a high density.

The resin, that is going to be used for the bamboo laminates, is still an issue that needs some more research. To find the best resin, that is available in the area, some samples have been ordered and tests have to be done. One of the important criteria, next to the mechanical properties, is the pot life (time you have to apply it to your product, before it starts to cure and become thick) and the viscosity (how liquid the resin is and how easy to apply). After doing some tests (see pictures below) with several resins, these points turned out to be critical for a lot of resins. Therefore more tests are required.
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