A minimal expansible garden workshop
This projects is an attempt to build up a minimal lightweight workshop, to house tools and to work on small projects, with the capacity to extend, following a proper design intention, by modularity, mechanical ghizmos or tensile structures. The general idea is to design a minimal toolshed that transforms/morphs/rotates and unfolds into a proper indoor/outdoor workshop. All this, considering the optimal work environment for tools and raw materials (e.g. humidity), airflows, overall dimensions, feasability, material's aging and costs.
1) Small indoor workspace (2.5mx 2.5m) consisting of shelvings for tools, a wall workbench, air circulation unit (optional), storage box.
2) capacity to expand the roofed space and occupy a larger area 2 to three times by frame (through roof expansion / tensile structures / mobile partitions ) and work around a proper worktable. This is mostly due to local (italian) regulations: there are strict constraints on what defines a building, ergo built volumes. Thus the project will follow law constraints in order not to results as an additional new construction.
3) At least one removable/sliding/rotating partition in order to work on big sizes, circulate air
4) Mechanical air extraction or adequate natural ventilation system.
1) Solar energy panels for lightning and/or for charging tools
2) Optional: Traditional Grid connection for power tools
Cost limit capped at 5000 €
Cost, performance and origin of the materials will be taken highly in account. In order to stay in a 5k price cap we'll need to optimize the geometries and the tech used in order to protect the elements from the weather wear. Standardization of the joints/frames is another goal. Ideally we'd like to "assemble" as many completed pieces on site as possible. Transparent partitions will be an issue, since glass will be too expensive to be employed and Polycarbonate sheets performance are not stellar concerning temperature transmission and weathering.
-Reference- Rpbw urban regeneration workshop
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V0.1 - Oct 2022 - Project start - Concept Phase
V0.3 - Feb 2023 - Concept definition
V0.7 - May 2023 - Prototype Phase
V.0.8 - V.1.0 - Summer 2023 - Build Phase - Release
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Open_Workshop is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which means that the design can be shared, copied and build upon without asking permission. The only condition is that you credit the original work to GIB, and to contact us if you make any changes/improvements to the design.
Project Owner : GIB
Open_Workshop Design : Giorgio Gibiino