| Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (48 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in |
| Series |
Grand designs |
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Grand designs (Television program)
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| Summary |
"Darren Howarth and partner Adi Nortje live in Brighton in the UK, and are champions of sustainable living. They want to build an earth-sheltered home from recycled materials, based on ideas pioneered in the 1970s in New Mexico, but land prices and planning laws force them out of England to Brittany in northern France. Constructed mainly from old car tyres, this is a very low tech house requiring lots of low tech energy to build it. To keep costs down, Darren and Adi enlist the help of a bunch of unskilled volunteers to help build it, in exchange for teaching them the techniques. All very admirable, but with the main components of this build being rubbish and mud, there's a danger the house may end up looking like a hobbit house |
| Notes |
Off-air recording of ABC1 broadcast July 14, 2009. Copied under Part VA of the Copyright Act |
| Credits |
Written by Kevin McCloud; series producer and director: Madeleine Hall |
| Performer |
Presenter: Kevin McCloud |
| Notes |
No rating given |
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DVD |
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Available for Deakin University staff and students only |
| Subject |
Architecture, Domestic -- Brittany (France)
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Architecture, Domestic -- France -- Desigs and construction
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| Author |
McCloud, Kevin
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Hall, Madeleine
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ABC-TV (Australia)
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